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

Missionaries Gordon and Nancy Snider served at Zaporozhye Bible Seminary in Ukraine from 1996-2011. We continue to periodically support the seminary. Please consider whether you would like to make a donation for relief for Ukrainians affected by war. Mark Mackey, founder of Zaporozhye Bible Seminary in Ukraine, shared a prayer request today. He writes: " Our hearts are distressed this morning. We awoke to discover that the largest airstrike yet on Ukraine took place as we sle

The country of Haiti, and in particular the city of Port-au-Prince, is suffering under the heavy hand of gang rule. The Haitian Prime Minister has stepped down, and there is no permanent government in place. We have three churches in Port-au-Prince--Delmas 6, Delmas 32, and Boston Cite. Unfortunately, Boston Cite which was in an unsafe neighborhood for years, has had to close. Their pastor died 2-3 years ago, and now his son was recently shot and is in the hospital. Delmas 6,