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From Flicker To Flame – video

From Flicker To Flame – video

February 19, 2024

Yesterday the short documentary video about the Simbari Bible Dedication was released. You can watch it here: For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure […]
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Simbari Bible Dedication

Simbari Bible Dedication

October 9, 2023

Preparation In the months leading up to the Bible Dedication the Simbari church had sent letters of invitation to 10 different villages. Some people from these villages were threatened by a religious group that opposes the Gospel. Because of these threats the Simbari church had no idea how many people would actually show up. But […]
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Bibles Have Landed

Bibles Have Landed

September 4, 2023

We have received word that the container ship carrying the Simbari Bibles has arrived in Papua New Guinea and the palettes of Bibles have been offloaded. They are still in the port city waiting to be trucked up to our mission center in the highlands. Please pray that they will be delivered soon. Prepping for […]
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Simbari Bible Publishing Completed

Simbari Bible Publishing Completed

June 5, 2023

Praise God, the printing of the Simbari Bible is now complete! We have received copies of the finished Bibles and inspected them. They are very high quality and they turned out even better than we thought they would. The main shipment for Papua New Guinea will depart the Netherlands in about a week and should […]
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Digital Proofs & Drafting Ruth

Digital Proofs & Drafting Ruth

March 18, 2023

New Publisher Found We have been through all kinds of thoughts and emotions over the last 6 to 9 months over the delay in printing the Simbari Bible. Thankfully over the last several weeks we were able to personally establish contact with another company to print the Simbari Bible. The company is Royal Jongbloed in […]
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Bible Lessons & Another Grandchild!

Bible Lessons & Another Grandchild!

August 3, 2022

We finished up the proofreading of the Simbari Bible a couple months ago and have been in the process of confirming all the details with the publisher. This week the order was submitted, and the project is now in the beginning stages of production. It has all taken much longer than expected but we are […]
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“All I Want For Christmas Is The Simbari Bible”

“All I Want For Christmas Is The Simbari Bible”

January 18, 2022

We are thankful to have finished proofing the digital text of the Simbari Bible by the end of 2021. As we waited for our sample hardcopies we kept thinking, “All we want for Christmas is the Simbari Bible.” Due to some delays over the holidays it didn’t arrive until January. In the meantime David kept […]
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Remembering A Beloved Co-Worker

Remembering A Beloved Co-Worker

December 3, 2021

Customizing Bible Maps Thank you for your prayers and support for the translation of God’s Word. We are excited to be done with most of the PDF proofing of the Simbari Bible. Our eyes have gotten fuzzy at times from long days of looking at our computer screens as we have identified thousands of small […]
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Five People Groups

Five People Groups

October 5, 2021

Proofing Progress We have continued to read over proofs sent to us by the formatter. The most common thing we are dealing with is entering manual hyphen breaks on the long words. But we are also looking for punctuation or text that needs adjusted. When we adjust hyphen breaks the software reflows the text and […]
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Formatting the Simbari Bible

Formatting the Simbari Bible

August 5, 2021

Simbari Translation Update We completed the textual proofing on the translation and have begun the formatting process with Doug Lotz at our home office in Florida. He has been sending us all kinds of questions about printing that we need to make decisions about. Things like: text sizes and spacings, divider lines, headers and footers, […]
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Simbari Bible Dedication Video

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