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Mid-July 2018

Dear friends and family We have been having power problems so we didn’t get a report out last week. In the two weeks before I only got one lesson in each week. Wednesday morning the 4th the family got a call to go up to Liolofa to receive a bride price payment so they...

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July 2018

Dear friends, IBC teams are always well received by Native churches as they are amazed and blessed to interact with the joyful, mature, developing leaders that are IBC students. In May the Indian Bible College sent six teams of people out for “Promo Weekend.” Five of...

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July 2018

Adventures with Allison If you were one of those who threw away my August 2017 glossy card, mistaking it for an advertisement for basement cleanup services, you missed out on a scary yet humorous story about my emergency renovation last summer. So this June God gave...

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July 9, 2018

Dear Co-Laborers, Our last letter to you was dated May 7. We had no idea when we wrote that letter what the next day would hold for us as on the evening of May 8 we received news letting us know that my parents had both been instantly killed in a truck-car crash....

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Summer 2018 Update

  The Ethnos360 Connection Center Pre-field Orientation (PFO) was held over 10 days and went very well. It was a blessing to meet face to face with these new associate members who I had worked with in the application process over the last year. Also, it was great...

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July 2018

July 2018

Sorry to be a few days late. It has been an interesting summer thus far. Praise God I was able to finish my class with Columbia International University. It was an exhausting, rewarding, fascinating class and I am grateful to have learned a significant amount of new...

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July 2018

Dear Team Members, G’Day from wet Florida!!!!!!! As I was typing this it was thundering and lightning in our area!! We think this is the wettest year since we arrived 11 years ago this month. We are trying to be prepared for hurricane season this year. Last year when...

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July 2018

July 2018

Last month this timely and highly relevant note came out on the Ethnos360 weekly prayer bulletin from our mission headquarters in Sanford Florida: How does this process of discipleship work? Not quickly. It requires years of patient modeling and mentoring. Thriving...

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June 27, 2018

Dear friends and family The start of phase 2 at Koropa got off to a slow start. Tuesday afternoon the village was deserted and no one came that night. I was a bit discouraged and wondered if anyone was going to come this week. But next morning a good group came...

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June 26, 2018

We were in a remote area named Aziana. We were invited for two reasons; firstly to speak to a group of church leaders and their wives. What an earnest and eager group! What a great time in the Word. Secondly, we were to attend a recognition ceremony. About 3 years...

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June 26, 2018

Dear Friends, What a week it has been. Last Monday I had surgery to remove my gallbladder, the first time I’ve ever been in the operating room. It has taken me a few days to recover and I still have to take it easy for another couple of weeks. So far there have been...

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June 26, 2018

Dear Friends, Greetings from PERTH.. my, it has been cold! It seemed there wasn’t much in the way of autumn.. and all of a sudden WINTER is here. However, I am still endeavouring to walk most weekday mornings. I began this email 3 weeks ago – to announce the arrival...

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