Bart Allen

Is He Worthy?

June 11, 2019

If you’ve been around missionaries very long, you’ve probably heard words like ‘transition’, ‘flexibility’, ‘adjustment’, ‘goodbyes’ and ‘change’ as part of their vocabulary. Everyone experiences these things, but it does seem that it is a bit more pronounced for missionaries. Living far from home in a culture that is so extremely different from our own […]

Translation Check Update

May 9, 2018

Thank you for praying for our team as we hit another milestone here in Amdu – our very first Bible translation check! Our consultant Jason was recently here with us for about 3 days and during that time he was able to officially check 9 chapters – 4 chapters in Genesis that Bart had done, […]

Amdu Literacy Milestones

February 6, 2018

Each weekday for nearly four months, just as the light breaks over the ridge of mountains to the east, we have heard an exciting sound – our neighbor across the airstrip pounding on his hollowed-out tree trunk drum, calling the literacy students to class. The class started in early October with fifteen students. While one […]