After twenty years
“Our first efforts at translating into Mayangna were soon after Ben arrived in the territory in Nicaragua. We felt my people’s desperate need for scriptural teaching material, so we started translating La Antorcha de...
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Sunday, November 1, 2020
What is Team Launch? It is a 6-week stay here at the All-Nations base with your future team just before heading to the field. In our case the destination is Chihuahua State, Mexico to work among the Tarahumara people.
What is the reason for Team Launch? There are 3 main goals for this...
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Weekly in our little town in southern Mexico, early on Tuesday, we hear a distant airhorn. The “toot-toot” gets closer until finally it is at our door. It is a good sound: the trash truck! When it comes, we simply run the trash barrel out to the big stinky dump truck, toss the trash up to the...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
MJM writes from Colombia—
Oh the joys of language and culture acquisition! What does it mean when someone sends a Whatsapp message and asks, “Hey, could I come and stay with your family for a couple days?” In light of the fact that the last “couple days” visit ended up lasting a...
Friday, November 1, 2019
Today was a day of contingency training with Reagan, about "Risk and Incident" management. This day of training, unlike most, includes concepts that we hope the team never needs to practice! It included some very practical guidance and preparation for responding to hostage threats or incidents....
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
This colorful and often discouraging story of evangelism, Bible translation, church life—and syncretism—among a language group in Nicaragua presents a powerful case for faithfulness in every way as we reach out to the unreached. With poignant personal stories, Ben introduces us to the...
Sunday, September 1, 2019
The Mayangna people of Nicaragua have felt their vulnerability for many years. Now, as war rages throughout the country, they are not sure if they will survive. God cares for the oppressed, the underprivileged, the voiceless. How would He have His people respond?
The Mayangna used...
Friday, March 1, 2019
In 2016, our newsletter reported on peace talks underway between Colombia's government and the country's largest guerrilla group known as FARC. A peace deal did eventually go through, but how is it really working out?
Especially, what are the implications for God's children and messengers...
Friday, March 1, 2019
Yesterday we went to the visitation of a sixteen-year-old boy. We took along a case of Pepsi as a gift to the family, according to the custom of the village. Other people brought Pepsi as well, or flowers and candles to place around the corpse.
As we entered the small, one-room house, we...
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