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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

True Knowledge comes from Christ

By Brian Paris

We met Patrick during our recent survey of the Anem and Amara languages in West New Britain Province. He lives in Mosiliki, an Anem speaking village, though he actually grew up nearby in Karaiai. When he was still young, he left his home to go to school in Kimbe, the nearest [...]

From King James Bible till Today

By Laura Roberts

2011 was the 400th anniversary of the completion of the King James Bible, the most widely read English translation ever produced. Now that 2012 has begun, I thought it would be interesting to research a little more about the history of Bible translation in my tok ples, or vernacular language, English. [...]

Inspiring Faith

By Rhonda Hayward

Yuwolim is my hero.  He doesn’t even realize it. He is a man of incredible faith. Inspiring faith.  Humbly, he considers it normal to trust God for all things, despite severe testing.

A few years ago, Yuwolim’s son, Jonah, began having multiple daily seizures.  We flew Yuwolim & Jonah to a [...]

Plane Day

By Emily Hinebauch

Day in the life of Emily wearing her  buyer-shipper (person who takes orders from teams living in the village, runs around town to buy items, and ships them off via plane, helicopter, boat, or car)hat.

(7:30 a.m.) I had it all planned out. I was going to go into the office [...]

The State of the Body

By Jacque Harper

While in Papua New Guinea GOOD HEALTH is of major importance to each of us but especially to those of us on the older end of time.  We are fortunate to have a wonderful Australian doctor just 3 blocks from our office but he is limited in his services to us [...]

Annual Gift Giving

Every year during this time, Pioneer Bible Translators has a special gift giving opportunity available. This year the branch in Papua New Guinea has two gift options.

Laptops

National translators in this isolated island nation are working to translate the Scriptures into their own mother tongues. As they work on Scripture drafting, they [...]

The Sob Christmas Story

By Chris Urton

Ede. Na mube kub kaiudi nono güre sinoyeregün. Bangar nub yanim Jisas yanübaue. Nu eregeam büreregeaga. Bangar Keriab Kekia Asaub Nono güdi yanübaweregen. Bangar Keriabüde, oyebeb Devit sibe erekokayau difereregeaga. Luk 1.31-32

Listen. You will be body heavy and you will carry one baby boy. Thus you will call his [...]

Creating Literacy Tools

By Diane Miller

The two Akukem Bible translators on the left in the above picture and the two literacy worker on the right speak the Akukem language.  They and one other literacy worker recently spent some time working in our Office in Madang.  The literacy workers completed shellbooks containing 20 different stories for their [...]

The Privilege of Being a Translation Consultant

By Norm Weatherhead

In August of 2007, the Papua New Guinea Branch of Pioneer Bible Translators invited me to come over to PNG so that I could attend a six-week course to be trained to become a Bible Translation Consultant.  This was very exciting for me as I had been asking God what He [...]

Life Interrupted

By Jill Riepe

My day started normal enough.  I got up at 5:30 am and got ready to run with the dog.  However, as I was getting ready, I noticed that my new kitten, Piita (means speedy in Ap Ma), had had an accident on the bathroom rug.  Well, that meant today would be [...]

What is Technical Services?

By Tyler Hewitt

As a temporary role assignment I am filling in for three months doing the routine Technical Services task list. Mostly the job consists of supervising and training two national men as they are the backbone of this job. Tech Services is another fancy name of ‘super maintenance man.’ Tech Services does [...]

Life in the Tropics

By Lori Witham

Returning after six-months in the States, it was almost as if I was seeing this hot and humid South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea for the first time. For the first two weeks while my senses were keenly aware of the differences from life in America, I jotted down [...]