Finding Your Quest

Finding Your Quest

 

Finding Your Quest

A Quest, by the medieval definition is: an expedition made by a knight to accomplish a prescribed task. There is a great amount of adventure, daring and excitement in that short definition, and in the depths of every person there is a desire to take a quest. Quests, are not, specifically, all the same, but each person has one. We, as Christians, know we have a Quest given by the King of Kings (Mark 16:15), but He sends each of us out, in different capacities, to accomplish the same goal. Do you know what your Quest is? Are you living your Quest?  

People of the Trees: Journey to the Korowai - Part 3

People of the Trees: Journey to the Korowai - Part 3

Interior Papua, Indonesia:  As we set off for another day of marching in the flooded forest, we think about how the days in the jungle changes a person’s perspective.  In our own experiences, we notice that there is an immediate shift of focus that becomes more simplistic.  We awaken each day, march in the prehistoric forests, pray in the spirit as we trek, minister the Gospel to Korowai settlements and sleep happy and without burden even though we face extreme physical conditions each day. 

People of the Trees: Journey to the Korowai - Part 2

People of the Trees: Journey to the Korowai - Part 2

Deep Jungle — Korwai regions, Papua: The soft rain of the night has stopped and a steam lifts from the jungle floor at early dawn. A light blue hue is cast over everything as we sip boiled water from our cups. The Korowai porters on our team are already active and moving supplies into their packs for our next march into deeper regions. Yesterday, we prayed with, and led two elderly Korowai brothers to the Lord, both of whom sit with us and our team around the last embers of our morning fire. 

People of the Trees: Journey to the Korowai  - Part 1

People of the Trees: Journey to the Korowai  - Part 1

Korowai regions — Interior Papua: Looking down, our gum boots are almost submerged in the flooded jungle floor as we trudge through kilometer after kilometer of deep bush. Mud, twisted trees, rust colored water, soft rain, humidity, the sounds of mosquitos circling our ears is the scene that feels like a prehistoric world, but this isn’t prehistory, this is now, here in the interior of Papua.

The Mission

The Mission

The interior of West Papua holds some of the most remote tribes known on earth and even the possibilities of uncontacted peoples. For example, it was not until 1938 that the highland regions around Wamena were known to the outside world. Missionaries have been active in the region since the first discovery of the highland Dani tribes and arrived as early as 1954. Cannibalism and intense tribal wars were the common way of life in the highland as recently as the 80’s, and even today around Wamena and the Baliem Valley, you will still find that, amongst the middle aged and elderly, a traditional way of life. 

The Impact of Travel the Road

The Impact of Travel the Road

This month, as we reflect on the years that have passed since we first began our missionary journeys in 1998, we are so blessed to read the dynamic testimonies of how people have been impacted by Travel the Road and thus chosen a life of missions. Most striking is the fact that many youth who grew up watching Travel the Road, since it first aired in 2003, are now young adults and making the decision to become missionaries. 

He is Our Protector

He is Our Protector

"Are you ever afraid about your safety?” is a question we hear a lot and one that we love to answer. All throughout the Bible we see the Lord telling His children not to fear and to trust in His power and protection. In this message we are going to look at some of those scriptures and see why fear is used as a scheme of the enemy to keep us from living a confident and abundant life in Him and for Him. We will also look at ways in which we as children of God can fight fear with faith.

Drive and Calling: Knowing the Difference

Drive and Calling: Knowing the Difference

“Live your calling (or “passion” as some will refer to it) and follow your dreams.” This is a statement that has a lot of motivational essence but is difficult for many to achieve. Everybody wants to live out their calling/passion, but why do so many fall short? Many times, people don’t know what a calling truly is. A calling is something that is irresistible. We have to do it. It is a force that pulls us toward it and we feel empty without it. A calling can be exchanged and suppressed because of fear, but below the surface, it is still there. A calling is something we were born to do. However, living out a calling in life is not simple, nor is it attained with little effort. For example, the Apostle Paul was given his calling to spread the Gospel around the world and he suffered for it.