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The Gogodala people live deep in the sago swamps of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. Approximately 25,000 men, women and children live in 30 villages stretched out on ridges of land that rise above large lagoons. They build their homes from split palm branches and cover them with thatched roofs made from sago palm leaves.
Missionaries have worked among the Gogodala for more than 60 years, trying to establish an indigenous church among the people. Yet, Gogodala men and women have shared that they never gave up their spirit traditions when they became “Christians.” Instead, they merged the two belief systems, often asking God to bless them before conducting their spirit ceremonies. Please pray that the Gogodala people will come to a true understanding of God’s love and care for them.
As the airline captain announced we were beginning our descent into Jackson International Airport in Port Moresby, we scanned the horizon for our first glimpses of Papua New Guinea.
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Stephen Erickson
July 01 2007, 12:00 am | Comments 0
During our pre-launch time, we found ourselves assisting family members in stressful situations—a sister recovering from a serious auto accident and a grandmother needing more care.
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Stephen & Laurie Erickson
June 01 2007, 12:00 am | Comments 0
Prayer is a powerful tool. “The summing up of the benefit of prayer is that devotion that leads to faith in God’s promises. This faith is the key that opens the divine treasury, is the hand by which we appropriate to our use the richest gifts of God.
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Stephen Erickson
May 01 2007, 12:00 am | Comments 0
There is a Gogodala story that tells of a time when they were brothers with white Europeans. The story says there were two brothers; the eldest a dark-skinned Gogodala, and the younger a white-skinned European.
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Stephen & Laurie Erickson
April 01 2007, 12:00 am | Comments 0
When God called us to the mission field, He confirmed that appeal in two remarkably clear ways (see our first article in Adventist Frontiers, August 2005 or on our AFM web page).
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Stephen Erickson
March 01 2007, 12:00 am | Comments 0
Waiting. It’s something many people have difficulty with, especially when the reason for waiting is unknown. But if we believe God is in control and is taking care of us, we can trust He will work things out in the right time.
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Laurie Erickson
February 01 2007, 12:00 am | Comments 0
When my mom and dad got an e-mail from Mr. White last year saying that he had been impressed that a family named Erickson would be coming to help them,
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Karin Erickson
January 01 2007, 12:00 am | Comments 0
The Gogodala have some interesting beliefs about their race’s origin.
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Laurie Erickson
December 01 2006, 12:00 am | Comments 0
“What will you do if your house doesn’t sell?” We have been asked this question more than once. Our house has been on the market since February of this year. We still owe a lot of money on it, therefore it must be sold before we go to the mission field.
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Stephen Erickson
November 01 2006, 12:00 am | Comments 0
Illness, exhaustion, ideological conflict, Cambodian hacky-sack, beach volleyball, singing, prayer, inductive Bible study, suturing turkey legs, worldview issues, The Crucible, church planting, bush hydrotherapy, inner healing, language learning, flavorless tapioca.
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Stephen Erickson
October 01 2006, 12:00 am | Comments 0
Career Missionaries since 2020
Career Missionaries since 2007.
AFM-Brazil Short-term missionary for 2019.
Career Missionaries from 2000-2005, 2007.
Career Missionaries from 1997-2002.
Launched as career missionaries to PNG in 2004.
