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September 26, 2002 Update

September 26, 2002

New Faith After many months of teaching through the Word of God, the Gospel was presented in early May 2002. For the Gospel presentation we had approximately 50 people in attendance. But only half of those were regular attenders who really seemed interested in God’s Word. We are not sure yet, but it appears that maybe […]

June 29, 2002 Update

June 29, 2002

California Team rebuilding co-worker Lori Morley’s house We have a team from California here for 3 weeks to help relocate our co-worker Lori Morley’s house from across the airstrip to near our house. For security reasons our team decided it would be better to have Lori nearby where she is not alone. Several weeks ago […]

June 9, 2002 Testimonies

June 9, 2002

Changes The last few weeks have been very interesting. After presenting the Gospel we heard testimonies of faith and of people wanting to hear more of God’s Word. While many were present we arranged to meet the next Sunday but when Sunday came around there were only 7 people there. The next week the weather […]

April 27, 2002 Update

April 27, 2002

Thanks for Praying! We have been thrilled to see God at work here. Attendance averaged about 100 each day this week as we taught. After some of the lessons that were particularly convicting the people hardly wanted to dismiss the meeting. Though there are a lot of people listening we don’t know how many are really listening with their hearts. This is […]

March 16, 2002 Update

March 16, 2002

Wet Week The teaching got rained out all this week. We’ve had 6½ inches of rain since Monday just to give you an idea. We trust the One who sends the rain. Our schedule was obviously different than His and so we will try again on Monday. With the people stuck in their houses due […]

March 9, 2002 Update

March 9, 2002

Say What? Thankfully my voice is getting better. I still can’t talk as strong as usual but it has been strong enough for teaching. This last week we had good attendance ranging from about 30 to over 80 on one day. (because the plane was scheduled to come that day) We got rained out again […]

February 23, 2002 Update

February 23, 2002

The ‘faithful’ Some have expressed surprise at the lack of interest in the teaching among so many of the Simbaris. To be honest we also had hoped for a better turnout for the teaching. But after thinking more about it we are not surprised anymore. If you were to hold a Bible study and invite […]

February 9, 2002 Update

February 9, 2002

Finishing Up Old Testament Lessons It’s still raining. But the rain held off long enough for us to be able to teach 3 days this week. We are teaching the final Old Testament lessons right now. We are emphasizing how God always saved those who believed His Word. (see below for more highlights!) Despite the […]

February 2, 2002 Update

February 2, 2002

Snakes! The Simbari REALLY don’t like snakes. Their dislike far exceeds that of most westerners. We put “spiders and snakes” together when listing our dislikes, but to the Simbari spiders are nothing. They don’t mind picking up huge spiders with their bare hands and squishing them. BUT…snakes are another matter. Even a night crawler worm, […]

January 26, 2002 Purpose Of The Law

January 26, 2002

Teaching Again We postponed the teaching over the holidays but started up again last Monday. David has enough translation ready now for upcoming lessons and most of the people are back in the village now. We have been really encouraged with the attendance this week which has been way up compared to when we stopped […]