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Greetings. In our last update we said, “Please also PRAY for our newly saved son-in-law, Howie. He has a severe back problem, is in a lot of pain, and his company insurance may not pay for the needed surgery because he hasn’t been with that company very long.” The insurance company since then has said […]

Greetings. We said in an earlier update that there are three saved young men whom Mahan is disciplining to teach God’s Word. They are helping him teach the evangelistic phase to forty unsaved young people. Mahan is very pleased with the progress his disciples are making. One, Jhosua, has been away for couple of weeks […]

There are a number of people here in our village and surrounding area with TB and more keep getting it. In order to get medicine (which is free) from the government they are required to have a chest x-ray to be sure that the problem is TB. And then after taking medicine for a few […]

Some great news! We recently received the following message from New Tribes Mission Aviation (NTMA) – “We have long felt a helicopter would be the best fit for the region (that’s our island 🙂 ), but have not felt the timing was right to pursue it until now. We have decided to begin the process […]

We have been back here in our tribal village for a little more than two weeks now. Gene and Pulding have been able to do a final revision in the mountain dialect of twelve of the forty two evangelistic Bible lessons. Carol has converted them to the lowland dialect and our Manubu’ translation helpers in […]

Although we have a nice room here at the New Tribes Mission guest house in town, a nice reasonable cost hotel room when in the city, and even a nice big, bright room when in the hospital in the city, we are really looking forward to FINALLY getting back to our home in our tribal […]

It has now been nearly two weeks since Gene had a pacemaker implanted. The pain from surgery is gone now. He still has to be careful for at least a couple of weeks yet to not raise the arm on that side above shoulder level. His heart rate has been running much faster than the […]

Greetings. Gene’s pacemaker was “interrogated” this morning by the representative of the pacemaker distributor. It is working properly in all respects. Dr Rocha, the cardiologist who implanted it, took off the bandaging this afternoon and no infection in sight. Gene has his arm in a sling so it’s a bit awkward. He’s feeling good and […]

Just a quick update. It was decided not to admit Gene to the hospital today. He will be admitted tomorrow morning with pacemaker implantation to take place 8am Thursday morning (8pm Wednesday US east coast time). Thanks for your prayers. Another item to pray for is that he not have a malaria relapse the day […]

Just received a phone call from the cardiologist, Dr Rocha, who will implant Gene’s pacemaker. Because of Gene’s stroke, Dr Rocha wants to implant the pacemaker as soon as possible. So, tomorrow morning (Monday night US east coast time) Gene will be admitted to the hospital to be checked out for things such as infection […]