March News!

March 29, 2018

We hosted a teachers’ workshop this month here in our newly rebuilt church house. 34 participated, 6 tribal locations, plus 4 local pastors from other denominations. There were three teachers including Gena, two of which were from another province and four cooks from here. We use a system called Chronological Teaching to present the Gospel […]

Teacher’s Training Workshop in Dom

March 9, 2018

Our little church community hosted a Bible teacher’s workshop this past week. Those in attendance (about 30 as students, 3 as teachers and 4 cooks) came from 6 different language groups so Tok Pisin, the common language, was the medium of communication. The Chronological Teaching Method was the topic and the goal was to learn […]

Martin’s Cancer Progress

February 26, 2018

For all you who remember Martin and his on going battle with mouth cancer here he is still going strong and serving the Lord both in Bible teaching and practically working together with the brethren to rebuild our church house. Praise God for this brother in Christ. Martin continues to share what God has been […]

Update on Martin’s Post surgery

October 24, 2017

Jim went into town, to the hospital and visited with Martin. Martin is recovering from oral surgery to remove the cancer on his tongue and walls of his mouth. While there Jim talked with the surgeon who said that the cancer was at stage 3 (stage 4 being the worse). The surgeon is fairly confident […]

One of our Bible Teacher’s has mouth cancer

October 9, 2017

Maria, Wero, Boni, Martin We have some sad news to share from here in the Dom. One of our dear friends, Christian brother and Bible teacher, Martin has been diagnosed with mouth cancer. It is somewhere between stage 2 and 3. He came to us some weeks ago about sores on his tongue that would […]

Easter

April 16, 2017

April 2017, #94 Greetings in the name of our resurrected Lord. “April showers bring May flowers”. We’ve had lots of rain showers here for many months. According to our records we are having far more rain than usual for this time of the year. It has been raining so much that the National Highway and […]

Our continued Hot water woes and Jim’s health

January 29, 2017

Our Hot water system was still not working. Our Tech guy, Josh Simmons, made two trips up to work on our plumbing situation. Thankfully, he was able to replace old plumbing and improve the whole system and put in an expansion tank which made the hot water flow but caused numerous leaks in our old […]

Dile, our cancer patient

November 8, 2016

Please continue to pray for Dile. He is still able to drink very thin soup so we are making him drinks of sweet potatoes, beans, pumpkin and chicken. Helps his stomach to feel fuller and is more pleasant than just broth. Jim and Gerolf continue to go over every day, taking turns, to read scripture […]

Continued Outreach to the Neighboring Tribe and Language Group

October 12, 2016

Today Gena, Bapka, Martin, and Kapia Joseph returned to the Bari Language group to review and to ask questions to find out if they have understood their need for salvation. Please pray for them for clarity and for good responses. There have already been a lot of hindrances to them going. We are so thankful […]

New Outreach

May 10, 2016

Yesterday Jim drove our four Dom teachers to a new outreach village many miles away. This village is actually another language group whose mother tongue is close enough to Dom for everyone to communicate (compare Spanish and Portuguese). A first for our Dom believers to go outside their tribal borders and take the Gospel to […]