The World Mission Board announces a change in leadership in the home office. This coming summer, Mark Surbrook will be retiring from his role as Director and passing the baton of leadership to Dr. Jim Lo. Gratefulness for Our Current Director Director Mark has served many roles in relationship to World Missions through the years, beginning with his role as missionary when he and Linda first traveled to Haiti in the 1960s. Through his work on the ground and in countless visits

We are grateful for new converts baptized in Jamaica! They were saved in revival services at the Barnette church and were baptized by Pastor Hopeton Sutherland. Two faithful ladies minister at Barnette, including Pastor Richards.

The Solos translation program has done some amazing work, but the past few years have been marked by more issues than progress. There have been encouraging signs: a huge interest in starting a new team in Gagan village in the more populous part of the language area, new people wanting to join the Coastal team in Tung village, and a growing awareness of the need to promote language use and development as a key component of cultural preservation. Larry just returned from a tri

A team of four men traveled to Ghana in late January to visit the work and teach at the Pastor’s Conference. The team consisted of Travis Sayler, former missionary Jere Gowin, Bill Lee, and Dr. Jim Lo. Dr. Lo, who was himself a missionary for several years in Africa and is a friend of Jere’s, brought his book God’s Call to Holiness , which he used as the curriculum for the training sessions at the Pastor’s Conference, January 24-27. Jere, Bill, and Travis participated in the

Building Progress For the first time since it was started in 2000, Shiloh Bible College in Myanmar is getting its own, permanent location. The building project is underway, and it will soon have all the walls constructed for the four stories. These different floors will be for offices, classrooms, girls’ and boys’ dormitories, and a sanctuary for church services. The next steps will be to complete the electricity, plumbing, doors, windows, and etc. Dr. Andrew Bawi Ceu asks fo

At your local elementary school, how many books are in each classroom? In around 21 Solos schools in Papua New Guinea, there are no textbook readers at all. The children only have what their teachers write by hand on notebooks or on a blackboard to help them learn to read. In fact, in missionary Larry Doyle’s language study/survey in 2021 (pictured above), he found a pretty low and even declining literacy rate among the Solos people. This is a challenge that needs to be addre