Below you'll meet Team nDo - the team currently on the ground in this particular language group as well as the Cann's local church and sending organization. Not pictured here are those who have already come and gone in this endeavor. The Dodd family and the Mitchell family both made enormous impacts in the work here. They are loved and missed by both us and the nDo people. Also not pictured here is a sea of people who make this ministry possible, from supporters to supply buyers, from pastors to pilots, from coordinators to consultants. It takes a team to get the God's Word to unreached people.
Cann Family - Zach, Cass, Jude, Oliver, Annie, Ellie
We’re the Canns. We (Zach and Cassidy) were married in 2011 and moved to Papua New Guinea with our two boys (just 2 and 11-months old at the time) in 2014. We currently live and work in the Finisterre Mountains on the Huon Peninsula in a language known as Ndo (which is their word for “what”). We’ve been living among the Do people since 2015. After learning langauge and culture, we began teaching them God's Word in their own language in 2020. Since then we have added two more to the Cann Clan - Annie and Ellie. Long-term, the goal is to see a church well-established with the Scriptures in the Do language. We are plodding in that direction.
We also serve as informal consultants to other FinisTerre Missionaries serving in PNG.
The Miller Family - Josh, Autumn, and Rowan
Josh and Autumn Miller are planning to join the Canns in Mawerero in 2025. They are currently serving at Community Baptist Church in Stuart, FL, and raising support to come join us in the village. If you would like to support the Millers in this endeavor, you can do so here.
Amelia Myburgh
Amelia Brink once lived and worked in the village of Mawerero with the Canns. She has since moved back to South Africa, met and married Cornel Myburgh, and had a baby! But her love of the nDo people and her understanding the the nDo language remains. She currently helps remotely with translation.
SENDING CHURCH & MISSION ORGANIZATION //
We're with
FinisTerre and sent by
Grace Bible Church.