The Earth is Round and Therefore Has no "Ends" or "Corners"

I beg to differ.
The earth totally has ends and corners, no matter how "round" it supposedly is.

No, I am not a member of the Flat Earth Society, nor do I believe in the physical flatness of the planet Earth.

However,

I'd like to introduce you to Kudjip Nazarene Mission Station. This little plot of land up in the highlands of Papua New Guinea is pretty much sitting out here on a spit of land at the end of the earth.

Papua New Guinea is one of the most culturally diverse nations on earth, with over 800 languages and about as many "traditional societies" or tribes. (Ethnologue)

Only about 18% of these people live in urban areas, making for a vast island of rugged mountains and traditional villages. (Urbanization)

Papua New Guinea has only about 5 doctors per 100,000 people, compared to the world average of 139 per 100,000 (Statistics)

Here at Kudjip, quite a number of those few-and-far-between doctors make their home, serving at the ministry that is Kudjip Nazarene Hospital. 

Kudjip hospital in 2013:

-saw 52,541 outpatients

-admitted 5,542 patients 

-delivered 1,575 babies

-did 577 major surgeries

-did 839 minor surgeries (hospital website)

Kudjip Mission Station is also home to several other ministries, as well as being the headquarters for the Church of the Nazarene in the South Pacific and Melanesia (7 different countries).

Just like any ministry (or any organization, for that matter), Kudjip would not run without people in the less-obvious supporting roles.
 Doctors need electricity,
bathrooms,
cars that run,
schooling for their children,
and chocolate, just like anyone else.
You might think that chocolate is not as necessary as the other things listed, and you are entitled to hold that opinion, but you would of course be wrong.

My husband and I are here at Kudjip to play some of these supporting roles.
Morgan, working with Field Maintenance, makes sure that
the doctors' houses do not fall apart
their toilets flush into a sewer system rather than the yard or house
their cars get them where they need to go and not only halfway there.

I, as one of the two highschool teachers, make sure that
their children learn how to spell
and add
and diagram a sentence'
and write chemical equations
and calculate the derivation of the formula of a hyperbole.

Just kidding, the other highschool teacher does the last one.
She has a degree in math.
I take care of the English papers.
We have a good arrangement.

I'd like to, in the next few posts, introduce you to the students I teach and the families that are able to minister here because the highschool exists, and are able to drive to town in their cars to do grocery shopping because Morgan is here.
They are pretty cool people.
I think you'll agree.

*pictures taken by various missionaries here at Kudjip