Down Under and Tugutil translation progress

March 14, 2017

Going Down Under! Despite living in the Asia-Pacific region for a couple of decades, Debbie and I had never made it to Australia. Well, in mid-January we finally had a good reason to make our first trip ‘down under,’ since the Translation Committee and other mission leaders and consultants were gathering there to discuss Bible […]

Believing lies

August 30, 2016

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. John 15:4 The Dinangat Church A few weeks ago we heard the sad news that several believers from the second Dinangat church in T. listened to […]

I See the Sea!

August 10, 2016

Do you remember the first time you saw the sea? We are here in town again and this time we have brought two of our Amdu friends with us. This is their first time seeing the sea! Our teammates, Bart and Emily Allen, and us are standing on the edge of a completely different ocean and […]

Printing Up a Storm!

July 28, 2016

We couldn’t resist sharing a few photos of our home office which has become a veritable print shop recently. Each stack of paper on our floor is one book of the Tugutil Bible, most of which are complete books. All of the Old Testament portions which NTM recommends to be translated for the chronological Bible […]

May 2016

June 6, 2016

Bob’s last trip, which he just returned from April 29th, took him to two countries and four language groups. During that trip a total of 3,378 verses of Scripture were checked and approved for printing in those four languages. The first leg of his trip was in a country he had never visited before, and […]

Organic Curriculum

April 21, 2016

or·gan·ic -adjective- “produced or involving production without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or other artificial agents….characterized by continuous or natural development.” How can this apply to Bible curriculum for a church? As church planting consultants, one of our jobs is to help church planting teams plan and organize a curriculum project that will result […]

Lots of Work Ahead

February 12, 2016

My work has begun in earnest for possibly the next 7 weeks as our two co-translators, Arcesio and Luis and Luis’s 7 year old daughter, Yenci, arrived this afternoon to do the revision of the last part of 1 Corinthians and the book of Hebrews. Would appreciate your prayers as this is an intense time. I […]