August 2, 2004 Mission School

August 2, 2004

“Dorm Raid!” We took Esther and Simon out to school last week and they are all settled into the dorm. School started on Wednesday last week and they have been doing great. Here is part of an e-mail we just got from Esther. “Today we raided the Ryder dorm. Uncle Stu yelled out, “dorm raid!!!” […]

July 2004 Settling In

July 17, 2004

“Why Is It Raining?” Our first attempt to get back in the tribe ended up being a sight-seeing trip. The weather was so bad the plane had to take us back to Goroka. The next morning we got in along with 2 more flights for our suitcases and supplies like food, etc. The following weeks […]

June 2004 – Arrival in PNG

June 1, 2004

We arrived back in Papua New Guinea on May 29th. Looking back on our time, we are thankful for all the opportunities the Lord gave us to share His love and His work during the last year. It was such an encouragement to see God’s people get excited about missions and desire to get more […]

September 2003 – Road Trip

September 22, 2003

Here’s some pictures of our summer trip

May 2003 Consultant Check of Mark

May 13, 2003

Final Translation Check Starting Today our final check on the book of Mark starts. A translation consultant will be coming in and we will be working on the check for about a week. Right now the field is very short of Translation Consultants but Linda Krieg generously offered to do the check for us even though she has been […]

February 2003 – Hunger

February 10, 2003

Language Our co-worker Lori Morley passed her final language fluency check recently. She will now be able to be a part of the translation process. She is already helping out by doing comprehension testing of the book of Mark. She will continue working with literacy as well. She is also working on some more books so the people can get more reading practice after […]

December 2002 – Translation Workshop

December 15, 2002

Translation Workshop We just got back from a Bible translation workshop out in the town of Goroka. Bible translators from all over PNG and some other countries as well attended and we received very practical training in the latest methods of Bible translation. We all brought translation helpers out of the bush with us and […]

October 26, 2002 “Jesus Loves Me” song

October 26, 2002

Jesus Loves Me…the Bible tells me so! We have been encouraging the new believers to write songs in their own language that lift up their Savior. They really like to sing and over the last several months they have come up with several new songs and translated others that they heard at a PNG believers […]

October 13, 2002 Translation of Mark

October 13, 2002

Our co-worker Lori Morley with the new Simbari Literacy Teachers Manual Translation of Mark finished David has been busy with translation and just finished the draft of the Gospel of Mark. There is still some further proofing and checking before we can distribute it to the people. David needs to get some more Bible lessons translated right […]

September 26, 2002 Update

September 26, 2002

New Faith After many months of teaching through the Word of God, the Gospel was presented in early May 2002. For the Gospel presentation we had approximately 50 people in attendance. But only half of those were regular attenders who really seemed interested in God’s Word. We are not sure yet, but it appears that maybe […]