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“For this is our God for ever and ever; He will be our guide even to the end.” Psalm 48:14 Have you ever watched the movie “A Series of Unfortunate Events”? If you have not, don’t bother. If you have and love it, please don’t be offended. I am terrible at remembering movies, but I […]

Supporting Tribal Church Planting in Papua New Guinea “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” -Matt.11:29 In the nineteenth century there was a famous Scottish pastor named Robert Murray M’Cheyne.  He graduated from college at age fourteen, […]

Dear faithful prayer partners, We continue to struggle with the slow internet. So, please accept our apology for the lack of consistent updates. The past few weeks have been pretty crazy trying to get into a routine and making time to meet one on one with the 10 families we are responsible for. We are […]

Our Situation: In Ephesians 4:26 we are commanded, “Be angry and sin not.” If you really were honest with yourself, can you ever think of a time when you were angry, and did not sin in your heart? Personally I don’t think I can. So, what is righteous anger? And how often have we justified […]

Keriau River Survey Hello friends and family, we wanted to send you all an update and we realize it has been a while. We were hoping to wait until after the survey trip that Eric was able to participate in and that trip was postponed a couple of times but here we are….finally. We were […]

Check out our Spring update at the Mailchimp link below!! Thank you so much for your continued prayers and support for our family!! <3 https://mailchi.mp/8223584d740e/spring-update-from-the-deals

Recently I had the amazing privilege to speak to a group of ladies that are near and dear to my heart. We spent a beautiful, sunny, breezy Saturday together in God’s Word, enjoying good fellowship, worship, and food. Someone managed to snap this picture during one of my sessions and it spoke a sweet, strong, […]

I once read a story in which limpets featured as an example. These tenacious sea creatures are extremely difficult to pry off of rocks because they latch onto them with such force.  Late last night, or early this morning, it occurred to me that I would very much like to be like a limpet.  Life […]

Translation Update Over a year ago we began an in-depth proofreading and revision process of all 10,000+ verses that have been translated to date. Most of the ‘revisions’ were just small adjustments to the text for it to flow more naturally. We are happy to report that we have completed that step of the preparations […]

The water is cut. It’s early in the morning and it’s out again. We have a bucket, so we should be fine for a while.  Eventually the bucket runs out and I go to the reservoir, only to realize that we have forgotten to fill it up. It’s almost empty and suddenly the water shortage […]