Newsletters
News Update – Jan 2026
Download the full pdf version here. TLDR version As of January 2026, I am writing to share a sobering yet faith filled update on our work in Alotau, Papua New Guinea. While many believe the “false notion” that PNG is a fully Christian nation, the reality is a dire landscape of corruption and character voids. PNG remains…
Our Vision for Living Water Mission
We are Living Water Mission (LWM), led by Pastors Guy and Colleen Willson in Papua New Guinea. We believe we are living in a “Laodicean age” where the return of the Lord is imminent, making our call to fulfill the Great Commission more urgent than ever. Our Core Mission Our primary focus is to make…
Colly and Guy – an update!
COLLYS UPDATE “Hello from me, Colly. Guy and I have been together since 2009 and we have four adopted children, I say children but three of them are now adults with only one remaining child. Lin Lin 28, Amram 26, Mercy 19 and lastly Talitha at 8 (9 in July). The two older ones have…
It’s been a while…
It has been a long time since I wrote a few words and excuses aside, the Babaliman(South East Trade winds) season from May to July lasted until the beginning of thismonth. This season is for SE PNG their wet season where high pressure SE ofAustralia funnels cold wind into the SE Trades which drives up…
Piracy attack – Praise God nobody was hurt
Our new workboat Kwadima was attacked by 20 pirates in two banana boats at about 03.30 last Wednesday at 9°57’3 S 150°45’5 E. They fired shotguns three times at the wheelhouse only 20m away and missed. Not one shot hit, it was calm and the engineer was convinced he was finished. The pirates boarded…
Steering issues, mission land and a burst dinghy
Colly and I have just returned from a two-week break in Australia and have now returned to Milne Bay. On the first night back we stayed with my friend Chris Abel as usual and that night we had one of the largest thunderstorms I had ever encountered with incredibly heavy rainfall and huge cracks of…
YAY…! We made it.
Hi everyone greetings from Living Water here in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. We have now come to the end of our journey and probably this is our last newsletter for the long journey we have done after doing the 13,800 nautical miles crossing 12 countries. Living Water has now completed the voyage and…
Arrived at Misima Island!
Living Water has arrived safely in PNG!They are currently anchored in Misima Island and don’t have access to internet to share pics and a full update with us.In the meantime I received this via satellite: Hello Cameron, We have a lot to share on the welcome and Colly is frustrated about her inability to access…
The last leg of our voyage -Fiji to Misima PNG
We weighed anchor from Suva Bay at 08.30 on Friday 19th July with the wind variable – zilch! Passing through the Levu Passage and motored towards the next passage between Mbenga Islands and Viti Levu. The wind did not kick in until late evening by which time we had Viti Levu well under our lee…
Updates and farewell Fiji!
Today Living Water has just left Fiji on the final leg of the voyage to PNG, approximately 14 days to go. Guy and Colly have sent us a big update from the last month or so, which I have broken up into three seperate updates and will be posting now with the relevant dates. (Hopefully…