Women With Focus On Things Above

May 16, 2016

I am still pretty excited about our most recent Ladies meeting. Let me tell you about it and may you be as encouraged by it as I am. Friday morning at 8 o’clock we ladies meet for some Bible study and prayer time. While the little kids are going to preschool next door and singing […]

In Big Need Of Rain!

October 18, 2015

“Though the LORD is on high, he looks upon the lowly,… Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life;… The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O LORD, endures for ever – do not abandon the works of your hands.” Psalm 138:6-9 God strengthened my heart this week […]

Lukas, a life lived for the Lord

September 15, 2015

When we taught the “Creation to Christ Story” the first time here in 2008, he was a teenager. He went to school, wasn’t married yet and had no idea what God was going to do through him and in him in the coming years. Today Lukas is one of our most faithful bible teachers, one […]

Jesus In The Center

August 18, 2015

The church service last Sunday morning was very encouraging. As a review we have been learning from the letter to the Ephesians for a few weeks now. The Dinangat Bible Teachers have been learning to write their own Bible lessons, and we are clearly seeing progress with that. Jaspa was preached this morning about Eph.5: […]

ITF2015 & back in the tribe

July 22, 2015

This summer has been a really good time for us as a family. The girls, Naomi and Rebekka joined us as we went down to M. town to be part of the Interface program. Interface is a summer Missions internship program for young adults who are interested in church planting overseas. 26 students (picture below) […]

Probably the hardest thing!

February 11, 2015

This was probably the hardest thing we have ever done in our lives as we separated from our two big girls, Naomi and Rebekka. As the day came closer we got more nervous about it and started to struggle a bit. And sure enough when we said our good-byes it was very, very hard. Not […]

Dinangat Mail, March 2013

March 17, 2013

“Yesterday I worried a lot about whether or not I will be able to think straight and talk right when I will meet again with Elli to check the Bible Translation. Then today I worried again, but then I thought that those worries probably make God sad. Hasn’t He helped me all those years and […]

Dinangat Mail, Feb.’13

February 6, 2013

“What do I do when my husband doesn’t help me with my housework or with the kids?“, or “What do I do when my wife does not respect me and doesn’t listen to me?” Questions like that were part of this last weekend’s marriage seminar here in Dinangat. We invited Suke and his family to […]

Dinangat Mail, Aug. 2012

August 15, 2012

In the beginning of this month a woman from our village, named Wiwigere, drowned. She was on her way to see her mom in the neighboring village. Between our village and that village is a big river. Wiwigere was alone and she must have fallen into the river and drowned. This river dragged her body […]

Dinangat Mail, July 2012

July 16, 2012

In the beginning of this month we had a very exciting event take place here in the Dinangat church. We were able to hand out all the Scriptures portions (which we have translated and consultant checked so far) in one bound book. It was such a joy to everyone and such an encouragement to us […]