Marriage and Family

August 23, 2015

Thank you for your faithful prayers. We know we are being prayed for as the Lord continues to give us the strength to continue on. Pray for the Tigak church as we are studying the book of Ephesians together. We are seeing encouraging signs of growth as the believing husbands and wives are learning to […]

Team Translation Workshop

January 21, 2012

Whew!!! It has been a busy two weeks. We just completed the Team Translation Workshop (TTW 2012). The TTW is for the missionaries who have recently completed learning a tribal language and are ready to begin translating the Bible into their tribal language. It is required for the whole missionary team to attend the workshop […]

Kara Linn’s Graduation

December 25, 2011

We wanted to let y’all know that our oldest daughter, Kara Linn, graduated (summa cum laude) from college! She has been attending East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, Texas. Her degree is a B.S. in Chemistry and a minor in math along with a teacher’s certificate for Physical Science and Math. She has really been […]

Full Team again…

October 31, 2011

We are thankful to have Tom and Beth Carlton back in the tribe. We were able to meet their beautiful new daughter, Iris! As you can imagine the Tigak ladies are in love with her and can’t wait for their turn to hold her. Iris is 3 ½ months old. The Carlton’s firstborn, Jude, is […]

Translation Workshop

February 11, 2010

We are currently babysitting the guesthouse in town for the last time. We have new managers coming on March 4th which is very exciting! On Feb. 25th we will be flying to our Island’s region supply center to help with a translation workshop. The workshop will be from March 2 to 13 so we would […]

Gaining a vision for a New Testament Church

August 4, 2009

Pray for Paska and Robin to find ways to use what they learned on their recent visit to the Maleu church. We would like to see them share the vision of what a New Testament church should look like with the other Tigak believers. Pray that the community would be excited and supportive of a […]

Pray for the Tigak Believers

June 5, 2009

Please be praying for Paska, the main Tigak Bible teacher, as he teaches the believers through the book of I Corinthians. This is his first time to teach a book of the Bible completely on his own. We want to see the believers growing and being burdened to reach out to the many Tigak who […]

Progress on translation

June 5, 2009

Please be praying for Ned as he continues to translate God’s Word into the Tigak language. He will be having a translation check in September and wants to have as much ready as possible to be checked. This may be his last chance to have a translation check for the next year. Pray that Ned […]

Kara Linn and Josiah Beall settling into school

August 15, 2008

Please be praying for Josiah and Kara Linn as they are beginning a new phase of their lives. Josiah is attending our mission boarding school in PNG for the first time for 11th grade. He is very excited and loving all the activities and friends he has there. Kara Linn will be remaining behind in […]

Meetings

July 31, 2008

Please pray for Ned and the Shivelys as they have meetings and make decisions regarding the work among the Tigak people.