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Recently, my Turu friend and I translated several Bible verses together. As we worked, we came to these verses. Romans 10:3 For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. 4For Christ has […]

Living and serveing in the jungle takes its toll—not just on us, but on our home as well. Over the past year, we’ve been planning, purchasing supplies, flying them in, and gathering friends to come help transform our worn-down home into a more sustainable place to live and serve. We thought you might enjoy seeing […]

Watch the Turu are learning to read and write their own language We are grateful to get to be a part of helping to bring the Bible to life in the Turu language! Not only are we translating the Word of God into the Turu langauge, but we’re also empowering the Turu people to read, […]

The beauty of a transformed life We have raised our kids overseas with us as we have lived & served among a least reached people group. We are motivated to do this because of the the Good News’ capacity to change lives. Yet in so doing, we try to always remember that our kids are […]

What makes a tonal language so challenging? The Turu people we live and serve among, speak a language that is tonal. In English, intonation may be added to affect meaning. Consider the following two sentences: “Are we leaving now?” ending in a rising tone, would mark a question. But the sentence, “Are we leaving now?” […]

We live with the Turu people, translating and teaching the word of God. We are able to do this due to the faithfulness of our ministry partners. These partners are those of you who regularly pray for, give financially, and encourage us as we serve. A friend of ours asked if he could send a […]

We can’t afford to lose sight of what is important. There are so many things in world that can distract us from staying on mission. None of us can afford to loose sight of what God is doing and how he wants to use us. For our Turu friends, they don’t have God’s Word in […]

Jungle living is not for the faint of heart. Sometimes the most profound thing we accomplish in a day is washing the dishes. However, our jungle house truly has become our home. We plan to start posting pics of our home here to give you a glimpse of what it takes to do more than […]

Over the course of the next few months we will be traveling around the Northwest to visit with friends, supporters, churches, & family. We are blessed to be able to be ministry partners with some pretty incredible people. We are always encouraged by opportunities like this to reconnect with so many. There are some exciting […]

We are currently back in Washington State for our regular home assignment. During this time home we are continuing to work on ministry but also further our training, reconnect with family & friends, as well as take care of medical needs.  Some highlights so far: 1-Ryan successfully underwent ACL surgery 2-Am taking a Greek Grammar […]