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Update for the Fourth Week of February

Update for the Fourth Week of February

Dear Praying Friends, Coffee anyone? Our Isnag neighbors are beginning to make this year’s rice fields and they are also busy harvesting and drying coffee. An impressive lizard made an appearance outside my office window last week.  I ran out with the camera and took several shots before realizing that I didn’t have a memory […]
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Something To Cry About

Something To Cry About

“Give us something to cry about!” is a common line we hear from our Amdu friends on the eve of a long separation.  It seems to be the customary practice to give some of your belongings to your family and friends as a memory while you are gone.
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Growing Up

Growing Up

Four years old seems so grown-up to me. That’s the age when they start learning real things… like reading and counting and chores. That’s the age when you can have an actual, meaningful conversation with them that revolves around more than just food and toys. Judah turned 4 last month, and in the busyness of road-trippin’, […]
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What’s Going On With Us

What’s Going On With Us

New Arrivals We welcomed a new family to the field, which means getting their apartment ready.  This begins with moving the family currently living in their apartment, the apartment that we use for our new arrivals usually for the first 6 months they are here.  So we first had to find a host church and […]
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Written in the Dust

Written in the Dust

Where there once was green, lush grass, there is now bare, dry land.  The village wells that once were filled are now dry and abandoned.  Everywhere we look, we see the evidence that we need rain.  Even though the rains ceased about four months ago, the flowers still bloom.  However, their beauty is quickly covered […]
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Changing My Attitude

Changing My Attitude

When we first started going to our church here, I started going up to Sunday School with my boys.  I went with them because I wanted to help them integrate into our church and I knew they would be most comfortable with me around.  It also provided that added advantage that the teaching was at […]
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Why I’m going to Africa

Why I’m going to Africa

Spreading the gospel to “the ends of the earth” is the responsibility of each and every believer … but how do you do that? How do you make an impact, for instance, on Africa? Africa is huge. Much of the missionary effort over the years in rural areas has been ineffective, resulting in few disciples […]
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Books Available from the Knapps

Books Available from the Knapps

KNAPPNEWS MINISTRY UPDATE November, 2015 Dear Praying Friends; THANKFULNESS November represents the month of thankfulness to us. Our thankfulness is so broad we can easily come up with three things per day for the whole month. YOU are among those people we are thankful for. Thank you for keeping us before the Father in prayer. […]
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Fall News 2015

Fall News 2015

KNAPPNEWS Fall, 2015 NTBI New Tribes Bible Institute is part of the church planting mission organization New Tribes Mission that coordinates missionaries, sent by local churches, to take the Gospel to tribal people. For more than 50 years, we’ve been training the next generation of young people passionate about God’s glory and expanding the reach […]
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