Pray for Uno

April 1, 2016

This coming Sunday a Manubu’ Bible teacher will begin to teach the 40 lesson evangelistic phase of the chronological teaching program at a large village we’ll call Uno. There are a number of good-works-for-eternal-salvation churches there including ones that emphasis experience over biblical truth. Mahan tried to start teaching the evangelistic phase there a few […]

Serving One Another

March 31, 2016

Jared and some of the Physical Plant (maintenance) team had the opportunity recently of serving the Kitchen crew. They “manned” the dinning hall by serving supper one evening so that their co-workers could attend a Food Festival. It’s always fun seeing the look on the faces of our students when a change occurs in the […]

Superheroes By Design

March 27, 2016

Superheroes are pretty ridiculous. Sorry to offend all you superhero fans out there. But, seriously. Think about what they wear: tights with brightly colored underwear over it, silly masks, and capes that have no purpose but to flutter in the wind. Their superpowers are getting a little far-fetched as well. Banshee’s special power: his scream is really […]

Easter – 2016

March 27, 2016

Bringing Indigenous Churches To Maturity“It is finished”, was His cry! What was required A friend of mine, Trevor Mcilwain has a saying that I use quite a bit and that people really love. He says, “The good news of the gospel is NOT that you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. The good news of […]

He lives!

March 27, 2016

Il vit! Il vit! Je sais que mon Rédempteur vit! Wow. Easter morning service in West Africa was amazing. Like the chorus from the song above, it was all in French. (That means, by the way, “He lives! He lives! I know that my Redeemer lives!” And the tune was nothing like the old American […]

Geronimo!

March 25, 2016

Remember the old Disney movie The Rescuers: Down Under? There’s a part where the albatross, Wilbur, launches off a high-rise as he takes flight with the two mouse delegates. During the final stage of Jared’s flight training at NTM Aviation, he had to take off and land on a 900-ft. airstrip (small aircraft typically land on strips from […]

“This Changes Everything”

March 24, 2016

March Update “Did I miss something? Was I not supposed to cry? Did they hear the preacher, “Jesus is alive!”? If this is true, this changes everything…” “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins… But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits […]

“Thank the Lord It Is Not Good Friday”

March 24, 2016

This Thursday morning we awoke with the news that our Agutaynen neighbor gave birth to a son. At 6am, the village midwife was at our gate and excitedly shared with us all the details of the event that took place just a few hours before. If you don’t mind, we won’t share all those details […]

24 hours later

March 23, 2016

We’re scheduled to arrive in the capital of a West African nation on Wednesday evening, local time. Since the city’s been called the Paris of Africa, I imagine the city will be vibrant. Since I will have spent the last 24 hours in airplanes and airports, I imagine I will not be. Pray that we […]

A Trip to Colombia

March 23, 2016

A Poisoned Dart It was back in the early ’70s. The initial contact with the Nukak didn’t go as planned. Though Danny Germann was pleased at the seemingly smooth exchange of gifts — the accompanying poisoned dart in his neck wasn’t quite so pleasing. It took time to earn the trust of this remote tribal […]