April Showers

May 2, 2016

April was crazy busy and the one-after-the-other string of events continued right up until the end of the month. Last week our neighbor, Nora, died and the village had a wake that lasted several nights. Nora suffered from a long term illness and doctors didn’t know how to help her. Back when she was still […]

May Praise and Prayer

May 2, 2016

Praise: Continued outreaches Literacy class over – more people able to read Dom Solar System installation finished Arrival of our partners Pray For: Two New Outreaches Students for new Literacy Class to start in June Jim, Gena and Kapia as they work at going through the New Testament corrections Gerolf in Culture and Language […]

Plans

May 2, 2016

It doesn’t seem like there’s a lot to write about, since we are here in the states. But we have been visiting our supporting churches and continuing to help Alisha’s mom at home. Even though I am anxious to get back to AP, it is good for us to be here now. I will be […]

Answered Prayer, Thank You!!

May 1, 2016

Thank you everyone for your prayers, we’ve made a decision! We have decided to leave for Papua New Guinea this summer. We have peace with this decision and Joel and Grace are thrilled to get back there. Tickets for the main leg of the journey have been bought. Praise the Lord that the air mile […]

FW: Going Off-Road

April 30, 2016

We are back! Our month-long road trip through the eastern and southern US is over. We enjoyed so much wonderful hospitality from many of you, and we enjoyed meeting with our supporting churches and individuals – many of them for the first time! We were blessed by the enthusiasm with which our reports were met, […]

Found in Translation

April 27, 2016

“I stayed up all night reading my new Bible because reading it in my own language was just so sweet I couldn’t stop.” Jaspa (said the day after we handed out portions of completed scriptures) Church Development is incomplete without Scriptures translated into the heart language. Imagine trying to relate with the heavenly Father or […]

“Teach us to Number our Days”

April 26, 2016

“Mommy! Mommy!” My day starts each morning at 7:15 with the high-pitched screech of an eagle— I mean toddler— and from that moment until both kids are in bed, the day feels nonstop. Each moment is filled with feeding, dressing, playing with, or teaching somebody— not to mention spending time working on raising our support […]

I bet you can guess

April 25, 2016

In my last post, I said that when I got back from my vacation I’d post a few pictures and then you’d know where I went. Well, here you go! If you can’t figure it out, I think that you’ll need to go back to history class. 🙂 Yes, Jen rode on him and I […]

A Family Week

April 25, 2016

My family braved the double digit flights hours, transits in strange lands, and airplane food to come and see us for a week. To me this was an unbelievable feat since my dad is always balancing preaching and running the safe and lock shops, which makes for very little down time. But they made it, and […]

Twist

April 24, 2016

You twist a language learner, translator, village preacher and a jack of all trades together laced with several years and one can see what it takes to reach the unreached with the gospel message. Eternity will only tell the whole story but reminiscing in the tribe where it all got started is a reward that […]