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Trusting God with The “Impossible” As we begin our year of support raising, we are reminded of God’s faithfulness.  We started out on this journey with a beautiful house in a quiet and scenic location, ministries we enjoyed in our church and a great job that Paul loved.  Now, in a year we plan to fly to Papua […]

What does it mean to truly be a servant?  What does it take for me to effectively serve others?  Those are questions that Ellen and I have been challenged with as we have been going through our Culture and Language Acquisition Practicum and particularly while reading Duane Elmer’s Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility.  This […]

The Importance of Literacy… Imagine your life for one day without the ability to read.  More importantly… where would your relationship with the Lord be if you could not read your Bible and no one around you could either?  As our final semester of training begins, we are looking into the importance of literacy to young tribal churches.  […]

Our vision for the future… An obvious question that we are asked a lot is “where do you plan to serve?”  Naturally if we are planning to do the work of tribal church planting, Bible translating, etc. we need to decide on a country to work in… with languages that do not have a Bible yet. Actually we cannot […]

It Takes a “Village” (not just a missionary) A theme that has woven its way through our last month or so has been teamwork.  We studied in Acts how the church prayed and sent out Paul and Barnabas from Antioch (Acts 13:1-3).  They didn’t go alone, the church was behind them.  We’ve also had the privilege to learn and pray […]

Goodbye 2014. Hello 2015! Thank you so much for your prayers and support for us throughout this past year. As I reflect back on all that happened during 2014 I’m so thankful for how God has been at work in our family. 2014 was filled with times of transition for our family, but all the […]

Merry Christmas! Instead of a letter, you get to see the Swenson Tribe Christmas Video! Click here to view our “Totally Awesome and Very Professional Christmas Video”! (Okay, maybe just “Christmas Video”)… Feel free to use it in your churches as an update. Love Paul, Ellen and The Tribe. http://youtu.be/MPJ48lorIMU