{"id":115,"date":"2011-08-08T14:44:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-lawrence\/?p=115"},"modified":"2011-09-07T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T17:48:23","slug":"what-does-it-take-to-reach-tribal-people-update-on-the-siar-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-lawrence\/2011\/08\/08\/what-does-it-take-to-reach-tribal-people-update-on-the-siar-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it take to reach tribal people? Update on the Siar tribe."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Chris<\/a>
Chris and Erin Lujan; Lane and Karrie Sanford; Jon and Melissa Jackson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What does it take to reach tribal people with the gospel?\u00a0 On July 5, the missionaries in the Siar tribe began teaching the Creation to Christ lessons to the Siar people. What are some of the things that they have done do arrive at this place?\u00a0 It was over 10 years ago that the missionaries started their missionary training. After 4 years of training, they spent 1 year raising financial and prayer support.<\/p>\n

After they arrived in Papua New Guinea, they spent about 8 months learning the national language of Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 After that they spent 4 years of living with the Siar people, learning their language and culture.\u00a0 Next they figured out what alphabet would be needed for the Siar language, they designed and produced a literacy course so that they could teach the Siar people how to read and write their own language, training some of them to teach and carrying on the literacy program. At the same time they were translating portions of the Old Testament and then moving into the New Testament, and writing Bible lessons in the Siar language.\u00a0 Through all of their activities in the tribe they have worked hard at showing God’s love to the Siar people, building relationships and becoming friends with them, so that they would want to hear the message that the missionaries have brought.\u00a0 On the 5th of July, (PNG time) they started the 70 Chronological Bible Lessons going from Creation to Christ.\u00a0 They have been meeting twice a day, four days a week, and God\u2019s Word is having an impact on the Siar people.<\/p>\n

One of the Siar people described the last 5 days of teaching as the pounding waves of God\u2019s truth being unleashed in their lives but the calm must be coming.\u00a0 Another person, Yolita said, \u201cthe teaching was so heavy that after the teaching I felt like I had worked all day in the garden, I just went down to the river to wash up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Missionaries<\/a>
Missionaries teaching and interacting with the Siar people<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You may wonder, \u201cWhy are you telling us this?\u00a0 We don\u2019t know these people.\u201d That\u2019s true; you may not know them, but your prayers and gifts to the Lord are having an impact on the Siar indirectly.\u00a0 Gay and I are returning to ministries in the accounts office and in the school for missionaries\u2019 children.\u00a0 If these ministries were not functioning \u2013 then the missionaries out in the tribe could not be doing what they are doing there, or they would be greatly slowed down.\u00a0 We are sharing their story so that you can be praying for the Siar people, and the missionary team there \u2013 and be more directly involved with these people whom you are already impacting.\u00a0 I also want you to be able to share in the joy we will experience when they come to know the Lord.\u00a0 Thank-you for praying for us, for the Siar people, and for the missionaries who are sharing God’s message with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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