St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

February 16, 2017

Our teammates started teaching the first-ever Bible lessons in the Iski language last week! Being as we are still in the “language-learning” phase of our ministry, however, we are not really able to directly contribute to their teaching efforts a whole lot. What we lack in useful ability though, we try to make up for […]

History in the Making

January 27, 2017

As many of you know, our village was constructed a few years ago for the sole purpose of hearing God’s Talk. Every man, woman, and child here has moved a day’s journey into the jungle, leaving behind their access to government schooling, a medical clinic, and easier access to trade goods. They have worked hard […]

Pestilence and Pottery (and a bug)

January 19, 2017

I’ll be honest, I’m a little tubel* concerning what I should be writing about right now. You see, this last weekend I was sick, which always spurs my creative muse into action.** I also created my very first piece of pottery, which (though it is small, irregularly shaped, and ugly in color) I feel demands […]

Pros and Cons

January 6, 2017

There are a few pros and cons to living in a remote jungle village. Yes, I know there are pros and cons in any given circumstance in life, and usually it’s more an issue of our perspective of a situation that determines its “pro” or “con” status more than the actual thing itself. Since our […]

A Night at the Movies

December 16, 2016

As our teaching time draws nearer,* we have been looking for ways to help our Iski friends and neighbors engage with, and process, new information. If this seems like an inconsequential thing to you, that’s because we often take for granted the EXORBITANT amount of information we have at our fingertips at any given moment. […]

Hoes, Toes, and Garden Woes

November 24, 2016

As some of you may already know, I was bitten by the gardening bug last spring.* I’ve never really done any gardening before, so this was a bit of a leap for me, but it was bound to happen eventually. Between hardly ever having fresh produce in the house, being immersed daily in a remote, […]

Momma Mia!

October 26, 2016

I think I mentioned a while back in a newsletter that we had a few big events coming up, and that we were jittery with anticipation as those momentous days approached. Well, those days have come and gone, and all those things happened. (YAY!) As is often the case though, in the midst of all […]

Pomp and Ceremony

September 2, 2016

You may not have read about it in the paper, or heard about it on the evening news, but history was made recently. The first-ever Iski literacy class just graduated its first students! That’s right, for the first time in HUMAN HISTORY, a mixed group of Iski men, women, and children were able to stand […]

Party Poopers

September 2, 2016

The other day, we had a bit of a shindig in our village, celebrating the graduation of our first Iski literacy class. It was a fun time. The people did mini-dramas depicting different Iski historical moments, they had singing groups perform songs they had written especially for the occasion, there were speeches, there was food, […]

A Satellite Location

August 19, 2016

What DID NOT lead us to choose this location is its available cell phone signal (or, lack thereof). I know that a poor ...