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Remembering Teresa

Remembering Teresa

Teresa Holmgren prayerfully and skillfully wrote the previous blog entries. Due to her 4-year battle with cancer and the rapid turning of the calendar pages as Tim grappled with how to live with her loss, it has been a number of years since a post has been written on this blog. Tim and I could […]
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Welcome to the Jungle!

Welcome to the Jungle!

En Route to Papua New Guinea Thank you for joining me on this journey of faith.  Thank you for praying for me, and thank you for praying for this amazing ministry in Papua New Guinea.  It is God’s work, and we are privileged to be His hands and feet!! “How then will they call on […]
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Bible Publishing In Progress

Bible Publishing In Progress

We finished up the proofreading of the Simbari Bible a couple months ago and have been in the process of confirming all the details with the publisher. This week the order was submitted, and the project is now in the beginning stages of production. It has all taken much longer than expected but we are […]
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Back in the mountains of PNG!

Back in the mountains of PNG!

We have been back from Port Moresby for just over a month and life is settling into a good summer schedule, just in time for school to start up in 2 weeks! That was fast! Thank you for all your prayers! Our trip to the capital of PNG was very profitable! Jacob completed a dog […]
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40 days and 3300 miles

40 days and 3300 miles

From the rising of the sun to its setting,the name of the LORD is to be praised! Psalms 113:3 Back home: Praise the Lord with us that we are back in our Oklahoma home. It is so good to be home after 40 days and more than 3,300 miles. Our time away was wonderful. The […]
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Rejoice with me

Rejoice with me

I have good news to share with you – our alphabet is approved by the leaders of My People! I was recently in Senegal for some meetings, and it was on my first Sunday in Senegal that the chief of the whole people group, as well as many village chiefs, literacy teachers in the language […]
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Seeing the fruit

Seeing the fruit

We are beginning to see the fruit of some huge projects into which we have poured time. When we could not travel because of Covid we were able to write the 251-page Literacy Manual. Teams are translating it into Spanish, Portuguese, French, etc. Recently, a team in Bolivia who is teaching the literacy course had […]
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Settling-in in Arizona

Settling-in in Arizona

For the first time since the start of 2022, we are finally beginning to feel a little bit of routine in our life as we get settled here at Ethnos360 Aviation’s training center in McNeal, Arizona.  This is not where we saw ourselves when we started into 2022, but it is where the Lord has […]
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Rooted

Rooted

Rooted Something that I’ve discovered recently is that just about every plant you cut off and put in water here will sprout roots. At first, I’m a little hesitant to cut something off and potentially kill it, but I’ve found that this way I can create a whole indoor honey jar garden without paying a […]
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