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November 20, 2025 Written by Abigail Ginn Some of you will be familiar with the passage from Ecclesiastes 3 with the same title as this blog post, “A Time for Everything.” I won’t include the entire text here, but I wanted to include several verses that have been weighing on my heart lately. Specifically, you
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by Marvin Helmker (Abigail’s dad), April 2025 My name is Marvin Helmker. I am the proud father of a missionary physician, Dr. Abigail Ginn, a pediatrician. Abigail’s husband and my son-in-law, Dr. Brian Ginn, a general surgeon, and their 2 ½ year old son, my grandson Henry, serve as missionaries at the Kudjip Nazarene Hospital
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Brian Ginn Time Away We have much to catch you up on since our last post. At the end of October, we left for a Restore Conference hosted by our employer, Samaritan’s Purse, just outside of Athens, Greece. This was a much-needed break and change of scenery. While the consistency of sunshine and warm temperatures
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October 15, 2024. Written by Abigail Before we moved to PNG I found it odd that the people here don’t have a linear sense of time. After having lived here for the past 8 months, though, it makes a lot of sense to me. There are no real seasons, the weather is essentially the same
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August 2024 Recently, Brian walked you through what a typical week looks like for him as a missionary surgeon. His weeks tend to be slightly more predictable than mine, but I want to give you an idea of what a week for a missionary mom and pediatrician looks like. This is an excerpt from the
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July 14, 2024 I thought I would share the happenings for each of my days to give a feel for what my routine is here (this is from the 2nd week in June): Sunday: We walked to a church off station. About a 30 minute walk, Henry in a child carrier on my back. The
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June 14, 2024 Our time in Italy was fantastic. David and Viviana’s wedding was perfect – a sunny day in an Italian vineyard with rolling hills surrounded by friends and family. We spent a total of two weeks touring around several cities and spending time together. We liked Florence the most – beautiful and historic,
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May 1, 2024 Brian: Another month has flown by.For the first two weeks of April, we were in Kompiam, a village west of us in the province of Enga. To travel to Kompiam takes 4-5 hours by car. Fortunately, we were able to fly on a small Cessna with Missions Aviation Fellowship (MAF) and land
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Abigail: It’s hard to believe that we’ve been in PNG for over a month already. In some ways, it feels like we have only been in Kudjip for a few days, and in other ways it feels like Kudjip has been our home for years. We are feeling mostly settled in and are finding our
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February 11, 2024 The past few months have been a season of many transitions. We both officially finished our medical training during the summer of 2023 and took part-time jobs, allowing us more time at home with Henry. Working part-time also afforded us the opportunity to spend precious time with family and friends. We have
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