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Newsletter Archives:
October 2017--Construction & Maintenance, School Teaching, My Parents Visit
March 2017--A truck accident, Vacation Bible School, Our New House
November 2016--About our month of village living
September 2016--News from the Pacific Orientation Course
July 8, 2016--Final Countdown to Papua New Guinea
June 2016
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