Category: Ministry

Amy and I found ourselves in shock Monday night, trying to wrap our minds around everything that had just happened. Sitting on the couch beside us was my stolen laptop – along with all of the peripherals that had been taken with it. Although the computer had at one point been completely taken apart, the […]

It took me a minute to realize what had happened. I walked into my work space early Saturday morning, ready for a 12-hour workday that would wrap up my Cherokee linguistics write-up. After shutting the door behind me I carefully set my coffee cup on the table, then threw my jacket over the chair in […]

With nine weeks of Cherokee study complete, that means there is only one more to go! How has so much time flown by?

It’s only been five months since I (Jordan) analyzed my last linguistics problem… and while in some ways it seems like it’s been forever, for the most part everything is coming back quickly! The first of three write-up weeks is over, and 7.5-hour workdays in a quiet classroom have been very profitable. I estimate that […]

Let the last minute planning sessions commence! Have we recorded enough Cherokee stories to use in grammar analysis? How are we doing on double-checking all those nouns for written accuracy? Are we fairly confident we’ve collected enough material on what makes questions different from commands? And do any of us have the slightest clue what […]