Micheals' Memoirs - December 2022

MICHEALS’ MEMOIRS

December 2022 Update

Dear Friends and Family,

We are thankful that this year is ending on a high note. The change of jobs for Chuck has been good for him and he is really enjoying helping Wycliffe members all over the world with issues related to their care. The new Wycliffe team he is on has made him feel very welcomed and the training he has received has been top notch! Barb is also finishing the end of the year strong with many people going out as interns and volunteers.

Thanks to everyone who partners with us in prayer, encouragement and giving. While times have been challenging with higher prices, the Lord has again provided for our needs this year.

We want to take this time to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and pray this new year will be filled with blessings from the Lord as we together declare God’s glory to the nations!!!

Papua New Guinea

While it has been some time since we traveled to Papua New Guinea (PNG), Barb stays in touch with people she is sending as new missionaries there While Chuck is caring for missionaries around the world, he is also providing care for our missionary staff serving in PNG.

Over the years we have continued to stay in touch with people we know from PNG Jonathan and Kathy Wilson are a Bible translation team that we know. They are in their 32nd year of service in PNG and are doing translation work in the Binandere language

Recently the Binandere people hosted the Tainya Dawari, a language group who speak a

dialect of Binandere. Over 100 visitors traveled three days on foot from their villages with gifts of string bags, pots, and sleeping mats to exchange. The ladies in their villages also made gifts to exchange. That’s amazing because the Tainya Dawari and the Binandere people were enemies just 100 years ago. However, the Good News of Jesus has changed that now.

Location of the Binandere language

Jonathan and Kathy Wilson and a Binandere family

Binandere girls writing Bible verses and reading scripture

Bible Translation Work

Jonathan and his translation team have been busy at the translation desk hammering out verses in I and II Corinthians and Romans. Previously they had worked on the books of John, Galatians and Hebrews.

Prayer and Praises

• Please pray that the Lord would save Jared and also pray for Jonathan and Kathy Wilson as they work to complete the Binandere New Testament.

• Praise - For time this summer with our son Isaac, his wife Suzanne and son Ambrose who were home on a short break from their work with Wycliffe in Germany. Our daughter Rachel, her husband Chris and their four children also visited us at the same time

• Praise - For time with our grandson Ryan who is attending Taylor University. He spent Thanksgiving weekend with us and we had a great time together!

• Praise - For time this Christmas season attending Christmas programs for our grandchildren Kate and Garrett Struyk.

Partnering With Us

Jonathan and Kathy Wilson in the village house

A highlight of their recent time in the village was selling the Scripture books on market mornings three times a week. Early one morning, Kathy was at the market with Scripture books to sell. While the market was in full swing, Jared, a man from a nearby village, stopped by to purchase a book. Later that day, Jonathan asked Kathy how the day went. She reported the book sold to Jared.

On the following market day Jonathan saw Jared and asked if he had been reading his Binandere Scripture book. Jared replied, “Yes, I’ve been reading the Gospel of John and it’s really good.” Later Jonathan asked a few pastor friends if they knew who Jared was. They replied, “Yes, we know him and he’s a real heathen. Several months ago, we prayed for his son who was very sick and the young man miraculously recovered. But even after that, Jared has never showed up at church.”

To support our work (by mail), make checks payable to “Wycliffe Bible Translators”

Mark on separate sheet: “Preference for the Wycliffe ministry of Chuck & Barb Micheals, Account # 221879.” Mail To: Wycliffe Bible Translators P. O. Box 628200 Orlando, FL 32862-8200

Micheals Family

We greet our son Isaac, his wife Suzanne and their son Ambrose at the Olrando, FL airport

Our daughter Rachel, husband Chris Wassenaar and their family meet Isaac, Suzanne and Ambrose Micheals

Wassenaar kids – Hannah, Caden, Dawson, Saylor

Chuck and Barb with Isaac, Suzanne, Rachel and Chris

Isaac and Suzanne with our daughter Jenny and her husband Kevin Struyk

Isaac and Jenny – Two of our children

Isaac and Ambrose Micheals and Kevin and Jack Struyk go fishing

(L) Isaac and Suzanne and Ambrose Micheals, (R) Chris and Rachel and Hannah, Caden, Dawson and Saylor Wassenaar

Saint Andrew’s Church with family

Wassenaar’s at Gator Land

Wassenaar and Micheals family at Gator Land

Isaac, Suzanne, Garrett and Kate petting an alligator!

Oma and Opa with Ambrose at Sea World

Oma with the Micheals on Winter Park boat ride

Wassenaars at our house racing cars on Opa’s homemade race track!

Garrett, Jack and Kate Struyk with Ambrose Micheals

Oma showing pictures to Ambrose, Garrett and Jack

Dawson, Caden and Chris Wassenaar and Ambrose Micheals at summer picinic

Isaac and Ambrose with Chris and Dawson doing Legos

Caden, Jack, Dawson and Garrett catching lizzards in Opa’s backyard!

Oh boy!!! – Donut King!!!

Lots and lots of donuts at Opa and Oma’s house.

Soccer - Isaac, Ryan Mishler with Jack, Garrett and Kate

Jenny, Chuck, Rachel and Barb at Donut King

Rachel and Barb at our house

Isaac and Suzanne at Jenny’s 2 Year Old Pre-School Class

Jenny ‘teaching’ Jack, Kate, Garrett and Ambrose

Atlantic Coast Beach day!

Oma and Ambrose

Opa in neighbor’s pool with 3 grandchildren!

Opa building a treefort with the grandchildren’s help!

Isaac and Ambrose in the Blue Dolphin pirate ship!

Isaac, Ambrose, Opa at Detroit Tiger’s baseball game

Ryan, Isaac and Ambrose -Aresnal soccer game in Orlando

Ambrose wearing shirt Barb made for Isaac when we first came home from Papua New Guinea in 1987!

Isaac, Ambrose and Opa with pineapples just harvested from Opa’s pineapple garden

Best Pineapple ever!

Ryan and Opa stringing up Christmas lights

Kate with Papa and Mimi at her Christmas concert

Garrett with Papa and Mimi at hisr Christmas concert

(The Struyk and Wassenaar kids call us Papa and Mimi. The Micheals and Mishler children in Germany call us Opa and Oma)