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Late Summer

Late Summer

Thank you for your prayers over the summer. The kids enjoyed their summer break. Areli and Tyndale just went back to school day before yesterday. Areli is a senior now, and Tyndale is a freshman. Galilee is starting to study for her GED (high school equivalency exam) which she hopes to take sometime this upcoming […]
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A Grain of Wheat

A Grain of Wheat

As I prepare for class this morning, I have been meditating on Ian Thomas’ sermon titled “A Grain of Wheat.” Today we will be talking about living in such away that we don’t clutter our life with so much complexity that we are only able to give a small percentage of our resources (time, money, […]
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Living With a Singular Focus

Living With a Singular Focus

Being God’s hands, restfully available, but instantly obedient. From the sermon “Available” by Ian Thomas: The Illustration of your hands… “Do you expect your hands to have a committee meeting when you get up, to tell you what their plans are for the day… and to tell you what they consider would be a very […]
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First things first

First things first

We need you to pray! It’s come down to the last few weeks we can wait to make the “go/no-go” decision on this ministry trip to Thailand. We’ve prayed all along that the Lord would make clear to us whether we should go, based on if the right solution could be found. A few possibilities did not […]
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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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