Maherevai

Maherevai

We recently started two English clubs in our little town of Papara, drawing exclusively from the children who had attended the Operation Christmas Child evangelistic outreach in our yard last month (September, 2022).  By our second meetings, other children had...
Magali: Our First Ministry Partner in French Polynesia

Magali: Our First Ministry Partner in French Polynesia

Once or twice a month we visit Magali and a small group of believers on the island of Moorea, across from Tahiti. Magali’s house is where I first taught a Bible lesson in French Polynesia, back in 2017.    Magali comes from the remote Marquesas Islands,...
Hana: Serving God in Papara

Hana: Serving God in Papara

I first met Hana in October 2021. We were all unloading nearly 4500 boxes filled with shoeboxes from Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child. We had nine shipping containers full of 62,000 shoeboxes each representing  the greatest gift of all time, ...
Help Needed: Tahitian Digital Bible Project

Help Needed: Tahitian Digital Bible Project

I would deeply appreciate your help.  French Polynesia has only one digital version of a Bible in Tahitian.  That happens to be the New World Translation from the Jehovah’s Witnesses.  I DETEST this situation. Although we are involved in a...
A Year of Growth, A Year of Blessing

A Year of Growth, A Year of Blessing

A year ago today, we arrived in French Polynesia with our 8 suitcases.  The country was in full COVID lockdown. We had heard there were checkpoints manned by the National Police on the main route toward our (sight unseen) rental home, and we were not completely...