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WELL PROGRESS…FOR REAL!

January 29, 2011

We had another crew working on our well over the last two days. They were able to remove the bad blocks the previous crew had used and build up the walls of the well with better bricks. Now we have to wait for the agitation in the water to settle and we can reinstall the […]

CURRENT PRAYER REQUESTS – JANUARY 22 2011

January 22, 2011

Current Prayer Requests for January 22 2011 1. Pray that we will learn to find Him sufficient for everything we face each day. 2. Pray for the Elin and the kids as they homeschool each weekday. 3. Pray for Phil and his translation helpers to make good progress in translation. 4. Pray for the translation […]

SECOND LITERACY CLASS BEGINS

January 22, 2011

Our partners, Francois and Nadia Hattingh, have recently started the second literacy class in their village. They began this week with Nadia as the main teacher and 2 of the graduates from the first class as teachers-in-training. They have 8 students in the class. For many of the people in this class it is their […]

UNEXPTECTED OFFICE VISITOR

January 22, 2011

Yesterday’s translation session was briefly interrupted by an unexpected visitor. This snake decided to come and visit us in the translation office. His visit made the session fairly lively for a few minutes while we figured out how to discourage him. He met his demise and was promptly escorted out of the facility!

WELL STILL NOT FIXED

January 22, 2011

Two steps forward. Three steps back. Sometimes that is how it feels when dealing with our well. A crew finally showed up to work on the well after 2 months of waiting. They spent Thursday trying to fix it but ended up only making things worse. We hired the crew to build up the walls […]

MWINIKA PROVERB #5

January 22, 2011

“Weetta ohiya nnawu. Wahiya eyano enawutthara.” (If you walk, leave your feet. If you leave your mouth, it will follow you home.) When you go visiting, if you say anything to anyone, especially about your plans or about anything good that has happened to you, you can count on it being remembered. For instance, if […]

LESSON DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

January 16, 2011

Lesson Development. It’s huge! We had little idea of the magnitude of this task. I began by doing a very rough draft on several lessons. Since then our teammate Francois Hattingh has taken over the bulk of the lesson development. Both of us have found that it is a lot more involved than we had […]

SHEEP LEADING SHEEP

January 16, 2011

Our challenges are not isolated just to our ministry here in the village. The Lord uses our different roles and responsibilities to mold and shape us. Being involved on the leadership team for the field of South East Africa is one of those challenges. One of our mission leaders shared something in a conference a […]

TRANSLATION PROGRESS

January 15, 2011

We have recently completed work on the Old Testament portions needed for our initial teaching program. In all, there were about 1300+ verses translated from the Old Testament, including the complete book of Jonah. We are still working on these portions getting them ready to be checked by a translation consultant who is scheduled to […]

STORIES THAT FLOP

January 15, 2011

Ever tried to tell a story and had it flop? I am reminded of a time that I had a story flop. It was a year or two ago when I was in full time language study. I was translating one of Aesop’s fables into eMwinika as a language exercise. It went something like this: […]