{"id":2,"date":"2009-08-14T16:31:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ralf-schlegel\/about\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T00:00:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ralf-schlegel\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi, we are Ralf and Elli Schlegel with our 3 daughters Naomi, Rebekka and Mirjam.<\/p>\n

We work in Papua New Guinea among the tribe of the Dinangat people.<\/p>\n

2002 – Aug.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We came to PNG and lived in M. town learning the trade language Pidgin English<\/p>\n

2003 – Jan.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First visit to the Dinangat people<\/p>\n

2003 – Mar.\u00a0\u00a0 Started building our team houses in the tribe<\/p>\n

2003 – Aug.\u00a0\u00a0 Moved into the tribe together with our co-workers the Smiths and the Markleys<\/p>\n

2003 – Oct.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Started official language- and culture study of the Dinangat people<\/p>\n

2007 – Apr.\u00a0\u00a0 First literacy class, teaching them to read and write in the mother tongue<\/p>\n

2008 – Jan-May\u00a0\u00a0 Teaching for the first time chronologically from Creation to Christ<\/p>\n

2010 – Jan-May\u00a0\u00a0 Believers from the S. village go to teach chronologically from Creation to Christ for the first time in neighboring village T.<\/p>\n

2011 – 2012 Discipleship of the believers in S. and T. as we are teaching through the book of Ephesians and 1st Corinthian<\/p>\n

2013 – Mar-Aug\u00a0\u00a0 Bible teachers from S. and T. are teaching from Creation to Christ in the small neighboring village B.<\/p>\n

2016 – Appointing first 2 elders in S.<\/p>\n

2017 – All 3 missionary families moved out of the tribe to town. We continue to work on discipleship and Bible translation itinerantly as we’re also involved in different leadership roles within the mission organization<\/p>\n

2024 The 2 churches in S. and T. are teaching through the book of 2nd Corinthian<\/p>\n

2024 – 2025 Church in T. is teaching from Creation to Christ in the small neighboring village T.<\/p>\n

Today\u00a0\u00a0 We’re praying for open doors for God’s Word in the remaining Dinangat village. In the meantime we continue in discipleship of the believers, development of church leaders and translation of God’s Word into the Dinangat language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, we are Ralf and Elli Schlegel with our 3 daughters Naomi, Rebekka and Mirjam. Our passion is to give people of every tribe, kindred, tongue and nation the opportunity to know Jesus, be discipled and become a functioning member of the body of Christ.<\/p>\n

Therefore we count it a huge privilege to be a part of the tribal church planting team in the Dinangat tribe in Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ralf-schlegel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ralf-schlegel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ralf-schlegel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ralf-schlegel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ralf-schlegel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ralf-schlegel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ralf-schlegel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}