SIL-VBT anniversary

This year marks 30 years of SIL (who we're working with here in Vanuatu) and VBT (Vanuatu Bible Translators - the local arm of Bible translation in Vanuatu) working together to produce God's Word in the local vernaculars (languages).  I was privileged to be a part of the celebration that took place this week.  Praise God for the Scriptures that now exist in a few of the 100+ local languages of Vanuatu and pray with us for more workers for this field white unto harvest!

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30th anniversary of SIL-VBT in Vanuatu singsing

Check out this video of members of the VBT singing in Bislama (local trade language) at the 30th anniversary of SIL-VBT in Vanuatu. If it doesn't load correctly, you can link to it here: http://youtu.be/2sgSukgKP-w

Seeing friends in Oz

In addition to some great church and small group connections where we were able to share what God is doing in Vanuatu, we had a lot of excellent opportunities to hang out with some good friends as well.

 Houghton with Mike, Aaron, and Lee.

 With our friends the Bells, who minister to Turkish people in Australia.

 With Kristen

 Mmmm, our friends Lorette and Allan invited us over and treated us to Lebanese food.  We used to get it a lot at our church when we were living in Melbourne and going to Bible translation school but we'd missed it these last few years!

 Jesiah and Jacob.

 Gretchen, Stephanie, Lorette, me and Lorette's mom, who cooked all the great food for us!

 Houghton and Allan.

 Alana, Gweny, Stephanie, and Addy.

 Houghton preaching at Grace Baptist in their new building! 

Grace hosted a potluck after the service we presented in so we got to catch up with a lot of old friends.

We also got to spend some good time with many other good friends but unfortunately don't have great pictures from those times.  I praise God for these brothers and sisters in Christ in Australia and for their friendship and fellowship.

Our hosts in Australia

We were so privileged during our time in Australia to stay with our friends Phil and Lenna and their daughter Kristen.  They are fabulous hosts and we enjoyed being able to see them on the weekends and evenings.  Our friends Emmanuel and Marie Claire and their new baby Ezekiel came over several afternoons and evenings as well so we got to see a lot of them too.  They've been serving in Thailand and are now praying about whether to return or to head to another field so please pray for wisdom for them.

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I thank God for the time we had with these great friends in Australia before returning to Vanuatu!

Leaving Montana, USA

My last days in the US in February 2012.

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