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 […]

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 […]

Dinangat Mail, June 2012

June 14, 2012

“And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses, entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.” 2.Tim.2:2 It has always been one of our goals as we work amongst the Dinangat to teach and disciple the believers, so that they would someday be able to […]

Dinangat Mail, April 2012

April 18, 2012

We hope you all had a wonderful time over Easter! We had a great time as we were able to celebrate the Easter days with our church here in Dinangat. We had a powerful service on Friday with communion and some singing and praising around the fire on Friday night. Easter morning was the climax […]

Dinangat Mail, Feb. 2012

February 13, 2012

It has been a long while since we last wrote, so sorry! Our life in Dinangat keeps us busy and we tend to forget to share about how we are seeing God at work here in the Dinangat church. We are so grateful to God for all that we get to see and do here. […]

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 […]