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 [...]

Following is an excerpt from Monday’s edition of The National describing the ordeal one man went through to get health care for his injured niece.  It is hard to imagine having to go through all that but this is often the norm in the more remote areas of PNG.   And in reality the little girl [...]

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 [...]

On Monday I re-installed the prop shaft and reconnected all the bits and pieces.   Everything went back together about as easily as it had come out.  Then I sanded the areas that had been patched and gave those areas a coat of bottom paint.  The next day I and two of the PBT workmen gave [...]