January 26, 2002 Purpose Of The Law

January 26, 2002

Teaching Again We postponed the teaching over the holidays but started up again last Monday. David has enough translation ready now for upcoming lessons and most of the people are back in the village now. We have been really encouraged with the attendance this week which has been way up compared to when we stopped […]

December 22, 2001 – 14 Years

December 22, 2001

14 Years! Yesterday we celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary. Our co-worker Lori Morley watched all the kids so we could have a quiet dinner for two. We had salads, steak and baked potatoes with sparkling apple cider. Then we all got together for some blueberry cheesecake. We had a great time reminiscing about all the joys we […]

December 8, 2001 – Nuts

December 8, 2001

Nuts Because of a poor showing on Monday morning we put off teaching for this week. Some more would have showed if we waited long enough but it is not fair to the ones who came on time to make them wait. One reason for the poor showing is nuts. The pandanus trees up in […]

December 1, 2001 The Burden Of Sin

December 1, 2001

Sixth Week Slump This has a been a tough week. There are many forces pulling on the Simbaris right now. Domestic fights, village courts, getting ready to harvest pandanus nuts, business-economic issues, and last but not least the conviction of sin. We started out on Monday without the familiar face our friend who chose to […]

November 24, 2001 Thanksgiving

November 24, 2001

Happy Thanksgiving from the Ogg’s! Battlefront There is a spiritual battle going on for hearts here in the Simbari. God’s Word is being proclaimed, the lies of Satan are being exposed and the Spirit of God is at work. Obviously the enemy is not pleased about all this going on. Several of our most keen […]

Nov. 17, 2001 Substitutionary Death

November 17, 2001

1st Month of Teaching Completed We have been teaching every morning Monday through Friday for a month now. We are about a third of the way through this course. We started in Genesis and are up to the story of Joseph. On Monday when we got to the teaching site in the village there were […]

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 […]