June Newsletter

My June newsletter is up and available! You can click here to read it or head over to the Newsletters tab if you want to catch up on any letters you've missed. 

December Newsletter and Exciting News!

Merry Christmas, everyone! I've been enjoying getting into the Christmas spirit for the last few weeks (yes, I am "one of those people" who put up their Christmas decorations weeks before Thanksgiving!). I love Christmas, and I especially love having a green Christmas--heresy, I know, coming from someone who spent the first 26 or so years of her life in northern Wisconsin--but I just don't love the cold and wet and all the shoveling!

Anyways, my December newsletter is ready for your reading enjoyment, including some very exciting news! You can click here to read it, or head over to the Newsletters tab and click the link for December 2018.

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas! 

August Newsletter

It's been several weeks of craziness, but the first term of school is officially more than half over! And I even managed to carve out time to write a newsletter AND get it sent out before the next month arrives...exciting stuff, folks! 😊 You can click here to read my newsletter, or, if you've missed a newsletter or two, you can hop over to the Newsletter page (click the tab right above where you're reading right now) and catch up on what's going on! 

I'm Not in Kansas (or Wisconsin) Anymore!

Any place that you visit (or move to) will have little quirks—things that are different than you’re used to. Ukarumpa is no exception to this; there are several things that, when I first arrived, took a while to get used to. After three years of living in Ukarumpa, being in the US for several months and not using or needing these things was even more odd!

June Newsletter

On the way to join in the celebration!

I'm back in Ukarumpa and school starts up soon (just over two weeks!). A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go out to a village and celebrate the dedication of the revised New Testament and five newly translated Old Testament books in the Binumarien tok ples (heart language). You can click here to read this month's newsletter and see some photos from the dedication.

The Bare Necessities

When I returned from furlough a few weeks ago, I noticed that there were a few things missing from my house (or that I had missed during furlough) that I considered necessary or life (or just to save my sanity!) here in Papua New Guinea (PNG). I wrote a similar blog post way back when I first arrived in PNG in 2014 (you can read it here), but that post was based more on village living than being in Ukarumpa, which is where I live now (and have lived for most of the last four years).

Just Another Day...

Most days in Ukarumpa are fairly routine (or as routine as they can be when you're a teacher and work with children). However, occasionally something out of the ordinary happens--like when a baby pig gets onto the high school campus.

 

Shortly after the pig was spotted, there was a chase and the pig was caught by a student. (Missionary kids (MKs) are very handy people to have around when a pig gets loose at your school.) The pig's photo is now posted on the community message board, with instructions as to whom to call to reclaim the pig. You just can't make this stuff up, people!