Category: Ministry

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

California Team rebuilding co-worker Lori Morley’s house We have a team from California here for 3 weeks to help relocate our co-worker Lori Morley’s house from across the airstrip to near our house. For security reasons our team decided it would be better to have Lori nearby where she is not alone. Several weeks ago […]

The Gospel presented to the Simbari Most of the regulars gathered for our meeting on a beautiful Monday morning. The politician who had been here the week before left on a walk-a-bout taking some of the crowds with him. But at least the political campaigning did not hinder us and no mentally disturbed people were causing distractions either. Most of […]

Suicide Thursday morning we woke up to a lot of noise around the village. It turns out that a man from a nearby village had committed suicide by hanging. He had just had a fight with his wife and he had been injured during the fight. He was ashamed, miserable, and without hope. For those who have not […]