Tuesday, February 13, 7:00 pm ET
Join us for a 1-hour update with the Sungai team on cattle ranching and language learning in Southeast Asia.
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Tuesday, February 13, 7:00 pm ET
Join us for a 1-hour update with the Sungai team on cattle ranching and language learning in Southeast Asia.
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In our journey to work with the Sungai people, I hoped to use my hands-on skills and love for farming to bring the gospel to them. It has been a long journey. We started on visitor visas. We tried doing some nonprofit work, but did not get much interest in the program. Eventually the opportunity...
Yesterday a neighbor inquired, “Could you give us a ride to a birthday party an hour away, since you have a van?”
We still don’t know whose party it is, but Dad consented, so now he’s taking out the back seat and spreading our rug for them to sit on. It’s time to go! All dressed up, our...
A year ago as I moved my family into the cultural center of the Sungai tribe in southeast Asia, I remember looking around and feeling awed and overwhelmed at the dominance of Islam in this region. I saw huge mosques, little mosques, training centers, and devout Muslims all over. I wondered why...
All-Nations Live, Fall 2020
Thursday, November 12, and Tuesday, November 17, 7:00 pm EST
Join us for a 1-hour update featuring the following:
...Recently I went with one of my local friends, Mr. W, who works for the department of transportation, to learn about beekeeping with local stingless bees. We met with Mr. X who has a lot of colonies of these bees. I bought two hives from him. He told me he also had some Asian hive bees (which...
What do you get when you take an Anabaptist farm boy and his family from the mid-western United States and deposit them on the other side of the earth? You get culture shock. In our training we learned about culture shock. I am grateful for our training. It removed the element of surprise....
This past weekend several ABT representatives had the privilege of assembling in Kansas with two churches that are sending a Bible translation and church planting team to Southeast Asia. It was exciting to see these churches taking another important step in the long-term work of sending and...
By a member of the Sungai team
In 1525, two momentous events took place involving two people groups from opposite ends of the globe. In Switzerland, the leaders of my people decided to leave a false, dead religion and follow God according to the Bible. This decision...
It wasn’t the first time someone completed ABT’s training track with Phase II Inhouse Training. But it was the first formal graduation dinner, with most of our board members present!
Phase II Training with the team heading to Indonesia included a number of firsts for us. You might call...