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Update On Gwandambi

Update On Gwandambi

Thanks for praying! Thanks for praying for Gwandambi. There was a little improvement already in his leg overnight and we woke up to a beautiful sunny morning! So the planes made it in and one of them was able to take him out to the hospital. Pray he gets the full treatment he needs at […]
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Pray For Gwandambi

Pray For Gwandambi

The boy pictured is the son of Rison (one of the Simbari Bible teachers) and he is very ill right now with a joint or bone infection in his leg. It is crucial for him to get out to the hospital in town where he can receive intravenous antibiotics. Shari is treating him with oral […]
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Check it.

Check it.

For the last month or so we had been making frequent jokes with our Tigak friends about the impending “TEST” that was coming up for us in our language study. We were able to make our friends laugh as we jokingly talked up being “terrified” of how we would do when our Culture & Language Acquisition […]
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Coconut Culture

Coconut Culture

Its tempting to look at our time in language and culture study as mainly about getting the Tigak language. Culture study seems less tangible and less impressive than speaking a new language. However, we firmly believe that language should be learned in the context of culture, therefore, our language & culture study among the Tigak […]
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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

Happy to be with family in Washington As we back out of the driveway, the girls chant, “Wait for it… wait for it…. wait for it….” And as we leave “Ms. Esther’s house” and drive down the hill, the girls sing, “WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!” So it is with many smiles that we report to you that we […]
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“This is a FANCY Storm!”

“This is a FANCY Storm!”

Driving through the heart of a thunderstorm in Kansas, with torrential rain and bright sun breaking through, and lightning all around… Naya asked, “Is this a thunderstorm?” Daddy said, “Yes it is!” She responded, “Ohhhh, this is a FANCY storm!!”   Here is a short “map” of our journey from Missouri to Washington for our […]
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Half Finish

Half Finish

Four weeks to go! The end of this semester marks the halfway point until the completion of our training with NTM! We completed our Animism class in mid-March, which included a short module on Folk Religion. A Folk religion is a blending/merging of a high religion (such as Christianity, Islam, or Hinduism), and an indigenous/animistic […]
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Unity Of The Spirit

Unity Of The Spirit

In church this Sunday Raymond shared how the Lord had protected him during a quick trip out to town a couple of weeks ago. After hiking for two days over rugged terrain, he arrived at the small town where he would use some public transportation to travel one more day in order to reach the […]
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Great(er) Expectations

Great(er) Expectations

Beth and I enjoyed some small talk with our premarital counselors Todd & Ruth Ann. We were still a couple of months away from our wedding, and each session of premarital counseling brought us closer and closer to the big day. We had asked them to do our counseling since we had observed their marriage […]
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Peter And The River

Peter And The River

Last week a group of Simbari believers were hiking through the jungle on the way to their pandanus nut gardens. These gardens are high up in the mountainous rainforest and the only way to reach them is on difficult foot trails. These trails repeatedly cross mountains and rivers and at one such river crossing they […]
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