Author: Gene and Carol Trudeau

First, just a little sidebar on the life of tribal missionaries. For about three weeks in January we were out in town and for most of that time watching over our mission guesthouse here on our island while others attended our NTM annual conference. We flew back to our village mid January. Two days later […]

Gene had blisters on his hands from fighting the steering wheel through and around mud holes and deep muddy truck tracks. Carol had sore toes and teeth from clenching them every time she looked out her window and saw that because of going around a deep mud hole her side of the truck was along […]

Both of our Manubu’ dialect New Testaments have been printed and sewn and are now awaiting covers. After that they will be shrink wrapped and shipped to us. Philippine Bible society expects that we will have them in hand before the middle of December. [cid:7.1.0.9.2.20111027215038.03463588@ntm.org.0] We have mentioned that while in Manila we would go […]

First, Thanks for praying for Pulding and Telmon – Pulding was able to get his license to drive a motorcycle, and Telmon was able to upgrade to professional. It took three days and a lot of money, but they have them. We have mentioned in our last two updates about Telmon and his wife planning […]

Just a couple of items for prayer. Pulding, our primary translation helper, is the one who checks out our Bible lessons and scripture translation (now it will be Old Testament 🙂 ) with Manubu’ in the lowland dialect. Because he doesn’t have a license to drive a motorcycle it has meant that Mahan or Telmon […]

We finished proof reading and revising some things in our two Manubu’ New Testament translations this past Monday and have sent the revised files to Philippine Bible Society (PBS). They expect to have new films made of those pages and new proofs ready to send to us to check over in about two weeks. It […]

Good news! The proofs of our two New Testaments arrived today from Philippine Bible Society (PBS) – about three weeks later than expected! But, they are finally here. Proofs are a rough printing used to check if everything is okay. The past few days while waiting for the delayed proofs we have been once again […]

Just a little update on the printing of the Manubu’ New Testaments – two of them – two different dialects. The Philippine Bible Society (PBS) has finished the films and are almost finished with proofs of the pages. If all goes well they will send them to us down here in Mindanao next week via […]

It was scary to send our two New Testament Manubu’ translations off to the Philippine Bible Society (PBS) to be printed as real Bibles rather than the big, two volume laser printed ones we’ve had. It is God’s Word that we’re dealing with here and after weeks of complicated formatting and converting to PDF files […]

We have finished proof reading our New Testament translation in both dialects :-). Carol expects to finish formatting the mountain dialect NT in about two more days. Gene has started scrolling through mountain dialect files to see if there are any problems in the formatting. Carol has already done this, but asked Gene to do […]