Stephen & Laurie Erickson

Career Missionaries since 2007, serving the Gogodala people of Papua New Guinea. Also serving as Field Directors to other missionaries.

We are Stephen and Laurie Erickson with our two daughters, Karin and Johanna. In 2003, after working as an architect for 20 years, I received a pink slip and suddenly was unemployed. But God provided me with small jobs to pay the bills while, unknown to me, He was preparing us for cross-cultural mission work. An elderly saint in our church said to Laurie one day, “Maybe God wants you to be missionaries. Do you get the AFM magazine?” I attended a Christian men’s conference and heard a fiery young preacher talk about the need for missionaries in unreached areas of the world. But it was another eight months before I started thinking seriously about AFM. One night, I experienced some serious doubts and prayed for clarity and assurance that God was leading. Before dawn the next morning, I woke up realizing I had just seen myself in heaven surrounded by a dozen PNG men thanking me for coming to share the gospel with them.

Now we’ve been working with the Gogodala people since 2007. We’re building a training-center campus that will also serve as a camp meeting facility. Twelve young men from Kewa village are helping us. None of them were church members before, but now, nearly all of them are baptized. Our plan is to use the training center to equip local missionaries to take the everlasting gospel to other villages up and down the Aramia River.

Frontier Stories

Nagela

When Jesus returns, Nagela will receive new ears that hear and a tongue that will sing praises to God.

By: Stephen Erickson
December 01 2017, 9:52 am | Comments 0

To Feed and Be Fed

The Gogodala seem to be hungrier for God’s word than ever before.

By: Laurie Erickson
November 01 2017, 12:08 pm | Comments 1

Opening the Floodgates

Among the class members was a lady whose husband had previously shown strong prejudice against Seventh-day Adventists, even kicking SDA students out of the village. Another class member was a high-ranking woman in the major church of the village. These all came and participated in our worship service. Praise God!

By: Stephen Erickson
October 01 2017, 4:59 pm | Comments 0

A Picture of Heaven

God works in mysterious ways. I didn’t see this coming, but He did.

By: Stephen Erickson
September 01 2017, 10:17 am | Comments 0

A Golden Day

As the old hymn says, with the baptisms came the gleams of the golden morning piercing through the night of gloom.

By: Stephen Erickson
July 01 2017, 1:26 pm | Comments 0

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