Author: Bart and Emily Allen

Chronological Bible Teaching to Begin in Amdu on March 23

Chronological Bible Teaching to Begin in Amdu on March 23

Years of training, countless hours of language/culture study and relationship building, countless more hours of literacy, Bible translation and lesson writing, along with the prayers and support of so many of God’s servants have brought us to the point where we are today – on the verge of our Amdu friends having the chance to […]
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Lesson Evaluation Update

Lesson Evaluation Update

Thank you so much for praying for our team during our recent Bible lesson evaluation.  Here’s a little update about how that time went and how the Lord answered prayer.  And we’ll include some new prayer requests at the end too.    Our consultants Aaron and Brandon (both on their first-time visit to Amdu) arrived safely, […]
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Batteries, Translation Check and Bible Lessons

Batteries, Translation Check and Bible Lessons

***This update was sent out by email back in September, but we are just posting it on our blog now that we are out in town. The benefit is that we can now add pictures!*** We have to play a little catch-up here!!  Hopefully none of you have been holding your breath while waiting to […]
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Allen Ministry Video

Allen Ministry Video

Because our Home Assignment was shorter this time, there were many of our supporting churches and individual supporters that we were not able to see! For those we were able to visit, we shared this video that gives some history of our time in PNG up to this point, as well as what we are […]
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Family Reunion Photos

Family Reunion Photos

Our extended family is spread out around the globe – parents in Pennsylvania and siblings in Washington, New York, Pennsylvania, Canada, Belgium and Ecuador.  And until a few weeks ago, our family was in Papua New Guinea.  The times when we can all be together are quite rare! Since returning to the States, we have […]
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Amdu Literacy Video

Amdu Literacy Video

The past two months since our final language evaluation have flown by!!  We are currently in town so our boys could attend spiritual emphasis retreats with their fellow missionary kids from all over PNG.  Before we head back to Amdu in a few days, we wanted to share with you a video that our teammate […]
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First Amdu Literacy Class

First Amdu Literacy Class

October 2, 2017 was a historic day in our Amdu village. The first ever Amdu Literacy Class began!! Class one is made up of a wide range of students – some who know how to read and write in the trade language of Melanesian Pidgin, some who have had a little bit of schooling, and finally […]
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Evaluation Results!

Evaluation Results!

It is with much excitement and thankfulness that we share with you the results of our recent language evaluation. Each of us on the team – Benjamin, Missy, Bart and Emily – is officially finished with formal language and culture study!!!! We are praising the Lord for His enabling to get to this point that […]
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Language Evaluation and First Literacy Class

Language Evaluation and First Literacy Class

Many years ago as we were raising support, in our presentations we confidently and somewhat naively shared various facts, statistics and timelines related to Tribal Church Planting. Having not yet done it ourselves, sharing the stories of others and the averages of how long different stages of church planting might take was the best we […]
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