The Dao village was buzzing with the big news. Wakayoo, a very prominent Dao man, was on his way to perform a “Spirit Chasing.” He was come to speak incantations and perform rituals so no one in the village would get sick from evil spirits. You see, he had heard that ever since Wikipai, a […]
Can you ever have too much Bible? Maybe. Right now, NTM missionaries have 30 Bible translations in progress in Papua New Guinea. A total of 21,000 verses are ready to be checked, so they can be published and used. Great news, right? Not if you’re waiting for the verses to be checked, like one tribal […]
Did you ever want to just set someone straight? Somebody did something last week that was discouraging to me. I know that wasn’t intentional, but I also know the way it was handled fell short of the biblical admonition to “encourage one another.” So I started thinking about how I should express that to them. […]
God was already working. Before we even wrote to you Thursday … before we decided Wednesday to pay our daughter’s $1,1162 college bill … before she even came to us with her need … He already had an answer in the works. Yesterday, a couple who knew nothing about our need gave $1,000 to our […]
You don’t want to deny your kids opportunities, right? That’s why it troubled me so much to have to tell my youngest daughter we couldn’t help her. After a disastrous first year of college, she had to appeal to re-enroll this semester. Now she’s getting straight As. But Sunday she told us she needed $1,162 […]
No one said a word for a full five minutes. In a room full of 700 college students, there were always people talking, oblivious to what was going on in the Reality Conference. But not after AWAYO was shown. After one of the first public showings of the film you helped make possible, you could […]
That’s the answer to a problem that has hindered ministry among the Guahibo people for 30 years. And it was made possible by something that might seem small, perhaps even trivial.
We had expected Jackie, our oldest daughter, back in the office helping to write today, but she still wasn’t up to it. Please keep praying that she can get her vertigo under control.