Mengens start to hunger for truth

March 20, 2012

A trip to determine where Mengen believers should reach out uncovered many potentially open doors. Lourens Laureti journeyed recently to distant area of their island to visit other Mengen communities that might welcome Mengen believers presenting God’s Word through Firm Foundations Bible lessons. The furthest village was four days away. Along the way, there were […]

Prayer needed for the Mengen church

March 7, 2012

Hi Friends All is fine here and we are experiencing some good weather for a change. Today I taught on the last verses in Romans 8, which show us that God loves us and that nothing can separate us from God’s love. This passage shows that all that comes across our path is good and […]

Pray for the Lauretis

February 11, 2012

Hi Friends Hope you are all doing very well. Just a quick update and some prayer points. Things are going well in our village, although I have been very sick this last week or two and just seem not to be able to get over it. We have had a lot of rain these last […]

The Importance of culture Studies

February 7, 2012

Hi friends Thanks so much for standing with us in reaching the unreached amongst the Mengen people! Life in the jungle goes on as ussual. My co worker is doing some culture studies as he is preparing for his final language check and this gives me an opportunity to just again think over some cultural […]

Perspective on jungle life

February 5, 2012

Hi friends After many years in the jungle it seems that we have grown accustomed to the jungle and that which lives there. Yet I am still dumbfounded by what we see every now and then. The question would be what do cockroaches eat? The answer would be anything in cardboard boxes. We recently went […]

A New Song in the Jungle

January 25, 2012

Hi friends In the first months living in the jungle, we grew to love the sound of chirping insects and frogs as we drift off to sleep. But now they were drowned out by hours of singing praises to God. If you go around and visit at night you will find dim lighting illuminated the open-sided houses packed with Mengens, […]

Out of a Cucumber?

January 22, 2012

Hi Check out this link for an audio story on what the Mengens would think about the creation of man. Out of a Cucumber Cheers Lourens

The lauretis are going back bush

January 22, 2012

Hope you guys are all doing great today! We are on our way back to the bush after an interesting end very beneficial translation workshop. At this moment we are also having consultants checking the books of Jonah and Acts. And we are thus thankful that soon these books will be in the hands of […]

Translating Gods Word

January 19, 2012

In these days we have been busy with a translation workshop during which we had the opportunity to sharpen our skills in discourse analysis and applying this as we translate Gods Word. We are so thankful that you are making it possible for us to translate Gods Word in the Mengen language. You are […]

An inspiration

January 8, 2012

Dear Friends Amazing- on this photos are Mina and Seong Mun- they are from Korea and working with New Tribes Mission in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. We met them here on our support center while attending our Translation workshop… Hear this: -They were 45 when God called them to be missionaries -At […]

Greetings from the Lauretis

December 28, 2011

Just imagine the silent night that Christ was born and then think of the totall opposite. That is what it is in a Mengen village, where many exited new believers are staying ready to celebrate the birth of the Redeemer. It was as usual very interesting to be amongst the Mengen people but also to […]

Please pray for Alex and Monde

December 28, 2011

Alex en Mandes story: Alex is one of our believers who have been showing a lots of potential as a literacy teacher but also to develop into a Bible teachers. He has been proving himself and we are slowly but surely training him to assist us in our task of reaching the Mengen people. Unfortunately […]

10 steps to getting Gods Word in people’s hands

September 16, 2011

Hello Friends, I am out of the jungle and using the opportunity to send some pictures and news. We recently printed some more of our Bible books and we also had some people making donations towards getting it printed and into people’s hands. As you know we have many Old Testament portions translated and also […]

wayward children…

February 19, 2011

An update from my co worker in the bush. Please keep on prying with us for our friends there in the Mengen people group! Dear praying friends, God is still in the business of answering prayer -too often forgotten by our lack of faith. Judy and I have been reminded that we are in a […]

Welcome at the Laureti’s site!

December 11, 2009

Hi Friends Thanks for visiting our site. We have not had the oppertunity to switch from our blog to the NTM blog site so please visit our official site at www.lourenslaureti.blogspot.com. The purpose of our site is to expose the Mengen Church to fellow believers who can support us and them in their prayers! On […]