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We want to alert all of you who are praying for us and the Amdu people that more developments have affected the start of our foundational Bible teaching. We intended to gather on Tuesday and begin our teaching program but this morning we were alerted to the fact that a ban has been put on […]

Thank you for praying for us since we wrote a week ago. We flew back into the village on Monday and were warmly greeted by our friends here. After sweeping up the dirt and grime, and the graveyard of critters that visited the Roach Motel while we were gone, we had a good night’s sleep […]

“Then Jesus took them through the writings of Moses and all the prophets, explaining from all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.” Luke 24:27 This is one of my favorite stories in the life of Christ. If you haven’t read this story recently take a few minutes to read it again. The things that transpired […]

Since our last update we’ve celebrated three birthdays, our Amdu Anniversary, Thanksgiving, Christmas and the hailing in of a new year. Even here in the village away from the hubbub of the holidays we still found ourselves very busy. But it was a good busy and if anything it has made us more focused on […]

Our pilot flew a long, slow loop above the village we have called our second home away from home. We weren’t sure what condition the grass landing strip might be in so we all peered down to investigate. We could see so much more than just the landing strip from our bird’s eye view. We […]

Amdu friends of ours left the village one day on a long journey only to return later the same afternoon despite their intentions to be gone for two weeks. They said their legs got heavy and so they came home. In the Amdu universe when a person goes on a journey and their legs get […]

It’s Sunday night as I write this and we are gearing up for our second week of literacy classes. Before we launch into another week, we wanted to get an update off to you about how the first week went. It was FANTASTIC! That is the short version. Sunday afternoon, last week, as we were […]

Since Missy’s return from the United States this summer we have locked ourselves into the most intense season of tunnel vision here in Amdu, to date. The Lord has enabled our team to take significant last steps to finish the first phase of our ministry that we refer to as Culture and Language Acquisition. In […]

Early morning mist is rising from the earth after a cool night. The Mwinika “winter” is on us, and despite the temperature never lowering even close to freezing, fevers, colds, runny noses, and coughing are rampant in our village. I am on my way to Granny’s house to get her ready for the day. She […]

The Amdu people inhabit an enormous territory of mountainous jungle that takes weeks to cross on foot. A week of hiking to our east, the mountains become hills and the jungle gives way to grassland where you can see for miles. The people who live there had contact with outsiders before the Amdu people did. […]