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\"\"Our adventure began in 1999 when together we committed ourselves to the Lord\u2019s hands to be used in reaching the unreached.\u00a0 There are thousands upon thousands of souls who were living in darkness, whose lives and voices were not bringing Him the glory He deserves, and we felt a great responsibility for the knowledge we had of specific regions of the world where His Name had not yet been preached in Truth.\u00a0 The power for salvation is in the gospel, not in man\u2019s wisdom or strategies, and certainly not in our own weaknesses of body and mind.\u00a0 We knew this was a job too large and impossible for us.\u00a0 Yet if God could be glorified in our weaknesses\u2026<\/p>\n

Individually, we committed ourselves to the Lord to be used full time for bringing others to Himself in whatever capacity He chose.\u00a0 These commitments led us to New Tribes Bible Institute in Jackson, Michigan, where we met and fell in love.\u00a0 Through much prayer, meditation on the Word and counsel, the Lord made it clear that He was leading us to continue the journey together.\u00a0 We then committed to serving the Lord and each other, and were married on June 13, 1998.<\/p>\n

As we continued through the training, He led us to partner with like-minded friends who also had a desire to glorify God with their lives by reaching the unreached.\u00a0 We prayed for the Lord to lead us and our team to a people who did not know Him, who did not understand His Word, and who had no translation of the Bible in their own language.\u00a0 Dauntingly, there were many places to choose from.\u00a0 But in 2003, by His grace, He clearly directed us to a small tribal group called the Dinangat, located high up in the Finisterre Mountain Ranges in the Morobe Province.\u00a0 Ironically, the word \u201cFinisterre\u201d literally means, \u201cThe ends of the earth\u201d, and the people we met told us they were the \u201cforgotten people\u201d.\u00a0 They knew of many places that had the Word of God in their own language, but they had given up hope that it would ever come to them.\u00a0 What a joy and a privilege it was to tell them that \u201cNo, the God of the Universe has not forgotten you!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeremiah and April work with the Dinangat people of Papua New Guinea, discipling and translating God’s Word into their heart language with the goal of bringing up maturing believers who strive to apply God’s Word to their daily living and who have a heart to see Him known throughout and beyond their end of the world…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}