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Halfway to the Cross

Halfway to the Cross

A delayed start? A slower teaching schedule due to restrictions in group gatherings? Community pressure for people not to attend the Bible teaching? A smaller number coming to the Bible lessons than we hoped? Yes, all those (and more) are things we have experienced over the past few months. But we have full confidence that […]
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Descendants: Amdu

Descendants: Amdu

Thank you to all of you who are praying faithfully for us here in Amdu. You are playing an indispensable role in the disciple making that is happening. As you pray the Lord is guiding us in wisdom. On Sunday God guided Benjamin into a conversation about the Cain and Abel story we were planning […]
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Fallen: Amdu

Fallen: Amdu

We’ve had some great conversations this week and shared some of those stories on our podcast this past Friday. Check out this link villagebible.church/amdu to hear more of the details there. It’s ironic that on this Mother’s Day weekend we are preparing to teach the lessons about the fallout of our mother, Eve’s, fateful decision […]
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Overcomer: Amdu

Overcomer: Amdu

Another week has begun for us here in Amdu. Yesterday both Bart and I were out meeting with people in two different hamlets each about 20 minutes’ walk from our main village. Interestingly, some of the people with the strongest appetite for God’s word have been coming faithfully from these two locations each day of […]
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Little Paska Update

Little Paska Update

I wanted to give you an update on Little Paska. He was able to get his MRI done in Australia. The foundation who is helping to organize a doctor and hospital had a fundraiser dinner planned specifically for Little Paska but when Covid-19 hit it had to be cancelled. We did receive news from the […]
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Meet Mr and Mrs Lewis

Meet Mr and Mrs Lewis

We did it! We enjoyed a beautiful and fun wedding for Ashley, a tribute to God’s grace, goodness and faithfulness in our lives. God blessed us, allowing us to come back to the US to enjoy this special event in Ashley’s life as she married Patrick Lewis. Though some things were a bit different than […]
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Good News!

Good News!

NTM PNG Business Office Good News! Finally, there’s some good news in 2020!  And, of course, it has to do with the Good News.  There are THREE tribal groups being presented with the gospel right now.  Amdu is teaching, Wantakia has just started, and Pei is within two weeks of finishing up. To get to this point, […]
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Remember!

Remember!

Today is Memorial Day. It is a wonderful day to celebrate, but I think there is enough people out there encouraging and talking on that that I don’t feel my two cents would add any more than what is already being said. I want to talk about a different kind of remembrance instead.   I […]
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Transitions

Transitions

Like many of you, we also have had to stay home with businesses closed. Here in the Greater Manila Area, we have been in enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) for two months. Our family was given a quarantine pass and only one person could go out at a time for only groceries or medicine. Lines to […]
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