Jots and Tittles

By Lori Witham (From the Autumn 2004 Storyboard article, Three Months Later)

A Bible translator can have difficulty believing it takes an average of three months to typeset a completed New Testament and get it ready for the printers. After all, the translation team spent years making sure each book was carefully checked with various [...]

Scrap Wood

By Lindy Pate

One of the Apal national translators stood outside our house with a scrap piece of wood. “Can I have this?” he asked. Requests aren’t unusual, but in this case the reason for the request was special. Jeffry wanted to make a communion tray for the church in another village. In a week, [...]

New Life Took Root in Samun

By Kelsey Coker

It was 4:00 in the morning, and the only light that shone before me was the dim, fluorescent glow of my flashlight as we hiked through the jungle on our way to the village of Samu. This being my first time in Papua New Guinea, my feet were not well-accustomed to the [...]

Changing Direction? A personal journey

By William Butler

It snuck up on us.

Eunice Messersmith, financial leader of PBT-PNG for many years now also serving as our Director, was suddenly quite ill. As she was on her way to see a doctor in Australia, Eunice asked me to temporarily hold things together until she could get back. In God’s wisdom [...]