November 11, 2001 Understanding The OT

November 11, 2001

Ups And Downs Monday started out a little rough. It was a cold and cloudy morning and when we got to the teaching area it looked like only 2 or 3 people were going to show. So we waited a while and people started straggling in little by little. We ended up with about 25 […]

November 3, 2001 The Fall Of Man

November 3, 2001

Lessons & Literacy People are continuing to be interested in the printed lessons and many seem to be spending time reviewing them. They have already received over 100 pages of lessons. But by receiving them lesson by lesson right after I have taught, then they can remember what I taught and it helps them when […]

October 2001 Teaching Day Set

October 17, 2001

Community Trouble Settled The trouble that caused us to postpone teaching was settled today. The whole issue had escalated way out of proportion but, thankfully, an agreement was reached today that was more than we could have hoped for. The whole issue just seemed to build the peoples respect for us and afterward the people […]

October 2001 Prep For Teaching

October 13, 2001

Literacy Materials Complete The preparation of literacy teaching materials took longer than we had anticipated but we finally got it off to the printers. However, we found that they were very short-handed and that we would have to wait in line (possibly for months) before they could get to our job. So David had to […]

Waiting for Ogg Baby #4

January 5, 2001

As you know we are home now for Ogg baby #4 and his or her expected arrival is Jan. 20th. This time home has been a good opportunity to be able to catch up on some much needed dental work for the whole family. Including some orthodontic work for Simon. Esther also got her eyes […]

August 2000 Finished Translating OT Bible Lessons

August 9, 2000

We are busy translating the evangelism phase of our chronological teaching curriculum. I just finished the last Old Testament lesson (42 of 68). The last few lessons dealt with the prophets and bridging the gap to the New Testament. As my translation helper worked with me he was really convicted by those lessons teaching about […]

May 2000 – Translation Started

May 2, 2000

David passed his final language check on March 27 and has started translating Bible lessons in preparation for teaching chronologically to our whole village this coming fall. The first phase of chronological lessons build Biblical foundations using Old Testament stories that reveal the character of God and principles such as the lost ness and helplessness […]

March 2000 Tractor Arrival And Some History

March 26, 2000

History Of The Work In The Simbari Our co-worker Dennis Best started working in the Simbari (pop. 4000) in 1967. Steve Carruth and his family joined the team in 1976. About 10 years later, after learning the Simbari language, Steve prepared Bible lessons while Dennis started translating Bible portions. in 1988 Steve taught through the […]

October 1999 – Language Checks

October 24, 1999

We just finished up 4 days of checking Shari and our co-worker Lori Morley in their progress towards fluency in the Simbari language. The checking went well and now Shari will be working towards her last fluency check. (Lori M. will be moving on to level 3 studies) Shari and I took this check before […]

May 1999 – A Typical Day

May 21, 1999

Dear Friends, We have been back in our regular schedule for nearly a month now. We are mostly done with our house and the work that is left will be saved for weekend projects. Esther, Simon and Rachel have been enjoying their homeschooling experience. They recently went out to the mission school near Goroka and […]