Category: Home Assignment

Home Assignment & Video

Home Assignment & Video

During these last few months since returning to California we continue making the most of our time with family, friends and churches and have had many opportunities to share about our ministry with the Simbari. We are including a link to a video of a Simbari man’s testimony that we have been showing. In the […]
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Summer Road-Trip Debrief

Summer Road-Trip Debrief

We are safely back from our 10,354 mile road trip. We had one near miss in Oklahoma when a tire came off a big rig and God protected us. We are so thankful to have been able to reconnect with many family, friends and churches all over the country. Even with all those miles on […]
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Pray For Translation Check

Pray For Translation Check

Translation Check We have an important final check with a translation consultant scheduled for May 6-20th so we would appreciate prayer for that to go well. We are bringing translation helpers from the city and out from the tribe to our location here then we all will be flying together to the other side of […]
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Family News

Family News

John Ogg’s Injury and Recovery As most of you know we arrived in the USA for home assignment in July and right after landing we received the news that David’s father had fallen and broken his neck at the C-2 vertebrae. Much of our time during the first few months home was spent in and […]
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Home Assignment & PNG News

Home Assignment & PNG News

Recently we received a call from a Simbari Bible teacher in Papua New Guinea named Rison. Rison is the father of Gwandambi, the boy with the leg infection. He had good news for us about Gwandambi’s progress since his trip out to town to see the doctor. The doctor prescribed a new treatment program including […]
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Home Assignment 2013

Home Assignment 2013

  “How we thank God for you! Because of you we have great joy as we enter God’s presence. Night and day we pray earnestly for you, asking God to let us see you again to fill the gaps in your faith. May God our Father and our Lord Jesus bring us to you very […]
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Acts Translation Finished and Home Assignment Begins

Acts Translation Finished and Home Assignment Begins

Dear Friends, These have been exciting days to be working in the Simbari. Our first outreach to was completed with about 1/2 of those who attended trusting in Christ as their Savior. Around that time we began to teach through the book of Acts and God laid it on the hearts of the Simbari believers […]
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One Outreach Done And Another Begins

One Outreach Done And Another Begins

After many months of teaching through the Bible, the final lessons
presenting the death, burial and resurrection of Christ were taught this
week. It was so thrilling to hear the message of Grace so clearly
communicated by the two Simbari teachers.
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June 2004 – Arrival in PNG

June 2004 – Arrival in PNG

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 […]
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