{"id":903,"date":"2014-12-16T10:42:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T14:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/benjamin-hatton\/?p=903"},"modified":"2014-12-17T10:56:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T14:56:17","slug":"amdu-abcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/benjamin-hatton\/2014\/12\/16\/amdu-abcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Amdu ABC’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Amdu4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Your interest in what God is doing here in Amdu is so appreciated.\u00a0 It is particularly encouraging given the fact that we are unable to paint you a very detailed picture of all that is going on in our lives.\u00a0 Looking back at the updates and video clips that we have posted over the last two years, we \u00a0realize that we create more questions than we answer.\u00a0 All the more reason \u00a0to take time away from ministry here, to come home and give you the scoop in person, right?\u00a0 We are planning on doing just that next year starting in May 2015.\u00a0 We will be home in the USA for about eight months, returning to Amdu \u00a0in January 2016.<\/p>\n

In our last update we asked you to be praying for us in regards to the literacy and grammar goals that we were trying to achieve.\u00a0 Thank you for doing \u00a0that for us.\u00a0 The Lord enabled Missy to put together an excellent literacy \u00a0report that details our findings about the noises that the Amdu language is made up of and our recommendation for the symbols that should represent these sounds.\u00a0 It’s exciting to be able to say that the Amdu people now have their own alphabet.<\/p>\n

Missy is now working on writing a report explaining how Amdu words work together to form sentences; the grammar side of things.\u00a0 Just like English, the Amdu language has nouns, verbs, adjectives etc.\u00a0 How they all work together is unique, but thankfully there is a structure to it.\u00a0 Continue to pray that the Lord would give Missy clarity of mind and physical stamina.\u00a0 It requires extended concentration and an ability to deal in the nitty gritty.<\/p>\n

The Amdu way of life; their culture, lifestyle, values and worldview is steadily becoming more familiar to us.\u00a0 We see the great value of living here as a family in their world.\u00a0 The Amdu perspective is so different from our own.\u00a0 It poses its own set of challenges to God’s perspective just like any culture.\u00a0 The longer we live here the more empathy we have for our friends and the challenges that they face; most especially the challenge of not understanding the Gospel.\u00a0 We could not gain this understanding without immersing ourselves into their world like we are doing.<\/p>\n

Each conversation that we have helps us to grow more fluent.\u00a0 We hear more and we can say more and ask more questions than before.\u00a0 We are hearing more of the subtleties of the language that gives us clearer insight into what \u00a0our Amdu friends are thinking and feeling.\u00a0 This insight is going to help us craft the presentation of the Gospel in their language in a way that speaks specially to the Amdu heart.\u00a0 This has not been done for them before. \u00a0Keep praying that we would remain curious and present in our friends lives so that we can continue to learn and reach that place where fluency becomes \u00a0a reality.<\/p>\n

Benjamin’s friendships with the Amdu men are paying big dividends in this regard.\u00a0 The more the friendships develop the deeper the conversations go.<\/p>\n

Now Benjamin is not the only one asking questions.\u00a0 Recently some of the men have been asking Benjamin some of their deeper questions about ultimate \u00a0things.\u00a0 This is so exciting for us even though we have no way to give them clear answers right now; the day is coming when we will and what a day that will be.<\/p>\n

Thank you for partnering with us in this ministry.\u00a0 We could not be here without your generosity and faithful partnership with us in prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your interest in what God is doing here in Amdu is so appreciated.\u00a0 It is particularly encouraging given the fact that we are unable to paint you a very detailed picture of all that is going on in our lives.\u00a0 Looking back at the updates and video clips that we have posted over the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1054],"tags":[48793,448,637,638,567],"class_list":{"0":"post-903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-the-very-latest-news","7":"tag-amdu","8":"tag-ethnos360","9":"tag-new-tribes-mission","10":"tag-papua-new-guinea","11":"tag-png","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/benjamin-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/benjamin-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/benjamin-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/benjamin-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/benjamin-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/benjamin-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/benjamin-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/benjamin-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/benjamin-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}