Of taking a break, celebrating a New Testament and other things!

April 10, 2025

“I know that You can do everything,And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You. Job 42:2 (NKJV) Greetings once again from our jungle home. What a joy it is to see God at work in and through His children. He is fulfilling His purpose and for that, we are eternally grateful. Here’s a […]

Ezekiel and Hosea are checked!

February 14, 2025

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised. Psalm 145:3a (NKJV) Greeting from our jungle home. We hope this finds you doing well and that you are encouraged by all God is doing in your life. Checking progress: We arrived in the village on January 20th and after spending just two days settling in, […]

Praise the Lord for travel, 26 baptized and tickets!

November 4, 2024

Join us in praising the Lord. We are thrilled to share the latest news from our Higaunon brothers and sisters in Christ. Just last week, we received a message from one of the outreach villages reporting that 26 new believers were baptized! While we usually see pictures of baptisms in rivers, this time the baptism […]

Ostmans – back in the Philippines

February 3, 2024

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities… for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. from 2 Corinthians 12:10 Our arrival Hello from our jungle home where everything has been very wet since our arrival. In our previous updates, we mentioned Lance’s health and what the doctor said. Here we are in […]

Ostman News with some unknowns

January 1, 2024

But let all those rejoice who put their trust in You; Psalm 5:11a (NKJV) In our last update we mentioned that peace was the word God was impressing on us. That we needed to keep our focus on HIM to have His peace, joy, and hope, regardless of the situation in which we find ourselves. […]

Equip, Tickets, Family, and More.

November 9, 2023

And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. Colossians 3:17 (NKJV) Hello from Oklahoma! We continue to be filled with gratitude to the Lord for all He is doing in our midst. Equip Asia: In the third week […]

Simbari Bible Dedication

October 9, 2023

Preparation In the months leading up to the Bible Dedication the Simbari church had sent letters of invitation to 10 different villages. Some people from these villages were threatened by a religious group that opposes the Gospel. Because of these threats the Simbari church had no idea how many people would actually show up. But […]

What’s happenings with The Ostmans?

June 26, 2023

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it. Brethren, pray for us. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-25 (NKJV) Greetings from Oklahoma. We are thankful to […]

Simbari Bible Publishing Completed

June 5, 2023

Praise God, the printing of the Simbari Bible is now complete! We have received copies of the finished Bibles and inspected them. They are very high quality and they turned out even better than we thought they would. The main shipment for Papua New Guinea will depart the Netherlands in about a week and should […]

Christ is Building His Church

April 7, 2023

Here’s some news about the Palawano church where we worked for many years. An brief update about our health concerns is at the bottom of this post. The Church on Palawan is Thriving We’ve received encouraging reports from coworkers (and messages from Palawanos on Facebook!) about how the church continues to meet, studying the Palawano […]