Dear friends I am glad I can send a quick update on what’s going on in our bush village. Most of this comes from my co-worker and he gave me permission to share it with you all. This is an abbreviated format, so if any of the points should prick your interest for more information, then please feel free to […]
Hi Friends Hope you are all very well! As you know I regularly go to visit other villages , especially in light of our outreaches getting off the ground. To get to these villages is a real challenge as you know. During our 9 hour hike , we breathe sticky humid air and sweat without […]
Hi Friends Hope you are all doing great! I have been away from home for some days and have been very busy the last weeks with lesson writing and getting our worker up to speed on what is going on in the church. We are thankful for what the Lord is doing in our lives, […]
Dear friends – Here is an older news letter we send out a while back but I never published it on our blog. First- apologies for writing in English today. But I just can’t see myself writing twice…and you will see, even though I am surrounded by the “rooinekke” , my tenses and grammar […]
Bruce and Apite (ah-pee-tay) Bruce and his wife Apite have the cutest 4 little boys!! Before he was saved, Bruce was a real trouble-maker. Now he is a changed person—to say the least!!! He and Apite have a beautiful relationship and both of them are teaching their children God’s Word. It is so special to […]
Hi Friends Here is another prayer request for another of our Mengen families. Kamilus (caw-me-loose) and Sepin (say-pin) Kamilus and Sepin are a very special married couple, with 6 beautiful children. They became believers a couple of years ago and have had a radiant testimony ever since. Although they are a young, quiet couple, they […]
Hi Friends Thanks for standing in prayer with us for the Mengen believers. Things are going well in the church although there is always room for growth. Here is another family that you can pray for: Joe Waimo and Sande (Sunday) Joe Waimo and his wife Sunday have 3 children. Their oldest daughter and her […]
Sande has been Dave Wright’s translation helper for many years and has been a huge help in preparing Bible lessons. Sande is also a quiet guy and a deep thinker. His wife Tokare is very quiet and shy. Sande attended the Bible teaching quite faithfully, but Tokare only attended sporadically yet the Lord worked in […]
Hi Friends Please continue to pray with us for the Mengen church. Pray for Balsen and Cecilia Cecilia is a single mom with one little 2 kids. Both Balsen and Cecilia became a believers a while back and we have seen them bloom and grow ever since. Balsen and Cecilia got married recently and we […]
Hi Friends. Here is a few photos of our recent trip to an island where we are thinking of seeing a new work started. Here we are busy with our 6 hours cruise on the high seas. We just thought it would only be 4 hours but the weather was rougher than expected. Here is […]
Hi friends As some of you know we are busy prepparing for an outreach to a new area on the North Coast of our Island. After many hours of language study, lessen preperation and teaching as well as dicipelship and training we now have a nice team of guys that can go ahead and start […]
Hi Friends Thanks to all of you who pray with us and support us! May God richly bless you for your help. Here are some prayer requests for the next few weeks. – I’m going to put in extra time to prepare lessons for 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy during these next few weeks. – […]
Hi Friends Hope you are all doing great! In these days I started to share from 1 Corinthians and me and the teachers specifically discussed Paul’s words in 1 Cor. 1 which says: For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many […]
Hi Friends Recently I traveled back from our support center to our bush location. We usually take a 35 minute flight with the mission plane but lately NTM has not been able to help us with flights due to a shortage of both pilots and fuel. So I had to take the grueling hike back […]