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What’s the word? Since finishing up the back-translation of the book of Ruth a few weeks ago, David has been updating the Simbari lexicon and related docs. There always seems to be something more urgent that needs done but it was time to revisit the grammar and linguistics writeups for much needed updating to modern […]

Simbari Bible Dedication Video in Spanish The Spanish version of the Simbari Bible dedication video “From Flicker to Flame” is now complete. Feel free to share the link below with your Spanish-speaking friends and churches. Our hope is to bear witness in the Spanish language to the greatness of God and how he uses ordinary […]

Mexico Mission Trip We started off the new year by accepting an invitation from some friends to join them in building a small house for a needy family in Ensenada, Mexico. What a blessing it was to work alongside our friends and David’s two sisters, Ginger and Susie and get to know the family we […]

God With Us We attended the Christmas concert at our church this weekend called “God With Us” and it was wonderful. “God With Us” is the translation of the name Immanuel, the one who was prophesied about in the Old Testament. Jesus left heaven and came as a man fulfilling that promise and becoming our […]

Shari’s Mexico Misson Trip The first week of August, I had the privilege of traveling with a team of about twenty young folks and adults to Ensenada, Mexico to work with Yugo Ministries building a small, very simple house for a young family there. This is the second time I have gone with them, but […]

House Repurposing We got back over a week ago from our trip to Papua New Guinea. On top of the normal jet lag we also got sick right after we got home. We are still recovering but we wanted to update you on our trip. We spent a little over a month in the village […]

Tickets booked! We have been waiting for a while on the fuel shortage in Papua New Guinea to be resolved before going again but there does not seem to be any resolution in sight. So far our mission aviation crew has been able to source fuel another way in order to continue operations. After discussing […]

Shari’s South Asia GO Trip What an encouraging trip it was for our GO team. We are thankful to the Lord for the opportunity to be a blessing to friends from our local fellowship who have lived and served the Lord faithfully in South Asia for many years. The day after our team arrived, we […]

Roadtrip We just returned from a roadtrip to visit Shari’s family and some other friends, share at a supporting church in Iowa and to attend the wedding of our former co-worker, Lori Morley (to Joseph Smith on Sept. 21st). After the wedding we visited our son Jason and his wife Geordan and her family then […]