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March 2023 Update

March 2023 Update

March 18, 2023

New Publisher Found We have been through all kinds of thoughts and emotions over the last 6 to 9 months over the delay in printing the Simbari Bible. Thankfully over the last several weeks we were able to personally establish contact with another company to print the Simbari Bible. The company is Royal Jongbloed in […]
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December 2022 Newsletter

December 2022 Newsletter

December 2, 2022

Translation Printing Delay We concluded the proofing of the translation back in May and since then have been waiting on the publisher. We expected things to happen more quickly, so we are learning patience and trusting that God has a sovereign purpose in the timing. At one point several months ago it sounded like the […]
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Bible Publishing In Progress

Bible Publishing In Progress

August 3, 2022

We finished up the proofreading of the Simbari Bible a couple months ago and have been in the process of confirming all the details with the publisher. This week the order was submitted, and the project is now in the beginning stages of production. It has all taken much longer than expected but we are […]
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2022 – The Year of the Simbari Bible

2022 – The Year of the Simbari Bible

January 18, 2022

“All I Want For Christmas Is The Simbari Bible” We are thankful to have finished proofing the digital text of the Simbari Bible by the end of 2021. As we waited for our sample hardcopies we kept thinking, “All we want for Christmas is the Simbari Bible.” Due to some delays over the holidays it […]
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December 2021 Update

December 2021 Update

December 3, 2021

Customizing Bible Maps Thank you for your prayers and support for the translation of God’s Word. We are excited to be done with most of the PDF proofing of the Simbari Bible. Our eyes have gotten fuzzy at times from long days of looking at our computer screens as we have identified thousands of small […]
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Ogg’s October Update

Ogg’s October Update

October 5, 2021

Proofing Progress We have continued to read over proofs sent to us by the formatter. The most common thing we are dealing with is entering manual hyphen breaks on the long words. But we are also looking for punctuation or text that needs adjusted. When we adjust hyphen breaks the software reflows the text and […]
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Formatting the Simbari Bible

Formatting the Simbari Bible

August 5, 2021

Simbari Translation Update We completed the textual proofing on the translation and have begun the formatting process with Doug Lotz at our home office in Florida. He has been sending us all kinds of questions about printing that we need to make decisions about. Things like: text sizes and spacings, divider lines, headers and footers, […]
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Translation publication update +video

Translation publication update +video

May 10, 2021

Simbari Translation Ready for Typesetting Thank you for praying for us as we completed proofing and checking the text of the Simbari New Testament and Old Testament portions. Since completing the consultant checking on the translation in Feb. 2020 we have been working full time on a slow proof-read checking process of all 10,000 verses […]
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April 2021 Update

April 2021 Update

April 7, 2021

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 […]
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30 years via 30 pictures

30 years via 30 pictures

February 21, 2021

Where has the time gone? As of last month we have served as missionaries to Papua New Guinea for 30 years. To summarize the years we want to share with you a Scripture portion and 30 pictures. Thanks to all of you who faithfully pray for and support our ministry. – It’s not about us, […]
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