Trusting God with my health

September 21, 2016

Back in December, my faith was tested. I noticed a lump in my breast and of course freaked out. We live in the middle of nowhere and I will have to wait 8 months to get it checked out. Then about a month later I noticed 1, then 2 spots that looked like more basal […]

NOT ABOUT MY NAME, BUT HIS!

September 11, 2015

Hi, my name is Saline….like the nose spray! Our people group that we are working among cannot say the letter “J”. Let me also say that they can’t say final “L’s”. I tried many things to get my name to come out somewhat the same. I ended up trying to get them to say “Jilly” […]

FiNaLlY!

November 17, 2014

Friday, I finally got to go to the people group that I’ve been praying for for the past 6 years! I didn’t exactly know it was them, but I prayed for the people God would one day send me. I finally got to meet them. As we got out of the helicopter, these people were […]

Plenti sumting

November 9, 2014

I know the title is talk pidgin, but I’m sure you figured it out…”plenty something!” This is basically what we’ve been up to! We have been finalizing our house plans, which has been so much fun! This morning, BJ started learning how to make cabinets. Friday, I finally get to step foot on Wanatikia soil! […]

First Contact

October 20, 2014

Our co-worker Jack made an awesome video of BJ and Jeremy going on our first survey! Trust me, you want to see this!! First Contact Video

What are we doing?!

September 30, 2014

“So what are you guys doing as you wait for the Crabtrees?” Our 3rd family on our team, Jack and Lael Crabtree, got to the country in August and are dominating learning the language (so glad to have brainys on the team!) They will finish up by the New Year and we will Lord willing […]

Surveying the Wantakian People

September 12, 2014

Last Tuesday, Jeremy and I finally got our feet on the ground in the Wantakia tribe! As most of you know, we have been praying and looking forward to this day for many years. Our goals for this first contact trip were (1) to find out if we missionaries have an invitation to come live amongst […]

The moment we’ve all been waiting for…

September 1, 2014

10 years ago, our eyes were open to what God was doing in the Bible and it had to do with missions. 5 years ago, we put it all on the line and started training with New Tribes to be church planters. 1 year ago, we started selling all of our “stuff” and saying goodbye […]

Language Learning!

May 29, 2012

Do you ever wonder why you can’t remember that language you studied in high school??? In our training, we have been learning New Tribes’ method for acquiring a language, and it is way better than memorizing and using flash cards! Yuck! In our Language and Culture class we basically were immersed in Portuguese from the […]

A Tip or a Bribe?!

May 3, 2012

In our training here in the last few weeks we have been discussing some things that we have never had to think about before! Between our Romans 12-14 class and our Culture/Language Methodology class, we had to face some hard issues. Like, how can you tell the difference between a tip and a bribe? For […]