MICHEALS MEMOIRS October 2005 PAPUA NEW GUINEA TO RECEIVE NEW WORKERS! RECRUITMENT UPDATE
While it has been over five years since we came back from Papua New Guinea (PNG) we still stay very connected to Wycliffe’s work going on there. Since it has been more than five years you may also wonder how what we now do with Wycliffe impacts the Bible translation work going on in PNG. In this newsletter we hope to show how your partnership with us is still making on impact around the world and especially PNG. About four years ago, we had an opportunity to meet Johanna. She had recently graduated from a college in Minnesota, Magna Cum Laude. We invited her to attend Trans Scan (a one day Bible translation workshop) in
Chicago, IL. At that course she spoke with us about her interest in Bible translation. We shared with her our work in Papua New Guinea and soon after attending our translation recruiting course she decided to join Wycliffe. Since that time, Johanna attended our Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (GIAL) school in Dallas, TX and studied linguistics and Bible translation. While at GIAL she met CJ who was also interested in service with Wycliffe and soon the two were married.
ORLANDO UPDATE Today, God has given Chuck the opportunity to not only effect the lives of a handful of students, but in his role as Vice President of Mobilization for Wycliffe USA he now has the opportunity to provide leadership to hundreds of Wycliffe recruiters in the States. His job is to help set vision and direction for our U.S.A. recruitment work. His travels have taken him recently to Lancaster, PA, Albuquerque, NM and Waxhaw, NC to meet with recruitment team members and his future travels this fall will bring him to Okalahoma, California and Pennsylvania.
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C.J. CJ is a skilled warehouse and construction person and Johanna is a skilled linguist/translator. So, they headed to our JAARS Center in Waxhaw, NC for a period of two years where CJ kept up the JAARS facility and Joanne worked as an editor of a translation publication. Recently we received news that they are needed in these areas in Papua New Guinea! They wrote us to say thanks for informing and challenging them to consider Bible translation work.
Johanna
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Barb is now serving part time in Mobilization with Wycliffe working with contacts from a new web portal that people age 20 – 40 are beginning to use to access opportunities for service with Wycliffe. The Mission Next web site is being developed in cooperation with the Finishers mission agency. Mission Next is being developed so that Christians can fill out a personal profile online and then a computer match will be made based on profiles that Wycliffe has developed for our 2900 current job openings. Chuck’s Mobilization department is providing leadership in the development of this site and Barb will be primary point of contact for people filling out the profile.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA TO NEW TESTAMENT DEDICATION!!!
celebrated the dedication of the New Testament in their language this year:
Our co-workers in PNG, Roman and Carolyn Hostetler just informed us that the Vasui (Tinputz) New Testament they worked on for 33 years was finished and dedicated August 6, 2005 in PNG! Roman and Carolyn were in our Bible study in PNG. In PNG Chuck served their grocery and other household needs at the SIL Member’s Store and Barb served their children in the library at Ukarumpa High School.
1. The Saniyo-Hiyewe New Testament on 8 January in tropical jungle just south of the Sepik river; 2. The Kamula New Testament on March 19 in the Western Province near Wawoi Falls; 3. The Kalo New Testament on May 15 along the coast east of the capital Port Moresby; 4. The Daga (a retranslation) on June 18 in the mountains of Milne Bay Province; 5. The East Kewa New Testament on July 2 in the Southern Highlands; 6. The Namiai New Testament on July 8 in the mountains dividing the south and east of PNG; 7. The Wuvulu New Testament on July 17 on an isolated island 120 nautical miles north of Wewak; 8. The Vasui New Testament on August 6 on the island of Bouganville; 9. The Mende New Testament in the hills between the Sepik River and the coast on September 13.
The Vasui people live on the PNG island of Bouganville, which is off the coast of the PNG mainland. In the past there has been fighting on the island which made travel for the Hostetlers difficult at times. However, God preserved them and now the Vasui people have God’s Word for the very first time in their heart language. You can read about the dedication at:
We want to continue to say thank you to each who pray and finically support us. Since we don’t receive a salary your support and prayers are needed!
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We hope you know how important your support through us has been for the Vasui people. Invaluable!!! For the 15 years we were in PNG we were able to support their work directly. Now, we now work to support them by encouragement and the sending of others to join in the task of completing the over 300 New Testaments that wait to be started. The Vasui were among nine PNG people groups who have
PRAISES
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We now own a home thanks to many family and friends who gave generously. Our new address is to the right. We hope you will come and visit us. For a wonderful day of prayer we had in August. Over 100 of Chuck’s staff spent the entire day and evening in prayer experiencing the presence of God as we again committed ourselves to Him and His work.
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For many supporters who continue to stand with us by financially sending in monthly support for 21 years! We could not do our work without you! Jenny is now living with us and going to the Reformed Theological Seminary.
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Pray for upcoming Mobilization meetings that Chuck is hosting in Orlando, FL in December to determine how best we can work with churches in the U.S.A. There are over 325,000 Christian churches in the States and only around 60,000 have had any contact with Wycliffe.
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Pray for Barb as she begins her recruitment work with people whose names come from the Mission Next web site. Pray for Jenny as she begins her graduate work.
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OUR NEW ADDRESS Chuck & Barb Micheals 5167 Poinsetta Ave. Winter Park, FL 32792 Tel: (407) 671-2817 Email: Chuck_Micheals@wycliffe.org Barb_Micheals@wycliffe.org FOR OUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT Wycliffe Bible Translators P. O. Box 628200 Orlando, FL 32862-8200 Marked for ‘Chuck & Barb Micheals’
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