Christ is Building His Church

April 7, 2023

Here’s some news about the Palawano church where we worked for many years. An brief update about our health concerns is at the bottom of this post. The Church on Palawan is Thriving We’ve received encouraging reports from coworkers (and messages from Palawanos on Facebook!) about how the church continues to meet, studying the Palawano […]

Lini’s Surgery

January 7, 2022

Success! Lini had her surgery and it was a success and she’s already feeling better and able to walk a bit. Thanks for praying! We learned that she was taken to the better of the two hospitals in the town of Brookes Point. So she’s at the Leoncio private hospital. We’re thankful, because this means […]

Urgent Prayer Request

January 3, 2022

UPDATE ON HOW TO GIVE Hi,Some of you have mentioned having trouble with donating to Lini’s medical expenses. Apparently the scheme I described creates issues with IRS rules. I apologize. The mission is not allowed to have a designation “for Lini,” since she is neither a member of the mission or an official “project” of […]

Fire & Ice

January 16, 2020

Tomorrow, Bill is heading to our training center in Missouri where they teach our missionaries how to learn the language and culture of Unreached People Groups. He will take 3 days to update the staff there on the latest version of the CLA (Culture/Language Acquisition) program his team is developing. He’ll also be meeting with […]

What Are We Doing Lately? Lots…

August 27, 2016

THE PALAWANOS NEED MORE TEACHING… …WE’RE HELPING WITH THAT WE’RE STILL INVOLVED WITH THE PALAWANOS Ongoing ministry after 33 years of ministering to the Palawanos and translating the New Testament for them Recently put the Southwestern Palawano New Testament (written and audio) into an Android app Annual trips to Palawan for Bible teaching seminars […]

Full Circle

June 25, 2016

Another Palawano Translation? Yes. Did you know there are THREE Palawano people groups on Palawan? Three related-but-distinct Palawano languages? It’s true. For security reasons, let’s call them Palawano 1, Palawano 2, and Palawano 3. We did the translation for Palawano 1. Some friends with Wycliffe Bible Translators did a translation for Palawano 2. But Palawano 3 needs […]

There’s an App for That!

April 27, 2016

From Blow Guns to Smart Phones The world has changed a lot in the last 33 years, and so have the Palawanos: 1983… When we first moved in among the Palawano people, many of the older men still wore g-strings; few people could read; only two of the women spoke any language but Palawano. 2012… At the […]