Dear Friends and Family;
Praise the Lord! Caleb is 12lbs 2 1/2 oz!!! that is an impressive gain of over 1 lb since the first of January!!! We have started calling him “Bubba” in honor of his new, filled-out look 🙂 We just got back from a Doctor appointment and the Doctor is very pleased with his progress. We also got the results of a lab he had done and it shows that his fat absorption is now within normal range. Any of you who have been following Caleb know what a HUGE blessing this is! Our Doctor still wants us to go see the specialist in Denver this next week but said she feels he will probably give us the “all clear” to return to Indonesia at the end of March!!!!!!! Caleb and I will be flying down to Denver on Tuesday and returning Saturday morning. Please pray for our travels and for Greg and the kids as they are here without us.
Greg also had a Doctor appointment with a neurologist this week. He feels that Greg’s numb fingers were caused by shingles and said it could take up to a year for those nerves to regenerate. He wants to do a MRI on Monday of next week to make sure that there is nothing else going on.
For those of you who have been praying for my niece who was shot in the eye with a pellet gun, please continue to pray for her as she deals with the loss of her eyesight in that eye and also pray for her spiritually.
The other kids are doing well. They are in swim lessons (we thought it would be more useful that ice skating lessons given the Indonesian climate 🙂 and Awana. Those two things alone keep us hopping. They just received mid term reports and are all doing well in school. Gracie’s mid term said, “Grace is every teacher’s dream! No one is sweeter . .I want 15 more just like her!!” We are so proud 🙂
Greg is plugging away at the Bible translation and making good progress. We are chomping at the bit to get back to Indonesia and get the material checked and into the hands of the people. Just imagine if you sat down to read the Bible one morning and the words looked like this:
Kanaun Gosat fidi Markus 2
Geba bir-mata gosa
1 Sepo fidi, beuk beton lalen pil-pila sa gam dita, tu di Yesus iko sakik gam di Kapernaum, habar eblaba fen Ringe ma di huma. 2 Fidi pa gebar taga epsulun fidi huma ha di Ring baeptea eta elet sa tehuk moo, bae fi di hinolon bu elet sa moo. Pa tu di Yesus dohik Opo Nak liet wahan la sira hede, 3 gebar taga, pa gebar paa fidi sira dada geba birmata nain kahan sa gam di Yesus. 4 Bu sir eguh beta geba dii gam di Yesus moo, wahan geba demen dii. Petu sir loho abat bet-beta tu Yesus Nake elet, pa sir tatik geba birmatan, tu nak kadada dii. 5 Tu di Yesus kitah sira bapake Ringe dii, Ringe prepak la geba birmatan dii fen: “Nang anate, nam dosa dii, do Ya ampong haik. 6 Bu fidi dii, geba ka-toke agama pil-pila baeptea ma di, pa sir caan Yesus prepak gam di, petu du odo lalen: 7 “Gam doo sepe geba naa prepak gam dii? Ring iik Oplastala! Bara Oplastala emhewak moo, do sane ampong beta dosa?” 8 Bu Yesus tewa fidi sir odo gam di, petu Ring nika sira fen: “Emkua pa kimi odo gam dii fidi lalen nim dii? 9 Ii ha doo dape, prepak la geba birmata naa fen: ‘kanam dosa Ya ampong haik’, pi prepak fen: ‘hosak, la ku tuuk kanam kadada, pa iko’? 10 Bu Ya prepak naa la kimi tewa, fi naa junai lalen naa do Ana Mhansia Nak kawasa la ampong beta dosa”. Petu Yesus prepak la geba birmatan dii: 11 “Yako prepak la kae, hosak, tuuk kanam embage elen, pa ku oli gam di kanam huma!” 12 Petu geba dii hosak, pa da tuuk nake embage elen, pa da suba gam ak gidan fi di gebaro dii pupan lalen. Tu di sir kitah dii, do gebar dii helak, pa du seba Oplastala fen, “Ii gam naa, do ma kitah sala mohede.”
not very enlightening, is it? But this is what it would feel like for our Buru friends to try to grow and study using a Bible in a language other than their own!
We appreciate each of you and the vital role you play in our ministry. It is an honor to be entrusted with reaching the Buru people for Christ. Thanks you so much for your prayers, support , and encouragement!
In Him;
Greg and Pam Berglund
Nate, Hannah, Grace, Katie, and Caleb
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