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It’s going slowly. That is, preparation for the printing of our NT translation. We had hoped to have it ready to print by the middle of this month, but proofreading is taking longer than expected. The Manubu’ language can’t be proofread as fast as English as affixation makes for many long words that can’t just […]

In our last update we wrote, “Please PRAY for Mahan. He is one of our translation helpers and is also the Bible teacher teaching the believers here in our village. He is in the hospital. Has been sick for a number of days. They don’t know yet what is wrong with him, but a nurse […]

Please PRAY for Mahan. He is one of our translation helpers and is also the Bible teacher teaching the believers here in our village. He is in the hospital. Has been sick for a number of days. They don’t know yet what is wrong with him, but a nurse thinks it might be typhoid. We’re […]

We praise God for the Manubu’ men He has raised up to teach the believers in our village (and elsewhere too). We just sit in awe as we listen to them explain scripture, puling together verses that the Holy Spirit has shown them that apply to what they are teaching. A few Sundays ago, Pulding […]

Maricel represents our village to the government. She came yesterday to have us scan a form and print some copies of it. As she was leaving to go home she left a note on the counter in our office. The note said (in Manubu’), “Older sister and older brother, we will have been married 13 […]

Greetings. A belated Merry Christmas. With the kids here in the Philippines on vacation, and the kids out in the towns and cities crowding into the internet cafes and on their home computers our internet server has been jammed up so email not working real well. We spent Christmas here in our house in the […]

When the Manubu’ people in a village which we call 24 reached the lesson about Jesus dying on the cross to pay the penalty for all of our sins, they all started crying – from the youngest to the oldest. In the 25 years we have been here with the Manubu’ people we have never […]

Mahan and his wfie, Arsisa, went to the village we call Uno this past Sunday to begin teaching the evangelistic phase of the teaching program. Two people from the two families who had said they wanted to listen did listen to the first lesson. There were a number of other people who said they would […]

Greetings. Thanks for praying about the people at the village we call Uno – that they would desire to listen to the evangelistic phase of the teaching. A group of Bible teachers and other believers from here in our village went to Uno earlier this week. They met up there with Dunlik, the Bible teacher […]

In our update we sent out yesterday we stated the following: “For such a large group like this to travel together to the lowlands is unusual. The chances of this happening at just the right time to help us are pretty slim. So was this coincidence? We don’t think so. We think it was help […]