Ulrike Ixmeier said this after visiting Lucgaweng, Simbang, Heldsbach, Sattelberg, Tami Island at Finschhafen, Katherine Lehman School in Wau, Morobe Province, and then to Onerunka and Raipinka in Kainantu early this month before returning to Germany last week.
Mrs Ixmeier said first Lutheran missionary Johann Flierl is her great grandfather who started the Lutheran church and preached the Word of God in Papua New Guinea while her grandfather, who is Johannes Flierl, and father Helmut Flierl, were missionaries at Lutheran missionary stations in the early 1940s to 1970s.