Lower Ramu Bible Translation Ministry

Thursday started as most days do, working through a pot of coffee while tackling the accumulation of email that came in during the night.  That all changed at 8:30 when the phone rang.  It was our lawyers in Lae informing me that we (the PNG branch) had a court case on the docket for 9:30.    Back [...]

By some strange coincidence, my last blog post (way back in May) was about the difficulty that some people go through to obtain medical care, any medical care, in PNG.  It was the story about a man who journeyed for days to get his young niece to a clinic in order to get treatment for [...]

It is Monday morning, 10 AM.  Monday’s are always a bit crazy as it seems like there is always a backlog of things to do that have accumulated during the weekend.  For some reason this Monday seems a bit crazier than normal.  Sometimes people ask me what I do in this job and I often [...]

Culture stress is seldom caused by the big stuff; culture stress is in the details. Most cultures are pretty much alike when it comes to the big stuff. Don’t murder anyone or steal something and you have a fairly good chance most places of evading a prison term. Where cultures diverge is in the details. [...]