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Dinangat Mail, Nov. 2011

November 17, 2011

Below is what our coworker Gary wrote about a very exciting miracle of God that we got to witness yesterday. God seems to be opening the door for us to go to our neighboring village M. to teach them God’s Word after all 🙂 !!! Thanks for praying with us, Ralf for us Schlegels […]

Dinangat Mail, Sept. 2011

September 16, 2011

This month of September looks a lot different for us this year. Ralf and us girls are separated for over two weeks because he went to the NTM center for the Sepik region for a translation check there. Maybe you think that this is not a long time, but for us this is pretty big […]

Dinangat Mail, July 2011

July 16, 2011

“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Romans 12:12 “Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” James 1:4 Please pray for our Bible teachers Basa, Felix, Lukas, Jaspa and Ronny. For right now they are going through a difficult time. It all started […]

Dinangat Mail, June 2011

June 15, 2011

“Nothing moves the heart of God more than prayer.” Beth Moore Dear Praying friends, we need your prayers! We have always known that we are not alone as we are working amongst the people of Dinangat, but that we are working in a big team together with all of you. We have seen so many […]

Dinangat Mail, May 2011

May 13, 2011

I think there is almost nothing more beautiful than getting to watch people believing in God’s Word and then even proclaiming it publicly with much conviction and joy. What a joy it was for us to get to be a part of it over the Easter holidays! First here in the village, and then also […]

Dinangat Mail, April 2011

April 15, 2011

What God says about marriage has been the topic in Dinangat for the last two weeks as we were teaching through Ephesians 5. And we can only say: God’s idea of marriage is a very new one for the Dinangat people! “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up […]

Dinangat Mail, Feb. 2011

February 14, 2011

“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Eph.2:10 For the last few weeks we have been studying the book of Ephesians together with the Dinangat church here in the village and every Sunday we marvel again about God’s Word to […]

Dinangat Mail, Dec. 2010

December 10, 2010

Below is an update that our co-workers the Smiths sent out yesterday relating to the sudden and unexpected death of one of Ralf’s translation helpers Bunex’s wife. Thank you for your prayers. The Schlegels “Now I’m getting rid of my old clothes and the new clothes He gave me I am putting on” These were […]

Dinangat Mail, Nov. 2010

November 24, 2010

While you are heating your houses at home, we have to consciously remind ourselves that the winter season is coming closer. But in our hearts we know that the birthday of our Lord is coming near and that we get to celebrate it again this year with the Dinangat believers. Even though we miss home, […]

Dinangat Mail, Sept. 2010

September 19, 2010

How the believers of our neighboring village learn more about the greatness of God was expressed by one of the ladies which I met yesterday when she said, “The Bible teachers that come to us every weekend to teach us have now started to teach the book of Acts and I’m just loving it. I […]