2020-07 SIL-PNG Translation & Language Statistics 840 Living Languages This number comes from http://www.ethnologue.com/country/PG 142 Languages Currently Engaged These are languages that SIL-PNG has personnel assigned. 188 Active Language Personnel These are SIL-PNG teams that are currently engaged in language programs. This includes teams that are on remote assignment and are in… Continue Reading
Isaiah 12:3-5 You will joyfully draw water from the springs of salvation, and on that day you will say: “Give thanks to Yahweh; proclaim His name! Celebrate His works among the peoples. Declare that His name is exalted. Sing to Yahweh, for He has done glorious things. Let this be known throughout the earth. As Covid… Continue Reading
Here is a unknown day in the US calendar added by the US Congress. A unknown day dealing with a unknown epidemic (Bibleless people) Christianity Today Eunice K. Y. Or Fri 1 Oct 2004 1:17 BST https://www.christiantoday.com/article/30.september.world.bible.translation.day/1503.htm “30 September every year marks the World Bible Translation Day. The first Bible Translation Day was proclaimed by… Continue Reading
(Mal 1:11 [HCSB]) “For My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name in every place because My name will be great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Hosts. One notable thing about living in a tropical… Continue Reading
I touched on this topic in 2015 in “My personal tidal wave” Jodi has taken her last final in her Nursing Master’s program so our time in the US will be drawing to a close. We are looking to return to Papua New Guinea this coming January. Our thoughts turn to Bibleless people groups. People… Continue Reading
Georgia’s winter was colder than usual and it even snowed several times!! We look out our windows now to see the blossoms and leaf buds showing on the trees while they “wake-up” (as our 3yr old grandson puts it:). After a cold winter the warmth of the sun returns and nature comes alive. Jodi and… Continue Reading
PNG: March 2015 – September 2016 Ok, I thought it would be easier to use pictures to tell a story then to type it out. I am a guy can ya tell? See to the right side menu. “PICTURES:)” Thank you for another great year progressing through life and ministry with us! In Christ, Jay… Continue Reading
It is crazy to see that it has been 6 months since I last posted. I promise that I thought I only missed a couple of months for my monthly web posts. It has been a crazy and busy half of a year 🙂 We are in Georgia US now. Since May (my last posting),… Continue Reading
The center we live on in PNG is a small town. We are a community of approximately 600 missionaries, including families. We have a grocery store, hardware store, medical clinic, gas station, airport, post office, cemetery and more. Yes, we have a cemetery. I walk past it four times a day on my way to… Continue Reading
Back in January of 2016 Jodi and I were getting ready to head back to PNG.I wrote a blog called “View of Change /life-is-about-change/ In that blog I touched on a footnote that, “following Jesus is about Glorifying Him the way He tells me to. It is not about me or my view.” Serving on… Continue Reading