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Sunrise in Madang, Papua New Guinea " Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) Hope is a choice not a feeling. Hope is a gift, not something you can muster up in your own strength. Today I realized something. The difference between the voice of my shepherd, Jesus, and my enemy, Satan. My enemy says, "what will you do when those things you most fear happen?" My shepherd asks, "will you trust me if the things you most fear happen?" That's a big difference. I was reading Hebrews and talking with a group of ladies this week about Abraham when God asked him to sacrifice his only son Isaac. Now we have the benefit of knowing the end of the story -- where God breaks in at the last minute to tell Abraham not to sacrifice his son because He saw that Abraham would be obedient no matter what -- but Abraham didn't. For all he knew he was really going to have to ...

Click Here For the Ukarumpa Clinic Video Hey My Friends, I may be here in the USA at the moment by my heart, prayers and thoughts are never far from the work in Papua New Guinea (PNG). In fact, even this week I've been emailing with one of my Papua New Guinean friends who works in the clinic. We've been chatting back and forth so that I can "keep my finger on the pulse"(not sure if pun is intended there, but....) of how things are going at the clinic and so that I can pray for the work going on there. It's a vibrant clinic serving both my fellow Wycliffe missionaries, missionaries from other organization, commercial patients and Papua New Guineans. It's a wonderful place to work and I love staying connected with them even while I'm here. Many of you have asked what the clinic is like. I thought about trying to describe it to you but my friends in Ukarumpa (the location of the clinic in the Eastern Highlands Province of PNG) have beat me to the pun...