Author: Jack and Jane Housley

Who will fill our shoes? One man a language learner and gifted church planter the other man not a good language learner but a church planter in his own right. He does whatever it takes to keep the team moving forward to the completion of the church. Just men that love the Lord and have […]

The river, fast and wild, cuddled our mission airstrip for 1600 feet then made a big bend on the lower end where the strip T boned the river with a ten foot drop off. I had always been fearful of running our mission tractor off the end of the strip as I mowed the grass […]

Training starts early Steven and Bill two of the finest church planters, communicators and National trainers I know started working with people at a young age. The two boys are pictured together in a village near our mission school many years ago on outreach with Mr Dave Lawrence a village missionary turned teacher but still […]

It was 1980 and I lay huddled under the mosquito net, my guardian angel that will keep watch over me through the long hot night. Hundreds of buzzing mosquitoes sing in harmony outside the net waiting for the feast coming later when in sleep my hand as always drops against the net. The sound of […]

You twist a language learner, translator, village preacher and a jack of all trades together laced with several years and one can see what it takes to reach the unreached with the gospel message. Eternity will only tell the whole story but reminiscing in the tribe where it all got started is a reward that […]

I love pictures and love to take pictures and yes a good picture goes a long way and maybe worth a thousand words, but a thousand words without a good translation to preach the gospel is much like a picture, it will fade with time. The time and cost of giving tribal people a good […]

The Bible tells us in the beginning of the book of John that the Word became flesh and dwelled among us. Jesus Christ was the Word that became flesh and He tells us that just as the Father has sent Him He sends the disciples and us as well. The Apostle Paul tells us in […]