Signing up to learn a new language always brings some challenges with it. A huge time investment and lots of self-discipline will always be required, as well a healthy tolerance for being seen as stupid or strange as a result of inevitable blunders. Other challenges are language-specific and can...
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Thwack, thwack, thwack! I stepped out one fresh morning and was greeted by the sound of my neighbor’s ax splitting firewood. The wife was starting her day by splitting wood to make tortillas over a fire. The man was already outside close to the goat pen. He was carefully shoveling goat manure...
In 2022, the Mayangna translation team faced many difficulties, changes, and blessings. After an invasion of Mayangna lands in 2021, several Mayangna who were influential in protecting the land were arrested and accused of planning the attack on their own people. Please pray for the rapid...
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“Why don’t you just teach the people Spanish rather than trying to learn their language?” This question is a common one when people hear that we are spending so much time learning the indigenous language. So why would my team spend 3+ years to learn the Tarahumara language? The main reason is...
Join me up here on the hill behind our little adobe house, and we’ll look out over the bowl that is our village. The sun is just about to set, and the mountains have an orange, hazy glow about them, which mixes with the smoke from dozens of evening cooking fires. I call it the Golden Hour. In...
For over a year now, our sights have been set on the Ahsatdah people. God has opened an amazing number of doors in the past year as we have begun zeroing in on the Ahsatdah project goal—a Bible translation and a representation of the body of Christ among these dear souls.
We began a...
In December, Strength to Strength hosted All-Nations member LH in their Patriotic Ambassador series, to discuss "Crossing Cultures."
Being an effective ambassador requires a familiarity with the society in which we represent our King. What...
Who are the unreached people groups and how unreached really are they? What are some keys for extending the reach of the Gospel cross-culturally to these peoples?
In August 2021, Church Planters Forum and Retreat hosted a...
Navigating rapids, crossing precarious log bridges, sloshing through knee-deep water, and doggedly trying to keep up with our native guide. These were a few of the physical exercises that kept my body busy on our most recent hike in the jungle. Yet in spite of the physical exertion, I still had...