God, the blessed controller of our lives, is so wonderfully able to use everything for our good. How safe and secure we are in Him because of what he has done through Christ and because of who he is. We are amazed that he wants to use justified yet imperfect people like us to proclaim his gospel. Thank you Lord.
Family update
Niklas, our little blue eyed blonde boy, is very determined to attempt anything he sees his big brother do. That together with the fact that nothing seems to frighten him causes him to have many bruises and us to always jump after him. We think he is an easy child though. He is attached to his blue comfort blanket and he loves being outside (what little boy doesn’t).
Lukas is our happy, friendly boy. He loves to go to childcare, to read books and to build things with duplo blocks. With many tasks, he is a willing and great helper to us. His 3rd Birthday is often a topic of conversation for him even though he still has about 2 months to go. When he sees something written, he often sings the alphabet song and is generally interested in letters. Currently, he is suffering a mild case of chicken pox.
Special time with some 7th to 8th graders
In a few weeks, many NTM missionaries who are on furlough are going to stay at the campus of the Missionary Training Center for a week. They come together for Bible teaching, to get refreshed and encouraged, for fellowship with co-workers from other fields and to kick back and relax. We are privileged to help out with the program for the missionary kids in the 7th and 8th grade.
The kids love the youth activities
and it is encouraging to them to have time in the word
and fellowship with other Missionary kids
Computer program for missionaries
A sophisticated, yet simple to use, computer program has been developed by New Tribes Mission to help missionaries with learning the unwritten tribal languages and unknown tribal cultures. With this computer program, the Missionaries can file, cross-reference and retrieve the language and culture data they gather.
We have been very pleased to hear that one of the top priorities of the programmers is to make this program also a helpful tool for the more specific area of phonemic analysis. Dennis is working on a list of things that the computer program should be able to do in order to be most helpful for developing an alphabet.
Two more teachers
It is a real blessing to have two new linguistics teachers join our team. We have been praying for more laborers to help with the teaching load and the Lord has provided. Pray for us as we work together to improve the course and for them as they learn on the job.
Monika won’t be able to help much in the linguistics department next semester. There are too many student kids and not enough childcare workers and childcare rooms. Therefore all staff will be asked to withdraw their kids from childcare next semester. This changes things both for the linguistics department and for our family. Please pray that we would adjust well to the new situation and make the best of it.
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