God is Good!

May 5, 2016

Greetings, We hope you are all doing well! We are excited to share what God has been doing in our lives recently. Lately, we’ve had many appointments and it has been going very well. It has been extremely humbling to see how different Gods plans have been from our own, but we are so glad! We’ve […]

Contentment

May 5, 2016

It’s been an emotional couple of weeks in our household. If you’ve followed our newsletters, you’ll remember hearing of how the Lord worked to sell our house in only 3 days on the market. The next month was a whirlwind! So many things that need to be orchestrated, completed, moved, and finished. The flood of […]

Literacy comes to an end, NT Dedication, New Outreach

May 2, 2016

Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are already at the end of April of what was once the New Year. So much to share with you starting with the wonderful news that our coworkers, Gerolf and Mailis Wuest are back from their Home Assignment together with their two boys, Richard (3) […]

May Praise and Prayer

May 2, 2016

Praise: Continued outreaches Literacy class over – more people able to read Dom Solar System installation finished Arrival of our partners Pray For: Two New Outreaches Students for new Literacy Class to start in June Jim, Gena and Kapia as they work at going through the New Testament corrections Gerolf in Culture and Language […]

Plans

May 2, 2016

It doesn’t seem like there’s a lot to write about, since we are here in the states. But we have been visiting our supporting churches and continuing to help Alisha’s mom at home. Even though I am anxious to get back to AP, it is good for us to be here now. I will be […]

Answered Prayer, Thank You!!

May 1, 2016

Thank you everyone for your prayers, we’ve made a decision! We have decided to leave for Papua New Guinea this summer. We have peace with this decision and Joel and Grace are thrilled to get back there. Tickets for the main leg of the journey have been bought. Praise the Lord that the air mile […]

Urgent prayer – April 2016

May 1, 2016

Please be in urgent prayer for us! April 25, 2015 It is in regards to our timing to return to PNG. We have been letting people know that our return would be either in August or January depending on the progress of the orthodontia (braces) on Joel’s teeth. We have heard from the orthodontist today […]

Preliminary Draft Of Simbari New Testament Complete!

April 30, 2016

Preliminary Simbari Translation draft complete! We are excited to report that David just completed the preliminary draft of the Simbari New Testament! (We started this translation draft about 13 years ago) Note the word, “Preliminary” which means the most difficult step of the process is complete but there are still many rigorous proofing and checking […]

Found in Translation

April 27, 2016

“I stayed up all night reading my new Bible because reading it in my own language was just so sweet I couldn’t stop.” Jaspa (said the day after we handed out portions of completed scriptures) Church Development is incomplete without Scriptures translated into the heart language. Imagine trying to relate with the heavenly Father or […]

It was was not Yesterday

April 26, 2016

It was not yesterday, it was 1977, but at times facts from the past stimulate my mind until it seems it was just yesterday. We were living in our little bush house located in the upper Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. This was a place Janie and I will never forget in our life […]