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02
Jun
Elliot sitting on Wewak's seawall in Papua New Guinea.

Simple Solutions Versus Wild Ambition

Mechanics without pilot licenses are a bit like penguins. We’re basically flightless birds. This is why we don’t care much about the weather. Pilots do.
8 min read
24
Mar
Anyone In Their Right Minds Know That Animals Don't Use Toilets

Anyone In Their Right Minds Know That Animals Don't Use Toilets

We eat antibiotics like Tic-Tacs, we try not to curse the world, and Elliot gets new underwear.
8 min read
01
Jan
Our First Tropical Christmas

Our First Tropical Christmas

Sweating while caroling and other strange ways to spend Christmas.
11 min read
01
Jan
Cessna 206 amphibious floatplane parked next to a village house in Papua New Guinea.

Video: Village Hopping In A Floatplane In Papua New Guinea

Sometimes throwing things out of an airplane can help advance the Gospel.
1 min read
26
Nov
Samaritan Aviation attaching floats to a Cessna amphibious missionary float plane in Papua New Guinea

Airplane In A Box

Even the most stoic mechanic will leap around and shout like a spirit-filled Pentecostal if the airplane goes down when it was supposed to go up.
6 min read
01
Nov
Patient being unloaded from mission aviation floatplane in Papua New Guinea.

Dying From Boredom Is Entirely Preventable

It's disheartening to have a patient heal from tuberculosis or some other horrible condition only to die from boredom a week later.
8 min read
29
Oct
Common Cockroaches & Exotic Marsupials

Common Cockroaches & Exotic Marsupials

It can be an unsettling transition to go from sipping coffee to having a marsupial in your hair without any time to get used to the idea.
10 min read
22
Oct
Missionary family in Papua New Guinea

Do Fish Even Sting People?

Because of the sun’s death rays we’ve been spending a lot of time at the ocean.
9 min read
09
Sep
Video: Ride Along On A Visit To The Haus Sik

Video: Ride Along On A Visit To The Haus Sik

After we fly patients in, we all take turns going and visiting them. Come with our family on a trip to the local "Haus Sik."
1 min read
13
Aug
Death Warmed Over is Better Than Death Served Cold, But It's Still Worrisome.

Death Warmed Over is Better Than Death Served Cold, But It's Still Worrisome.

Janice picks up some strange tropical disease and Adi gets stitches which causes me to muse about suffering and its effects.
9 min read