CALLED to Papua New Guinea

We are in our last week of service at Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, and we remain deeply grateful to many of you who have given financially toward our missions work. With surplus funding for this trip we have kept our ear to the ground for opportunities to invest into people or programs supporting the ongoing work of ministry in PNG. Today we came face to face with the perfect vessel for Kingdom investment - namely in the person of Elias Gaijamb . The Highlands of Middle Ramu Elias is a young man from the highlands of Middle Ramu attending seminary at the Tuman campus of MNBC (Melanesian Nazarene Bible College), which is just a few minutes drive from where we've been working at Kudjip. The Nazarene church has had a major influence in Middle Ramu, and it is now one of the strongest Districts in the Melanesian Region. There are no roads to this District, necessitating either an airplane ride or a few days hard hiking to get in or out. Elias grew up with both his parents in ministry, and ...

With only a couple weeks left on Station, I am eager to make the most of every moment. There are certainly practical measures I exercise every day to see good medical outcomes, like putting my Tok Pisin to the test to go past surface level history and invest extra time to find the real source of my patients' problems. And there are also disciplines in self-awareness to recognize when no amount of my language effort or medical knowledge is sufficient for a given case, so I waste no time in seeking out Dr Mark or Dr Ben for guidance. But beyond the practical steps to serve the insanely diverse medical needs here, I have increasingly enjoyed the regular application of scripture into my patient's Spiritual care.  On a number of occasions before we left the US, I spent some quiet evenings cross-referencing my English NIV with my "Buk Baibel". This was done in part to exercise my reading comprehension of Tok Pisin, but also with the express purpose of bookmarking a number o...

A message from Rachel:  He Is Risen!  Easter greetings from Papua New Guinea! We pray that you all feel the LIGHT of Jesus this weekend as you reflect on His uncontainable, unconditional, and unshakeable Love for YOU!  " In Him is life, and that life is the light of all mankind.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not (and will not) overcome it." - John 1:4-5 We have had a busy Easter weekend here at Kudjip, and it was an honor to celebrate Christ's Resurrection alongside the Kingdom warriors (full-time missionaries) who serve here.   Scroll down for a recap in pictures and video.  FRIDAY Friday was a school holiday here, so we had lots of friends to play with.  Ted was on-call Friday, but managed to do lots of fun things with the kiddos in-between trips to the ER: 1 - Homemade weaponry .... because we're Hendersons! 😆 2 - Early morning acrobatics  3 - A visit to the gym with some giggly free-weights 4 - Solomon double-c...

Dear reader, greetings to you from Papua New Guinea on this Holy Week before Easter. We are half way through our time here at Kudjip Station and the Lord continues to fill our cup to overflowing every day with enriching experiences and relational opportunities. Among many challenges we face every day, there are those in which we find success (praise God!), those in which we fail to see fruit born but know the Lord is yet at work, and others lingering between the two extremes in which we desire to see impact for the Kingdom but do not yet know how to play a part. For my time working on the Pediatric Ward, the frequent admissions for severe malnutrition and consequential disease and death continues to spur my desire to help find a solution.  Baby Setina Dominick admitted last week with marasmus (severe malnutrition) being measured on the length board I made in 2015 when we lived at Kudjip for one year. She died on the Pediatric Ward early this morning. Malnutrition and growth stuntin...