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

Ripples

Angela’s life created ripples that will keep spreading outward. 

By: Laurie Erickson
September 01 2016, 11:19 am | Comments 0

Treasure in the Trash

I could almost hear Jesus’ voice saying to me, “Feed my sheep.”

By: Stephen Erickson
June 01 2016, 3:05 pm | Comments 1

Tested by a Watermelon

Nasa refused to pay back evil for evil.

By: Stephen Erickson
May 01 2016, 4:37 pm | Comments 0

Conversations in the Banks

Laurie encouraged him to trust God and to get his life ready to meet his soon-coming Savior.

By: Stephen Erickson
April 01 2016, 11:31 am | Comments 0

See You in the Resurrection

By God’s grace and our choice, we all can join Kaponato in that soon-coming resurrection.

By: Johanna Erickson
January 01 2016, 9:26 am | Comments 1

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