We spent 8 years living in a village in Papua Niugini. It wasn’t remote by Niugini standards, but was totally isolated by Australian ones. There was no electricity, running water, sanitation, hospital, ambulance service, police, or post office. The biggest store was smaller than a typical market stand on a Saturday morning. The village was really just a series of houses made from bamboo and grass, with a creek nearby, surrounded by gardens for food. But the remoteness, isolat

I was a married with 2 kids before I ever heard a sermon on being a ‘Proverbs 31 Woman’. I didn’t know what the preacher was talking about, not that I had never read the passage, I just never understood it to be something women thought they should aspire to. Not long later my husband jokingly said something about me trying to be more like a Proverbs 31 woman. I (not so) jokingly replied, that seeing her husband provided her with servants, when he provided me with some, I woul

If I asked you to name some missionaries in the New Testament, what would your answer be? Paul, Peter, Timothy. Maybe if you really thought about it you would include Titus, Luke, Silas, and Barnabas. Maybe you’d even get a few more. But did you know that the Bible names over 30 different men and women doing some form of short or long-term missionary work? Over 30 men and women traveling throughout the Mediterranean and beyond for the sake of the gospel: by name; and there ar