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What’s the backbone of a maturing church?
Marina and I want to thank you for your thoughts and prayers and notes over these past days. We’re still coming to terms with the death of our Loron friend, Hovare, but the Lord has been comforting our hearts and reminding us of the many ways that He had used Hovare as an encouragement and […]
Launch of New Literacy Course in Mozambique
Marina has just returned to Ivory Coast from Mozambique. She went there for a couple of weeks to help the missionaries working among the Yao people launch their new literacy course. From all accounts, it went very well. There is a lot of interest among the Yao in learning how to read and write their […]
God’s Patient Grace
Presenting the gospel in a clear and understandable way is only the beginning of the fulfillment of the Great Commission. The Lord Jesus, in Matthew 28, told His disciples to go, teach all nations, and baptize… ‘teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.’ In the book of Ephesians, Paul talks about […]
First Days in Ivory Coast
On 28 January 1986, just off the east coast of Florida, the space shuttle, Challenger, disintegrated seventy three seconds after take-off, resulting in the deaths of the seven crew-members. At that moment, we were on an Egypt Air Boeing 737 somewhere over the Mediterranean Sea on our way, for the first time, to Ivory Coast, […]
Loron Translation Project
The Loron believers in Ivory Coast are so eager to have the whole Bible translated into their own language that they have committed themselves to raising at least $1,000/£650 a year to help pay some of the wages of those whom God has raised up from among them to become involved in the translation project. […]
Wow, that was quick!
Coming to the end of another busy year! Thank you for praying for us as we travelled to various countries in Africa, North America and the UK, and as we continued to work with the Loron people in Ivory Coast. On the road in eastern Senegal The year started off with a short visit with […]
Faithfulness
Over the past few days I have been pondering the faithfulness of God. There are numerous passages in the Bible that specifically refer to God’s faithfulness. The best known verse is probably Lamentations 3.23 which includes the worshipful phrase: great is thy faithfulness. One of my favourite verses is Hebrews 10.23: Let us hold fast […]
Back in Northern Ireland
Greetings from Brook Lodge, Portadown! Marina and I returned to Northern Ireland from West Africa a couple a weeks ago. It’s great to be home! From February through to the end of July we had a very busy schedule of meetings, workshops, seminars and conferences in several countries in west and southeast Africa. We also […]
Stepping Back in Time
Thirty years ago this week, in a beautiful cove on the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, Marina and I completed four years of missionary training with New Tribes Mission. After attending NTM’s Bible school in England, the Missions Institute in western Pennsylvania, and then the Language and Linguistics Institute in Missouri, we finally embarked […]