Happy New Year from IBC and the Koppens! I hope you’re enjoying and flourishing in 2026 as much as we are! It was a rough end to 2025… My third daughter (Angie) broke her collarbone near the end of November and needed surgery. The Fall semester ended in December with...
Greetings from Steve and Sandy Aholt Sandy and I give thanks to the LORD, for without Him, we can do nothing. All of you, our prayer support team and our financial support team, help us to keep going for Jesus, until He takes us home, or takes us up to meet Him in the...
It’s not easy to write about the “failures” we experience in our ministries, but even Jesus saw one of His own twelve disciples chose Satan’s path over His. And he never returned. Three days before the end of the fall semester 2025, one of the IBC students decided to...
I hope you don’t mind if I take this opportunity to reflect on the past a bit. The highlight of 2025 for me was my trip east. It is such a privilege to be involved in so many of your lives over the course of the years! Thank you for your faithfulness to the Lord and...
Dear family and friends, Wow! 2025 is history and we are into 2026. We all wonder how that happened. Of course, it happens one day at a time. It makes one consider how we are spending our days, and if we are making each day count for the Lord. Earlier this month the...
Greetings all.....Just an update from us and also an update on Bella. Back story... Earlier, some of our Wana friends had to call an emergency flight to come and get their young 9 year old daughter, Bella, who had fallen over having lost feeling on one side, and fly...
Greetings from Arizona, I wish you and your loved ones a special Christmas season filled with joy, peace and hope. With both of my parents now in heaven, it’s been a strange end of the year with the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. This year was our first Kitchen...
Hey there! Here in Tucson the sun is still shining to the tune of high 70's in the day! We are in-between needing to turn the heat on for the cold desert nights/mornings but wanting to keep the house cool for the days. (yes, yes, I know... desert life is hard. Haha)...
Thank you for your love, prayers and gifts! We are deeply grateful for your huge part in sharing the love of Jesus with the Hewa tribal people of Papua New Guinea. Thank you! Thank you for your prayers for the Dedication of the Yifki Christian School! Many Hewa people...
Contentment. What does it mean to be content? Just coming off Black Friday, it’s worth contemplating. According to the December 2025 World Magazine, 31% of Americans who used credit for last Christmas’s gifts are still paying down that bill! Ouch! How many of them...
Greetings all, We have some SUPER news to share with you – The ship carrying our helicopter finally left the capital city and arrived our province last week.....Yeh!!! On Monday of this week they were able to truck it, under police escort, to our hangar at the local...
Dear Friends, Family, and Ministry Team Members, It seems like the years go by more quickly these days. Maybe it has something to do with our ages. Health-wise, it has been better than the few years before. Now, we are moving into the “falling apart” period of our...
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