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September 2004 Teaching Through Mark

September 21, 2004

The Flesh Is Weak We continue to study the book of Mark on Sundays with the believers. Currently we are in Mark 14 and just finished looking at Peter’s insistance that he would not deny Christ. Peter and the disciples were not really depending on God but on their own strength and they were convinced that their own […]

July 2004 Settling In

July 17, 2004

“Why Is It Raining?” Our first attempt to get back in the tribe ended up being a sight-seeing trip. The weather was so bad the plane had to take us back to Goroka. The next morning we got in along with 2 more flights for our suitcases and supplies like food, etc. The following weeks […]

September 2003 – Road Trip

September 22, 2003

Here’s some pictures of our summer trip

May 2003 Consultant Check of Mark

May 13, 2003

Final Translation Check Starting Today our final check on the book of Mark starts. A translation consultant will be coming in and we will be working on the check for about a week. Right now the field is very short of Translation Consultants but Linda Krieg generously offered to do the check for us even though she has been […]

February 2003 – Hunger

February 10, 2003

Language Our co-worker Lori Morley passed her final language fluency check recently. She will now be able to be a part of the translation process. She is already helping out by doing comprehension testing of the book of Mark. She will continue working with literacy as well. She is also working on some more books so the people can get more reading practice after […]

December 2002 – Translation Workshop

December 15, 2002

Translation Workshop We just got back from a Bible translation workshop out in the town of Goroka. Bible translators from all over PNG and some other countries as well attended and we received very practical training in the latest methods of Bible translation. We all brought translation helpers out of the bush with us and […]

October 13, 2002 Translation of Mark

October 13, 2002

Our co-worker Lori Morley with the new Simbari Literacy Teachers Manual Translation of Mark finished David has been busy with translation and just finished the draft of the Gospel of Mark. There is still some further proofing and checking before we can distribute it to the people. David needs to get some more Bible lessons translated right […]

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 […]