Author: Jerry and Joyce McDaniels

God still makes a way!

God still makes a way!

Life and ministry often present obstacles so immense that only God can carve a path through them. Moses surely felt this weight as he led the Israelites to the edge of the Red Sea, their enemies closing in behind them. And a missionary team working with an unreached people group encountered a similar challenge. They […]
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Training literacy workers

Training literacy workers

We recently returned from England and the missionary training center where we had the privilege of helping with the literacy course. It always encourages our hearts to be with young people who are preparing to serve the Lord in cross-cultural locations all around the world! During the literacy course, we looked together at the many […]
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Nine languages

Nine languages

We are excited to be working with nine languages and getting ready for literacy trips in the future. Our next trip will be to Colombia. We will start training a literacy consultant and write literacy curriculum in the one of the languages. The missionary team has chosen four local men to travel out with them and […]
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What is post-literacy?

What is post-literacy?

After learning to read in literacy classes, people need lots of books to practice and improve their reading speed, accuracy, comprehension, and writing skills. We call this post-literacy reading practice. The post-literacy materials are organized from simpler reading to more difficult. They begin with interesting stories about local topics. They progress to educational literature such […]
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Time for celebration!

Time for celebration!

The translation of the Literacy Manual has been completed in Portuguese and French. It is ready for teams to use in their literacy works. We are so thankful for the translators who have assisted on these huge projects. It takes a team, and we are so much stronger working together for our Lord!
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One language at a time

One language at a time

What a blessed time to serve our Lord! Last month found us working here in our offices at home on projects all around the world. In West Africa, a consultant did her first solo literacy curriculum writing project in a remote area. Through the internet, we were able to accompany the team through the three […]
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halfway there

halfway there

Today Jerry is at the halfway point of the radiation treatments for cancer. That means four more weeks ahead of us. To be honest, it’s not been the easiest month as we deal with the effects of the radiation and cancer medicine. But our hope remains strong in the Lord, and we marvel at His […]
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Videos done, Panama here we come!

Videos done, Panama here we come!

At the end of last month, we finished the filming of the 7 weeks of literacy training videos. Thanks so much for praying for this huge project! Now, it is in the hands of the editing team. We are so thankful for the resource these videos will be for missionary training and the consultants to […]
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Seeing the fruit

Seeing the fruit

We are beginning to see the fruit of some huge projects into which we have poured time. When we could not travel because of Covid we were able to write the 251-page Literacy Manual. Teams are translating it into Spanish, Portuguese, French, etc. Recently, a team in Bolivia who is teaching the literacy course had […]
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literacy training videos

literacy training videos

We are down to the finish line on the preparations for the literacy training videos! This is our last week to work on the presentations and practice them. This first phase of the videoing begins next Monday, June 13th till July 1st. In August we will video the second part of the course. Anytime you […]
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