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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 […]

December 22, 2001 – 14 Years

December 22, 2001

14 Years! Yesterday we celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary. Our co-worker Lori Morley watched all the kids so we could have a quiet dinner for two. We had salads, steak and baked potatoes with sparkling apple cider. Then we all got together for some blueberry cheesecake. We had a great time reminiscing about all the joys we […]

December 8, 2001 – Nuts

December 8, 2001

Nuts Because of a poor showing on Monday morning we put off teaching for this week. Some more would have showed if we waited long enough but it is not fair to the ones who came on time to make them wait. One reason for the poor showing is nuts. The pandanus trees up in […]

Nov. 17, 2001 Substitutionary Death

November 17, 2001

1st Month of Teaching Completed We have been teaching every morning Monday through Friday for a month now. We are about a third of the way through this course. We started in Genesis and are up to the story of Joseph. On Monday when we got to the teaching site in the village there were […]