Looking Forward to Returning

February 2, 2017

We have received good news in relation to our temporary management of the New Tribes Mission guesthouse here on our island. You may remember that the couple who have been managing the guesthouse for the past year returned to the States in October for family reasons. It was questionable as to whether or not they […]

Monica the talker

December 8, 2016

In our last update we asked you to pray for ten year old Monica who has had a speech impediment since birth. After surgery and a number of days of recuperation in the city she has now returned home with her father, Pulding. We have been taking care of the New Tribes guesthouse here on […]

God Worked it Out

November 10, 2016

This story is amazing. We asked to pray for Monica, daughter of Pulding who is our translation helper. It just so happened that unbeknown to Pulding and us also the timing of Monica’s arrival at German Doctor’s Hospital in the city coincided with a team of surgical specialists from Germany being at another free hospital […]

Clearance Urgently Needed

October 31, 2016

We read in Ezra 1:1, “Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia…..” Throughout scripture we see God working in the hearts and minds of unsaved people in […]

Some Exciting Things and Carol Update

September 23, 2016

In our last update we said that we would share with you some exciting things about one of the lowland Manubu’ churches. It’s in a small village, but we’ll call it the church at Big K because that’s easy to remember. That church was one of the first Manubu’ churches – started about 25 years […]

Good Helicopter News, Carol, and Proverbs

September 9, 2016

In our last update we said that the Water Board for the town where our guesthouse is has agreed to lease some land they oversee to NTMA (New Tribes Mission Aviation) for a helicopter landing pad and hangar. They have now approved the lease fee offered by NTMA. Thanks for praying – what a relief […]

Carol Update and Land for the Bird

August 24, 2016

Carol saw the doctor on Monday and the endoscopy was performed. No ulcer and no cancer seen. The diagnosis was that she has a bacterial infection called H. Pylori which we had expected because she has had it before and nothing else was seen as the possible cause of her problem for which we are […]

Carol and Howie and Proverbs

August 20, 2016

Carol has an appointment tomorrow for an upper endoscopy as a step for diagnosis of why she has been having stomach problems for a number of weeks now. Please *PRAY* for diagnosis of the problem and a solution. Only four more Proverbs chapters to translate! Mahan has already started teaching Proverbs to the believers in […]

Howie Update

August 14, 2016

Our daughter, Michelle, wrote: “Seven long hours at the hospital and now we are back in our camper. I just took a few minutes to walk up to the beach and check out the sunset. The ocean is my happy place. The CAT scan with dye showed that both arteries in his neck are completely […]

Urgent – pray for our daughter

August 12, 2016

Our daughter, Michelle, and her husband, Howie, have been traveling all summer in the northern mid and western US hauling a 5th wheel camper with their truck. Yesterday she wrote: “Please pray. I don’t know what’s going on but yesterday afternoon Howie started acting strange. I had a hard time understanding him. He mixes words […]