Tag: Ethnos360

Last week almost all of the Manubu’ bible teachers gathered in the lowlands for their bi-monthly gathering to discuss issues and plan outreaches.  It was not only the bible teachers who gathered but many other Manubu’ believers and even many unsaved who came to observe.  Altogether 360 people gathered there. The unsaved did not, of […]

As the idiom goes here, “Their stomachs are not small.” Translation – They have a large appetite.  Now, that does certainly include greasy pork, delicately smoked rat, and the white mans’ noodles and rice. However, it also includes their hunger for Scripture. From the early days and our first printed Scripture portions, the local body […]

We have really enjoyed our time here in Madang province.  We arrived in January 2017 and, except for 6 weeks in bush orientation, we have been able to live here ever since.  We learned Pidgin here, made citizen friends, helped with two more e2 orientations after ours and helped with the Interface program for college […]

Over the years I have spent many years in some rough places to get the gospel in the hands of people that have never heard the good news about Heaven and life eternal; you know the eternal life Jesus talked about in John 17:3. “And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the […]

A large percentage of our flying is for patients requiring medical attention that they cannot get in their village. Many of our missionaries set up clinics in the early stages of language and culture learning. These clinics can treat the majority of ailments because most of them are caused by poor drinking water sources and unsanitary living conditions. However, […]

After many many years, Aaron too now has graduated his formal Glarro language learning. That means that he can communicate with locals and make sense of what they are saying. And of course there is always more to learn. However he will now focus on preparing bible lessons in the Glarro language. Back in 2017 […]

Wow.  Ten graduate credits in nine weeks.  All related to what I’m doing in My Country – linguistics and translation and such.  It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun and really good, too.  And besides the 1000+ pages I read or all the papers and projects I did, I learned a […]