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We’re back in Missouri! We finished up our seven weeks in Oklahoma on Friday, then drove up five hours to the Training Center where we lived last semester. We’ve got three more weeks here to wrap up my write-up on Cherokee, then we’ll make our way home to Washington, with a stop in Texas to […]

Well, today is our last Saturday in Oklahoma. Our last language session will be on Friday; then we’ll clean up at the camp we’re staying at and drive to Missouri Friday night or Saturday morning. We look forward to being in Missouri for a few weeks before making our way back home to Washington. But […]

Well, we’re almost done with the Oklahoma part of the course here. 5 out of 7 weeks are done. I still have a lot of work that I need to get done in the last two weeks. After that, we’ll be in Missouri for three weeks to finish our Cherokee write-up; but in order to […]

Times change, people change, and the way people talk changes too. One of the struggles missionaries face as they learn and analyze a language is understanding the difference between they way people normally talk and the more proper, correct way to say things. If you think about the English language, there is a huge difference […]

I think the enormity of the linguistic side of planting a tribal church has begun to sink in more this week for me. By linguistic side, I mean the whole task of writing down a language, giving it an alphabet and teaching the people to read it… it’s a big job. Lately, things have begun […]

It’s been a pretty busy weekend. I completely forgot about writing an update on Saturday. Not only is it Labor Day Weekend, but here in Northeast Oklahoma, it’s the Cherokee Heritage Festival. So Saturday, we took the kids to a parade in Tahlequah. As I understand it, there is no reservation here, but Tahlequah is […]

Two scorpions in our rooms, one Oklahoma Brown Tarantula on our porch and five sessions trying to get my ears used to the sounds of the Cherokee language- these were the main events this past week. I found one scorpion by our suitcase (there’s not a whole lot of furniture in our rooms, so our […]

Hello friends and family! We have successfully arrived in Oklahoma. Our trip was mostly uneventful; no breakdowns, anyways. We left Wednesday morning at 6:00, stopped in Sheridan, Wyoming the first night, then stayed with family in western Kansas before arriving here in Cookson, Oklahoma Friday evening. The weather was actually very nice- low 70’s for […]

Well, our time here is up. We came here to get some linguistic training that will help us and others to better understand and communicate in a tribal language. That has been mostly accomplished, apart from the ten weeks we will work with the Cherokee language this fall. It’s a good feeling to have done […]

This week has been full of excitement, relief and moderate temperatures. We taught on Jesus death, burial and resurrection at the Lighthouse on Thursday and I finished my 2 week + language problem. We’ve been teaching chronologically through the Bible at the Lighthouse (halfway house for drug addicts) for the last 10 weeks and this […]