The Dentist has arrived back in PNG and so on the 4th March, work started again for Anne-Laure as a dental assistant. They will be greatly missed by Koen and Anne-Laure especially granddaughter little Lucy Mae. This means that Josh and Erin will be going to the USA for two years. Pray for the financial side for that training and for the additional missions training too. Their son Josh was asked to take the helicopter training. The helicopter programme has now started. Koen has been working hard with managing the aviation side of the mission work in PNG. They are now working on preparing Papua New Guineans to become language consultants. This is a spiritual battle as it means that the translations take a long time to get into the hands of the believers. The sad thing is that teams have to wait far too long for their turn. They have ways of finding how well the translation communicates and how to make improvements. A consultant works closely with a tribal team in the translating of the Bible. Ninety percent of those translations are being used in the churches.Ĭurrently there is only one language consultant for PNG and it is not enough. God is good!Ĭurrently there are thirty teams working on the translation of the NT in their “tokples”, their tribal language. They also have three containers stacked with good teaching materials. The eighteen boxes of Bibles will be used for that project. There are also people trained to teach new teachers. There are now 2000 people trained that can teach about the good foundation needed in a church. The elders in churches want a good foundation. In some churches, a lot of work has been done but a good foundation was not laid down. When missionaries leave, the church needs to function on its own, but if a good foundation has not been laid then it will fall apart. Over the years, missionaries have established churches in PNG. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Bible was translated into Pidgin many years ago and now it has been translated into easy English. Last week, Koen and Anne-Laure Verdonck’s son Josh, a mission pilot, returned from Australia with the mission’s plane loaded with eighteen boxes of Bibles, printed in Pidgin English – one of the main languages in PNG.
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