Pic: My brother, sister-in-law and nephew arriving in Papua New Guinea as missionaries with New Tribes Mission for the first time.
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Part 8 is a summary of ways to encourage missionaries. I would normally print this out to give [...]

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Two nights ago we had a blackout. It lasted for about three hours and meant that we couldn’t do anything much. It was still quite warm (went from 6pm to 9pm) so we had to just sweat it out. It’s amazing how technology keeps you awake at night, I was almost falling asleep around 9pm, [...]

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The theme for Photo Friday last week was ‘Masculine’ so here’s my entry. This is Nick, he’s a Pastor in a church in Papua New Guinea and he’s tending his garden here.

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The theme last Friday was ‘tea’ so here’s my entry. This is more related to afternoon tea and is titled ‘rock cakes’ done in oil on canvas.

This is the initial sketch for the painting.

This was what I painted it from.

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Took this shot on the day we all went to the national park. We were surrounded by 6 dive bombing Kookaburras which, now that I think of it, was appropriate as we were sitting in a group having a session about Spiritual Warfare!

Most of the week however we were inside and Kezi spent a lot [...]

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As it often happens whenever someone goes away for more than a couple of days, a couple of things ‘went wrong’ while we were away.
Firstly our main computer stopped working which would have been ok except that I always record certain TV shows to send up to my family in Papua New Guinea. Turns out [...]

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Flew home on Saturday and all went well. Kezi wasn’t bothered by the plane at all which is great. She is such a good bubby. We are both exhausted though as it was a full on week with a lot of information given to us about our new role. It was a real amazing thing [...]

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I’ve just had my first opportunity to get onto the web so I thought I’d do a quick post. Been in Sydney since Wednesday last week and it’s been pretty full on but really great. We’re enjoying the meetings we’re having with SIM which is our orientation into our new role. Sydney weather hasn’t been [...]

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Tomorrow we fly to Sydney (for those non-Perthies it’s around a 4hr flight) and it will be Keziah’s first plane trip. We’re going there to do orientatin for our new roles with SIM. I’m really looking forward to it as we will get to meet the other State Ministry Directors for SA, Tas, Qld, NSW [...]

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Today I’ve been very busy printing out invitations and envelopes to send to almost 400 people. The invitations are for our commissioning service which is to be held on March 11th at 3.30pm at the Foothills Church of Christ. This is a commissioning into our new roles as the SIM WA State Ministry Directors. If [...]

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