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Merry Christmas from the Oggs

Merry Christmas from the Oggs

Warm Greetings this Christmas from the Ogg Family to your family. Merry Christmas 2017 from the Oggs from David & Shari Ogg on Vimeo. Please pray for the Simbari church to continue to shine the Light of Jesus to those around them. Love, David and Shari Ogg and family
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David’s Father Recovering From Broken Neck

David’s Father Recovering From Broken Neck

So far this home assignment has been like no other with so much time spent in hospitals, including our own medical exams and procedures to catch up on which seem a bit more numerous at our age. But even with all that has been happening we are still having some good opportunities to share about […]
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Ellen’s Testimony

Ellen’s Testimony

We recently received an audio recording from a Simbari believer named Ellen. She was full of emotion as she shared these words which we just finished translating from Simbari into English. My name is Ellen and I’m going to share my testimony with you. Very good. When I was young and my mother and father […]
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Preliminary Draft Of Simbari New Testament Complete!

Preliminary Draft Of Simbari New Testament Complete!

Preliminary Simbari Translation draft complete! We are excited to report that David just completed the preliminary draft of the Simbari New Testament! (We started this translation draft about 13 years ago) Note the word, “Preliminary” which means the most difficult step of the process is complete but there are still many rigorous proofing and checking […]
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Training, Translation And A Drone

Training, Translation And A Drone

Back in January a friend’s drone captured some aerial shots of our tribe. In the above photo is our airstrip with the mission plane on the ground in front of our bush house and the tribal church building just across from the plane. At this stage, with the church becoming more mature we don’t live […]
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Drafting James & Moving A House

Drafting James & Moving A House

  Gwandambi, the Simbari boy who had a bone infection, has continued to make good progress. His cast has been removed and one of our mission’s physical therapists is helping him to regain motion and build up strength in the leg. He is walking with a cane now instead of crutches. Around Christmas many Simbari […]
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Drafting Hebrews – NT 91% Drafted

Drafting Hebrews – NT 91% Drafted

During our recent trip to the village it was great to see the church functioning well on their own. They have elders and deacons functioning and even the kids are participating! They were taking up offerings that included food items like greens, sweet potato and squash as well as some coins so that they can […]
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Finding Encouragement In God’s Grace

Finding Encouragement In God’s Grace

Church Mobility In past updates we have shared about how many of the tribal believers are more mobile now coming and going to the cities. This continues to be true, not just in the Simbari tribe but in many other rural areas as well. Last week the Simbari believers living in the capital city of […]
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Consultant Trip To Wantakia

Consultant Trip To Wantakia

We just got back from a trip to the remote Wantakia tribe to help a new missionary church planting team there get started in their CLA (Culture and Language Aquisition). It is exciting that three new families have moved in to this tribe in order to bring the Word of God to these remote people in […]
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Gwandambi Discharged From Hospital

Gwandambi Discharged From Hospital

Gwandambi, a 13-year-old Simbari boy, has been fighting a bone infection in his leg since August 2012. For the last 10 months he has been in a hospital a few hours away where there is a bone specialist on staff. Finally his condition started to improve. A framework of metal rods was attached to his […]
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