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An urgent prayer request. The Manubu’ here have been making their living logging using water buffalo to haul the logs out of the jungle. But, an eye disease has spread throughout the water buffalo in our area – they are staggering around nearly blinded. It is probably a bacterial infection spread by flies. On Monday, […]

We have been back in our village for about two weeks now. Our satellite internet system started working again yesterday after being down for more than two weeks. We are so glad that it is working again. No more hauling a battery, cell signal booster, computer and other paraphernalia up to a tiny building at […]

Our former partners, Trevor and Judy, came to visit us this week. They told us that a friend of their’s in New Zealand, who is a builder, is interested in coming to repair our roof and perhaps help with other repairs and projects on our house which can’t be done by the Manubu’ without Gene’s […]

Why did God send a typhoon through our area? Only He knows all the reasons, but we can clearly see one of them. In Manubu’ areas that were hard hit, including where we live, there are unsaved Manubu’ begging to be taught God’s Word. They say, “God is angry, we’d better listen to the teaching […]

There have been few unsaved here in our village over the past couple of years who have wanted to listen to the evangelistic phase of the teaching. People living in our village have either already listened and been saved or not interested or afraid that the spirits they sacrifice to will harm them if they […]

As we write this, Libanya, is looking forward to going home to be with the Lord. You may remember him. We had a picture of him in one of our updates – a curly haired guy cranking a Saber MP3 player with Bible lessons on it. He has had numerous kidney infections over the years. […]

You may remember that we were going to look into moving to the area where Mahan’s in-laws are living in a different province and taking our translation helper, Pulding, with us so he could both help with translation and evangelize the Manubu’ in that area. Then we were disappointed to discover that Mahan’s in-laws live […]

Please continue to PRAY for Jujin. He didn’t show up for the Sunday meeting in order to ask forgiveness of his fellow believers for his going astray and quitting his teaching of the children. We have mentioned how excited we were because there might be opportunity for an outreach to start in another province that […]

Some exciting things happening here. For years we’ve been praying that somehow the believers could reach out to a another province which adjoins our’s about 4 hours from here. Recently, Mahan’s in-laws relocated to a Manubu’ village in that province because of threats being made against his father-in-law. (His father-in-law has done nothing wrong.) Mahan’s […]

Piduy and Pulding are back from looking for Manubu’ villages where there are Manubu’ who would be interested in listening to the evangelistic phase of the teaching which takes a few months to teach. They motorcycled for nearly 1000km (625 miles), mostly on dirt roads – lots of mud and slippery trails – and visited […]