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Thirty Years and a Chicken
Thirty Years and a Chicken

Three decades ago Kyle and Kathy Harris began ministering among a people group deep in the tropical jungle in Papua New Guinea. The Nend people’s contact with the world beyond their territory had been very limited, and they’d been largely untouched by the Gospel....

Thursday Prayer Focus
Thursday Prayer Focus

One of our teammates facilitates a Bible translation in Africa, working primarily from her home in the U.S. Earlier this year she visited her friends in their desert home to share recently translated Scripture with them. She needed their feedback on how clearly and...

Hope!
Hope!

Decades ago Dave and Alice Parrish and their daughters established their home among the Mbore people in order to translate God’s Word for them. The people’s hope that they would one day have Scripture in their own language began to be realized. In the ensuing years...

Breaking Traditions: How Matthew 15 Resonated in a Mapa Church
Breaking Traditions: How Matthew 15 Resonated in a Mapa Church

A whip cracked outside the wood and thatch church building. Children screamed and ran. Adults, packed onto the log bench “pews,” tensed as they turned to look toward the entryway.  An old man stormed in, and his angry words tumbled out. My husband and I were still new...