Wow, that was quick!

December 5, 2015

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

August 19, 2015

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

August 15, 2015

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

June 1, 2015

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 […]

Out of the blue

May 11, 2015

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 […]

Outreach to another Loron Village

March 21, 2015

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 […]

New Bible Translation and Literacy Project

February 2, 2015

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 […]

The old and the new

January 11, 2015

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 […]

7/7 Literacy

December 14, 2014

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 […]

Loron Baptism, 2014

December 12, 2014

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…