From the rising of the sun to its setting,the name of the LORD is to be praised! Psalms 113:3 Back home: Praise the Lord with us that we are back in our Oklahoma home. It is so good to be home after 40 days and more than 3,300 miles. Our time away was wonderful. The […]
What profit has a man from all his labor in which he toils under the sun? Ecclesiastes 1:3 (NKJV) Greetings from warm Oklahoma where the temperatures are in the high 90s and the weather apps are warning of extreme heat. We are very thankful for air-conditioning as we “toil under the sun”. Translation work Our […]
Merry Christmas: From our house to yours, we want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year. In this atmosphere of fear that many are experiencing these days, God has appointed each of us to be His light bearers to dispel fear and to “Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders […]
He said to them, “Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” Mark 6:31 . Percentage completed: We received an email the other day from our field leadership team that the Higaunon Old Testament is 49.1 percent complete. We’re getting there! Thanks go to each of you who partner with us […]
A new era for the Amdu Hattons. Thank you to all of you who sent gifts and kind words to Judah in response to our last ministry update that was focused on his perspective on growing up in Amdu and what his future plans are. If you didn’t get a chance to see that video […]
Through the LORD’S mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning, Great is Your faithfulness. Lam 3:22-23 In this update: Travels ● A Surprise ● Miscellaneous ● Thank you Travels: In our last update we reported that I (Laura) was sick with bronchitis and an eye infection. Praise […]
Simbari Translation Ready for Typesetting Thank you for praying for us as we completed proofing and checking the text of the Simbari New Testament and Old Testament portions. Since completing the consultant checking on the translation in Feb. 2020 we have been working full time on a slow proof-read checking process of all 10,000 verses […]
GUH – REPRESENTS THE GUAHIBO LANGUAGE GROUP OF COLOMBIA Joyce Cain, a retired missionary from Colombia was excited after vising Colombia again recently. Comprehension checks were done on Old Testament portion verses that her deceased husband, Mark, and a Guahibo man had translated. According to Joyce, “Lord willing, around October of this year, 15,000 copies of […]
This is the day the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24 Unusual weather: Will Rogers is quoted as saying, “If you don’t like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it will change.” February has been an unusual month for us here. You probably heard that we […]