Tag: Ethnos360

I spend a lot of time at my desk drafting and re-drafting translation as passages work their way through the translation process, so sometimes it is hard to think of something new to put in our weekly update. Not this week. John Silver is new. He arrived two days ago and lives a few houses […]

It’s been a rainy week. A couple of typhoons passed by, but thankfully they didn’t pass directly over us. We made substantial progress on translation last week. Heidi finished up a comprehension check on the book of Acts and I finished the first draft for the book of Romans. There is still a lot of […]

It is really difficult to be here! There are just too many distractions. For example, I’m trying to get translation done and these huge colorful butterflies keep landing on the flowers outside my window. It’s horrible. We have a lot to be thankful for. God has answered our prayers for baby Owen. He has fully […]

Believe it or not, but this might actually be a microscopic picture taken of my brain cells this past week. They were busy thinking about the things that were going on: the water pipe to the village broke, a pipe in my office started leaking. I suspect that the leak had something to do with […]

They say that you don’t really appreciate something until you lose it. I suppose there is some truth in that, but for missionaries, the saying runs a bit differently. For missionaries, it goes like this: You don’t really write about something until you lose it. That is why when you read missionary blogs you will […]

This picture is a little under exposed, so you probably can’t tell we are smiling, but we are. Heidi and I enjoyed our two nights at the beach. It was a beautiful place to have a vacation. After returning to town, we visited our Isnag friends who were in the hospital and are happy to […]

Manila has some things we don’t have up north: taxis, cement sidewalks, and malls, but this week we are happily trading those things for grass, trees, and fresh air. Our time in the big city did serve its purpose. Vicky and the team worked very hard and produced a complete set of primers and readers […]

Our team is making great progress on the four primers and four readers which will form the foundation for our literacy program. Once we are done we will be able to prepare the supporting materials such as flash cards and instruction manuals for the teachers. Thanks for praying for us. We have one week to […]

If you were to talk to us on the phone right now you might ask, “What’s that noise in the background?  Are there 100 emergency vehicles going by with their sirens going?”  You might say, “Can you turn it off, I can’t hear you?”   That noise is cicadas; thousands of cicadas.  And no, you […]

We had a couple of visitors last week, so let me introduce them. This is Nikko, a very skilled videographer. Our partners, David and Vanessa, will be going on home assignment soon and Nikko very kindly volunteered to come in and make a video for them to use. He is also sharing his work with […]