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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 […]

We have spent some quality time over the past couple of months with the Loron believers in northern Ivory Coast. It has been very encouraging, although there have been some challenges along the way. • Translation Today we printed a working copy of the Gospel of Matthew in the Loron language. The three men on […]

Our internet connection is good at the minute here in the village – weekends are sometimes a little better – so I just want to give a brief update on how things are going for us in West Africa. I returned to Burkina Faso from Northern Ireland in early February and visited with our missionaries […]

Most of the Loron people of Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso still follow traditional African religious practices. However, in recent years, over 500 Loron men, women and children (from a total population of around 10,000), have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. There is a growing thirst among the Loron believers to have […]

WE’RE RUNNING A LITTLE BEHIND SCHEDULE, but it’s never too late for us to thank you for your prayers, encouragement and support during 2014. So many things happened during the year that it has been difficult keeping track of them all. Here are a few of the highlights… We started the year in Senegal and […]

Over the past few years Marina has taught quite a number of Loron teenagers and adults how to read and write in their own language. It’s a long, slow process, but progress has been encouraging and currently there are over thirty men, women and young people attending literacy classes in several different villages. Classes can […]

In early November the Loron Christians organised a baptism for another group of new believers, along with some older believers. Forty eight people altogether, from several different Loron churches, were baptised. I was invited to help, which was, indeed, a thrill. Here’s a short video (50secs) of a few of those who participated…