August Praise and Prayer!

August 12, 2013

Praise: 1. for a completely translated Dom New Testament and a very encouraging final consultant check. (Still need to do checking of Revelation and Philemon) 2. For the faithful who continue to attend Bible teaching. 3. For a great start in language and culture study for Gerolf and Mailis. 4. For continued local tensions. 5. […]

TRANSLATION PROGRESS

April 17, 2013

Jim is working day and night to get Hebrews, Luke and John ready for the final consultant check. It would take far too long to explain what that is about and if you are curious just ask and we will write to you personally and explain. Needless to say that it is a necessary and […]

Back to Normal in the Dom

July 31, 2012

August 2012, #81 Dear Friends and Family, We shared in previous letters that some aspects of our ministry were on hold due to this time of campaigning and elections here in PNG. Our Dom believers, some of whom have been a bit distracted by it all, felt that we should wait on starting literacy, Gospel […]

Breaking Through the Darkness

November 15, 2011

One recent Sunday morning here at our little village church we had the pleasure of hearing Yal Ki share his testimony. He is not a man of many words. He is quiet and a bit serious on the surface. So it was a courageous thing for him to get up in front of everyone and […]

Progress in Translation and Literacy

November 14, 2011

[singlepic id=92 w=320 h=240 float=]In May Jim had a translation check of: 2 Corinthians, 2 Timothy, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2, 3 John and Jude. He has finished doing the comprehension checking of James, Matthew, & Hebrews. James & Philemon is ready to have the final check by a translation consultant. He is almost […]

November Prayer & Praise

November 4, 2009

Praise: 1. Jim and Gena have finished the first draft of the Dom NT. There is much yet to do so not finished, but this is a major milestone in finishing the whole project. 2. Progress in comprehensive checking. 3. God’s grace during this separation with Jim in PNG. 4. Brian’s six weeks of work […]

The First Draft of the Dom New Testament is now Finished!

November 4, 2009

Jim has now been gone for seven weeks with four to go. But a major praise is that he has finished the first draft of the Dom New Testament. We must admit that there were times over the years that we wondered if we would ever get to this point. This separation has been worth […]

Translation Update

October 12, 2009

Jim is in the Dom until the end of November returning home on December 3. He and Gena have made good progress. They have finished the first draft of Jude, Philemon, II Corinthians, I & II Peter, I, II, & III John. This week they are starting on Matthew, leaving Revelation after that. He has […]

October Praise & Prayer

October 12, 2009

Praise: 1. Jim got to PNG and the Dom safely and our house and all has been well taken care of by our guys. He was able to find everything he needed to set up. 2. Jim and Gena were able to start right away – finishing the first draft of Jude, Philemon, 2 Corinthians […]

Burdett Bulletin August …

August 1, 2009

For those who do not get our monthly updates, we are now in California as of June 10th. We left Ilai and his daughter, Kelli, in New York, always hard and went onto Waukesha, WI for Heather’s Bible School graduation and then to Idaho to spend three weeks with Brian and his little family. We so enjoyed holding our new baby grandson, Andrew, baby sitting and playing with him.