21/08/2025
Bisiatabu, Papua New Guinea
GLYNN LESTER LOCK, AND LINETTE VEITCH
Glynn Lester Lock was born in Mackay, North Queensland. He is third generation missionary to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, and is now retired
after working in primary, secondary, tertiary and aviation education. He was married to Bette-Joy (Rosendahl), now deceased and mother of his two adult children,
Joyanne and Kent, for forty-eight years, six of those in the Solomon Islands and PNG. Lock enjoys visiting family, including three grandchildren, and friends,
woodwork, caravanning, gardening, volunteering and participating in music. He now lives with his wife, Lorraine, in Swansea, NSW.
Linette Veitch, (nee, and works as, Lock), Ph.D. (University of Technology Sydney) is a semi-retired academic now associated with the World Health Organization
Collaborating Centre, University of Technology Sydney. Born in Australia to missionary parents, Lin has spent most of her professional life as a nurse/midwife
academic with a major emphasis in curriculum and educational development in Australia, South Pacific and South East Asian countries. Most of her
publications come from this area of her work. She is married to Dalton and has two adult children.
Bisiatabu was the first mission station of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Papua New Guinea.