Abel and Sarah Miller connecting you to tribal missions 02/01/11
- A 8 foot rock python
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Thanks for your faithful prayers. We are amazed as we watch the Lord prepare the way for us as we continue to follow Him. Recently I made a 3 week trip out to East Africa with two other men. We met with 15 different missionary families, representing 6 different mission organizations to find out how and where NTM would be the most effective. The trip served to help unify the missionaries serving there, and as we finish compiling the information gathered and send it back to them, they will be able to used it as a resourse as they make decisions for future ministries. We traveled over 4,000 Tanzania miles on busses through wildlife reverves and over dirt roads. I was back in the states for 2 days and then made a trip to Florida to present to findings of the trip to the South East African coordinator.
We are working hard at raising support for the upcoming ministries we’ll be doing in East Africa, and the efforts take up nearly all of my waking time.
Please be praying for
-endurance during this time
-for people to be excited about the ministry that the Lord has laid before us, and be supportive of it
-for quality time with the family (Andrew and I just had a half hour of “camping” in the basement before he went to bed, which was fun)
We will be moving back to California (Lord willing) at the end of this month
Please be praying for
-the check over of the van before the trip to be thorough
-us to be selective in what we keep, and what we give away
-the time we’ll spend with our church in Missouri (they’re growing very fast- not in numbers, but in the Word… we’re excited to be with them again)
We are dong well as a family.
Andrew is the sweetest big brother I’ve ever seen or even heard of.
Heidi is a handful, but also very sweet. She loves to sing to herself, and to her dolls, and to her stuffed animals, and to her blanket…
Pacey is almost sleeping through the night.
Sarah is very helpful in everything. She is the one who goes to the post office to mail all of our letters and packages, she makes the meals. She is on a juicing kick right now. If it can go through the juicer, we’ve probably had it in the last few days (She says cookies won’t work, but I think if mixed with milk, they ought to go through fine…). She’s always asking what more she can do to help. She’s the best.
I’m overwhelmed with taxes, finishing a dossier, getting passports, applying for visas, figuring out language schools and housing arrangements and preparing presentations for churches, etc.
I’m encouraged by the time spent in East Africa this last month. I’m excited with how the Lord has been using us in the lives of so many people, and them in ours..
I’m enjoying the tea that Sarah makes, and having Pacey fall asleep on my chest. God is good, and He provides the rest needed, and the encouragement to go on.
It’s a wonderful, wonderful thing to be in the service of the King.
- abel for the millers
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01/12/12
January 2012
Some linguists and surveyors that we got to meet and have tea with
Stoked. Stoked on the information gathered on this last 3 week redeye trip to East Africa. Stoked on the appointments that we didn’t make, but that God had arranged before us. Stoked that the Lord used my busted-up leg to focus an ADD kid into an intentional minister of the Gospel. Stoked that He uses people for this ministry of reconciliation. Stoked that there is a mediator between God and man. Stoked!
But man, I’m tired. This is a tough life, but one filled with uncountable blessings. As we put out our hands, and see what the Lord has for us, Sarah and I are amazed with what the Lord puts into them. His plan for His people, in His way (and in His time). God deals IN time, but time is nothing for Him! What if what the Lord is doing with us doesn’t come to fruition for 500 years? What if we don’t get to see why we have done all of this work, and been through all of these trials? Answer- (One that needs to be answered with another question) Why are we serving the Lord? If we’re serving Him to see fruits, then we’d be disappointed with a life of ministry that has seemingly bore little fruit. If we’re serving Him because we’re in LOVE with THE CREATOR GOD who called for perfection or else elimination, and then stood in the gap, calling us justified- by His righteousness, then we can live a stoked life, because we know that He is trustable. I CAN trust Him with my life. Crazy, God.
I went with some guys on an information-gathering trip to East Africa. We met with 13 different groups of people, asking them several questions. The feedback we got was unexpected, and will shape the way that we “Do” ministry in East Africa. I believe that going in with our hat out, asking for guidance, has saved us 10-20 years of growth in ministry, and making mistakes that these folks have already made. The insight that these folks have into the culture and the mind of an East African is amazing. Thank you God for the Body of Christ, and Your provision to complete Your work.
We are moving again (this puts us over 20 times in the last 5 years). This time we’re moving back to California for a few months. Please be praying for our trip out there. It’s a long trip (2,400 miles), and we have 3 kids under 4 years old. A few months later, we’ll be moving out to East Africa full time, so you could be praying for that one also (10,074 miles, but we don’t have to drive it).
- Please be praying for family time in these next few very busy months.
- Please be praying that churches and individuals will be excited about the ministry that the Lord has given us.
- Please be praying that we would be real people and not celebrities as we talk to people and groups.
- Please be praying for folks to be a part of our ministry
- Abel for the Miller’s
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Tags: NTM, Tanzania and back
12/05/11
12/05/11
Andrew, Heidi, and Pacey give "Thumbs up."
We’ve got a new baby! We’re so excited to introduce you to Pacey Anne Miller, who was born on the 12th of November here at Sarah’s parent’s house in Ohio. What a crazy miracle babies are! Here is a picture of the kids giving “thumbs up.” Heidi’s trying, but doesn’t quite have it down yet. She’s super cute and loves her sister. Andrew is also doing a great job with them both. Sarah is doing great, and starting to get into the swing of things again. Adding a third has been crazy, but we’re getting used to it.
I am heading back to Tanzania in January with two other men from New Tribes Mission (AJ Backes and Stephen VanKampen) to get a better idea of where we will be serving, get good pictures so folks back in the states can have a better idea of what life is like there, and make arrangements for language school.
Now that we have finished our training, we are moving on to raising support for the ministry that the Lord has given us. To raise support, we are meeting with Churches and * individuals and trying to form a team of folks that want to join in the ministry going on in Tanzania. This is an exciting time for us, but also very exhausting. Please be praying for endurance as we meet with churches and individuals. Please pray that we would be rested going into the meetings (a miracle with all the kids’ needs right now), and able to communicate the ministry plans in a clear way.
The “rough” ministry plan-
·Language school in Iringa- 1 year
·Plant and build a Church in a village North of Sumbawanga
- We’ll be there until the church matures, and sends out missionaries of their own
·Continue to support and be active in the Church in Tanzania, advising Tanzanian missionaries while ourselves
moving with a group of *faithful Tanzanians to an area on Lake Tanganyika to start teaching through Firm Foundations and as a result planting Churches among fishermen there.
Tanzania
This is a very rough, and early idea of what we might be doing while in Tanzania. A lot of what we do is day-to-day loving of folks, and is hard to express, so the above outline is an idea of where we’re heading, with a lot of the details left out, partially to protect our work, and partially because we will be doing what the Lord wants us to do while we are there, and in His way as far as we know, and we’ll be progressing in His good time. All of our plans are “Lord willing,” and subject to change- James 4:13-15.
*-Please be praying for faithful men and women to be saved, and prepared to join us in this ministry.
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11/01/11
ABC Family & Friends,
Thank you so much for your continued support through prayer! These last
months we have been so glad for the prayers. As you all know, I have been
practicing with the Cherokee language the processes of language
interpretation and analysis from “nothing” to a full explaination of
building words, phrases, clause roots, clauses, sentences, and a discourse
analysis. After 7 1/2 weeks of eliciting utterances from my Chreokee
helper (who we lived next to while in Oklahoma), and organizing the
information at nights, I sat down three weeks ago to begin the explaination
of the language, from the actual sounds that they’re saying (phonetics), to
explaining the sounds that they think they’re saying, to presenting them
with a working alphabet (assuming for the point of practice that they did
not already have one). That completed, a week and a half ago I began to
explain how to make a noun in their language (including the seperation of
noun classes, plurality in each case, mode, aspect, tense, etc. with
definitions and lists of each), and then a verb (including the seperation
of verb classes (all seven of them) how to figure out which actor-person
prefix goes on the verb, completion, stative, etc. with definitions and
lists of each), and onwards and upwards through the language until
yesterday, at 3 o’clock p.m., when I turned in my presentation. It was 103
pages of organized explaination. I honestly didn’t think I would do it. I
didn’t think it could be done by me. I. I. I… But through your prayers,
and by God’s grace and patience, it is done. God is amazing! Looking over
the papers I feel like I was part of a miracle. I’m not that guy. I’m not
the linguist, or the computer guy that can do crazy formatting and type
fast (I certainly can’t type without looking at the keyboard!). That God
would chose to use me for this type of ministry is a bad idea. I may be
one of the first picked in a dodgeball game, but if we lined up the
linguists who have just finished this practicum, I’m pretty sure I would be
picked last… That’s honestly the way I feel… But God (Isn’t
thaty a good phrase?!) chose me to do this, and then made it happen minute
by minute, and character by character as I typed, and reasoned, and
explained for three weeks 8-10 hours a day every day (I took two Saturdays
off). !! Thanks for your prayers. Praise God with me that He’s so amazing
that he could use even me to do something this great. All I did was hold
out my hands and pray “God, here I am. You give me everything I have,
whatever You want me to do just put it in my hands.”
I identify with the folks there at ABC who are squirming in their
seats with this message of living radically. A radical life is what we’re
called to live though, and I’m thankful that I have so many examples of
radical people around me. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great
a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which
clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set
before us, looking unto Jesus, the founder and perfector of our faith, who
for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is
seated at the right hand of the throne of God.” I’m stoked that your
leaders there at the Church are willing to challenge folks, and be
challenged themselves towards greatness, not greatness as the world sees
it, but towards the greatness that matters. Please remember that your
prayers are so important to the work that we do. PLEASE don’t pray
lightly, checking it off of your list and moving on to the next item on the
agenda. We are a team. We are the Body of Christ. We work together,
having been entrusted with this crazy ministry of reconciliation, for the
purpose of fulfilling the great comission. It doesn’t matter where you
see yourself. God is using each of us in His way.
For Want of a Nail
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail
Mary Kowal
Thanks for continuing to pray for us as we live by faith trusting the Lord
to provide for our every need. You are doing the same thing. He has given
us all that we have.
We are expecting a baby this coming month (due the 21st). Please be
praying for the delivery to go well, and for Sarah to be a champ through
it. She is excited for the new one, as are the kids and I.
If you want an electronic copy of the Cherokee work, just write and ask,
and promise not to distribute it, and I’ll send it your way.
Love you guys. Keep running strong. We’re running with men now, but wait
’till we start running with the horses (Jer. 12:5)! Trust the King and
Creator, If He said it, it’s trustworthy.
-abel
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Tags: NTM, Running with the horses- Linguistic problem done!
10/05/11
Family & Friends,
Thanks so much for praying for us. We have been hammered through this Cherokee practicum, and have grown much from the experiences that we have had. I fully expect to document several of the happenings and forward them to you at a later date. For now, however, I ask that you suffice it to leave for a later time. I am writing this towards the end of my write-up of the Linguistic Analysis of the Cherokee Language. I am doing this to practice, in a controlled environment, what we may be doing in the future.
Though I am 30 now and have a family, I am pretending. I am pretending that the Cherokee people have never had their language written down, that they have no alphabet, and no way to explain to outsiders how their language works. There are thousands of tribes to which this scenario is a reality. The process is incredibly involved, and takes a lot of time and focus. I have 6 days, after today, to finish my write-up. I have just passed the 70 page mark, and am happy with the paper thus far. Please be praying for me that I would be focused, and pursue excellence.
I have already far exceeded the expectations that I had for myself (Praise God!). I am wanting to go for the passing grade rather than do the best that I can do. Perfect practice makes perfect, right? We should do all things as though we’re doing them for the Lord, right? I want to do that. This practice isn’t like the practice exercises I did in school, adding ten and two when I already knew the answer… This is the real deal, preparing for translation work- where excellence and perfection are the necessary standards. It’s ridiculous that I sit here today having reached this point in training… please pray that I would finish strong.
Andrew held my leg this morning and asked me to stay instead of going to work. You should have seen the kid! We’ve had good wrestling time, and spent time together, but I sure look forward to when I can spend some time with the family. Please be praying for energy after I get home from sitting all day engaged in another language, that I would be able to wrestle hard, chase the overthrown ball, flip the kids, and be joyful and engaged with them.
Sarah is due November 21st. She is very uncomfortable in the pregnancy.
Please be praying that she have the endurance and patience to get through this time while I have to be away. Next Monday at 8 a.m. central standard time I will turn in this paper. I look forward to being done, and presenting the result of living with the Cherokee people for 7 1/2 weeks, and writing up this report for 3 weeks. I hope it’s excellent.
As always, please pray that I would be an excellent husband. With marriage being an example of Christ loving the Church, this should be a huge focus for me. I’m so focused on this project that I know sometimes Sarah feels neglected.
Pray for excellence. Pursue the excellent one.
-abel
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09/07/11
Hey guys!
I hope you are doing well. I was eating an apple yesterday and was
struck by a simple cool thing. Isn’t it so cool that God made plants so
productive and their fruits so tasty? God doesn’t eat them, so He must
have made them so tasty and brightly colored so we could enjoy them and
know that He is Good! Pretty simple, but so sweet to think about a God who
provides everything down to even a simple thing like fruit.
Cherokee is going well, though it is getting more difficult as we start
to recognize the different things in the language structure that are
different that English. Sure, the sounds are going to be different, but
when the word order in a sentence, and the way that all of the little
in-between words attach to different words- like pluralizing a verb instead
of the noun, and moving the quality words all over, and introducing tone,
and having tone make a difference and more, it gets crazy. Praise God
that he is a God of order, and that He is the Creator of all languages. I
know that at the end of this, there is going to be an explanable pattern,
and I’ll be able to teach the language, reproduce the sounds and sentences,
and write it out because He is orderly and exact. Thanks God.
Here is one of the lines out of my gathered data so far:
ˈsĩ¹n ˈdᶾi¹tɑː³²lˈɡɑ¹ u³niː³²ˈdᶾi¹ (dowʌ²ˈdʌ¹)ʔu²ki¹lə̃ː²³ˈdᶾi²lõ²wʌ̃¹ dĩ¹dĩː¹dʌ²hĩ³dõː³²ˈhɑ̃¹
It means- “and then the mother hen jumped all over my brother Ed as he
was getting up.” It’s from a story that my partner and I got our language
helper to give us. The words are not in that order though- Translated
literally it’s more like “and/ chicken/ mother/ and the/ jumped
everywhere/and as he was.” The little numbers are the tone- 1 being the
highest tone, and 3 being the lowest. the question mark-looking things are
glottal stops (a sound that we don’t recognize in our own speaking) and
the squigglies over the vowels are to indicate nasalization (another sound
quality that we don’t recognize in English).
Please be praying for our relationships down here. The relationship
between we Millers and the other missionaries here is one that could be
broken down quite quickly. There are lots of opportunities to call people
out and confront them in ways that are not Biblical. There are lots of
chances for us to be offended. Please be praying that we would not offend,
be quick to persue reconciliation, and not be easily offended. Please also
be praying for Jerry, my language helper. He is a pastor in church here. He is also studying to be a medicine man, and talks of
the power of the “Little People” and his power as a twin readily, and I
believe is not yet fully aware of the identity that believers have in
Christ.
One of the women in our class had a baby in the room two rooms down from
ours in a kiddie pool the night before last. That was exciting. It was a
boy, and everything went well. I think she will be out of the language
acquisition sessions for a couple of days.
Sarah and the kids are doing well. Sarah is starting to adjust more
completely and go out on walks with some new friends that she’s made here.
Heidi is as sassy as ever, and Andrew is a rule follower and protector of
his sister. He’s doing a great job.
I only get out to e-mail once a week when we go to town (about 11 miles),
so if you write back, I’ll probably be a little slow getting back to you.
Nothing personal, it’s just life here. I didn’t get out to town this
week, though we tried, so I’m e-mailing over dial-up. Remember those days?
Pretty slow, but it’ll do.
Thanks for praying for us, and loving us. It’s good to be working together.
-Abel
Prayer requests for the millers:
That we would be diligent to persue peace with our coworkers here.
That we would be consistent in discipling our kids.
That we would be faithful in building up the Church.
That we would be faithful discipling in love, keeping conflicts resolved.
That we would be a great example to our language helper as we continue to
learn the Cherokee language
That I would be patient with the computer as I work through the different
linguistic issues that arise.
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Tags: Cherokee, New Tribes Mission, NTM
08/16/11
Friends & Family,
I do not know the Cherokee language today. Tomorrow starts the intensive
language acquisition and analysis that is to last seven weeks, culminating
with a three week, roughly one hundred page thesis stating the findings of Abel
Miller in regards to the phonetic make-up (segments, stress, nasality and
tone), phonemic structure, and present a complete thesis (to the best of my understanding) and orthography.
This is all to be done while living in an area constantly with the same
people, eating with them, studying with them, sleeping near them, hearing
their kids cry at night, dealing with their quirky habits… In short, we 40
sinners have been put together in a relatively small area and have asked to
live and work together while sleeping little and being pressed beyond what
we are now able to bear mentally.
Please be praying for us. We are 12 linguists here for the purpose of
being equipped to present one day, Lord willing, a Bible, translated with
love and much sacrifice, to a people group that we do not now know. We do
know, however, that the enemy prowls around like a roaring lion seeking
those whom he may devour. Our ministries hang in the balance as we study
here. I am not naïve. I know that the team members here, and the
ministries that they have been entrusted to, are being tried and stretched
as I am while we go through this time.
I have purposed it in my heart to do my best to not offend, and quickly ask
forgiveness when I do offend. Please be praying for me in this regard. I
am a prideful person and will have a very difficult time doing this.
Being developed into a linguist is not the greatest thing. If we never end
up using this skill, developed over several hundred hours training, it’s
okay. The training as a teammate, as a father, as a husband, and as a
follower of the Way of Grace and Love, has been worth every minute of
struggle and heartache. I think that the greatest thing might be something
like this. I am being perfected through this time, and developing into
someone who looks a little more like Christ. My friend Clayton said
this-”If you walk with God, and you’re in His will, there might be pain,
you might feel alone, it might get scary, but through it all you will not
be dissappointed.”
Please also pray for safe travels for Sarah, her mother, and our kids as
they make their way down from Ohio on Wednesday. It’s tough being apart,
but she has had a great time at her family reunion, and the team and I have
done well to prepare the living quarters and facilities here in Oklahoma.
Thank you so much for loving us, and praying for us, and making us feel so
welcome whenever we are around you. Let us know how we can be praying for
you. Please.
-Abel
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The fish that fed 45- A 30 lb. flathead we caught on the trot line
Tags: Learning Cherokee, New Tribes Mission, NTM
06/28/11
We’ve moved away from the Missionary Training Center (MTC), having completed our classroom training there, and are in California right now.
We fly back to Ohio on Thursday to spend the month of July with the Church in Ohio. In August, I start the practical section of the Linguistics course in Oklahoma. (Of course Sarah and the kids will be there as well).
We will be doing a phonetic interpretation and a language analysis of the Cherokee language while in Oklahoma. The Cherokee language has been “done”
lots of times, but this experience will be a good practice run for what we may be doing in the future- giving tribal people a written language who have never had one before. We’re excited about the work because if they have a written language, they can have a Bible. If they have a Bible, and can read (we’ve been trained in Literacy also), they don’t have to take other people’s word for what is written. We are looking forward to being a part of seeing the unreached reached.
Our plans for the time being are to go back to Tanzania, East Africa, and work in a city (yet to be decided). We want to serve the Tanzanian Church that is already there (but which is as of yet a “juvenile church”).
We’d like to spend some time (possibly years) learning the language (I’m fluent, but certainly could always get better) and culture, so we can more effectively teach through the Firm Foundation curriculum and find parallells and examples in their culture to show how we (they) do the same things that the people in the Bible did to God. We want to work at building and maturing the “National” Church first, and then affirm and send out national missionaries to the tribal regions where they came from to plant and see a mature Church grown. Who understands the tribal cultures better than the “tribal people” themselves?
Maybe at some point in the future we’ll end up giving a people group a written language. Maybe we’ll be part of translating the Word of God into a new language. Maybe we’ll move out to a bush area and build relationships with people and see a Church planted there as well. Maybe we’ll see a people group embrace the Gospel, and step from living in literal fear of the darkness and the spirits that motivate the people to horrible deeds in hopes of appeasing the spirits, into the peace of God that says “Stop striving, My grace is sufficient.” Maybe. Maybe these things will happen. Regardless, we’ll go. We’ll be faithful to do this thing that we’ve been equipped for. Where God choses for fruit to grow we’ll rejoice. In the tough times, we’ll rejoice (though even in writing that, I know it’ll be tougher than I can even imagine right now).
We’d like to encourage you to do the same. Be living in the place where it’s uncomfortable. Be challenged. Be stretched. Sometimes it’ll hurt, but say “Yes.” to what the Lord is calling you to do wherever you are. You may not be called to worldwide missions, but I can guarantee that you are called to love your neighbor, and to be reaching out where you are. This is our calling as Christian. Live like there’s an eternity (because there is) and since there is an eternity, leave no doubt in the minds of the people in your sphere of influence that you are investing totally there.
I fail in this more times than I can count, but let’s work towards this “being an example” together. Let’s stop looking at the people around us, and trying to look more “churchy” and do “better things” than them. Let’s listen to the Lord as individuals, made for a purpose by Him to serve in the Body of Christ, and do what He has created us to do, worship Him in service as a response to all that we have been given. I’m not saying we’ll be perfect at it, and we will undoubtedly stumble about like new foals for a while, but let’s take a step forward. Your step will look different than mine, but it’ll be good. Let us know how you do. Write us. Let’s do this together.
- Abel for the Millers
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05/11/11
We have just finished an amazing time of training at New Tribes Mission. I worked through hundreds of languages over the last six months, and dealt with brain-busting issues that almost broke all of us who were studying them. Do I think that I’m ready to challenge any language in the world? No. God help us. Now, after being exposed to these languages, I realize more than ever that I don’t have what it takes to write a language out and translate the Bible. God help us. In our not-enoughness He uses us to glorify Himself. As with the young David facing Goliath, and Gideon’s men, He chooses to use the ridiculous to bring Himself glory. Here sits Abel Miller. He is barely functional communicating due to his near total lack of an attention span. Here’s a good idea: Let’s put him in a classroom with a computer for 12-20 hours a day for months and have him analyzing languages written in phonetic characters with tone noted (and inconsistent) to top it off. Ridiculous. Praise God that He uses us.
Praise Him that even in His disorder, there is perfect, and predictable order. Please talk to me about what I mean when you see me. I want to tell you, but I can’t explain it by writing it down. I’ll give you examples when you talk to me, but it stems from this… when the Lord confused the languages at Babel, He still kept them predictable in that the vowels are balanced front to back with equal distribution. The same goes for consonants, and consonant clusters! Umm… just ask me to explain it when we talk next. God’s fingerprints in languages. ALL languages. He is Awesome.
Sweet Heidi going to the playground
We’ll be in California along with the sweet little Heidi for the month of June. Please call us (805)835-5901. We want to encourage you and be encouraged by you. We’ll come over or have you over for lunch, dinner, snack, a cup of coffee, or a glass of water. We’ll go for hikes with you, or walks, or beach trips, or picnics, or visit with your community group… anything. We can just sit too (or stand). We know you are busy. We’ll work around your schedule.
Looking forward to the time we have together.
-abel for the millers
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03/16/11
3/16/11
We had a gnarly linguistic problem that took my team and I 19 hours yesterday… we started at 7am, broke for 45 mins for lunch, 45 mins for dinner, and worked through until 2:30 am today. It was very difficult, but we learned a lot about team dynamics, our individual thought processes and capabilities, and some more crazy things that languages can do.
We presented our findings this morning at 8am, and I think it went well… I don’t really remember much about the presentation, but I do understand the language now. The purpose of the presentation was to teach a non-linguistic incoming team member the language that we had been studying in a way that they would benefit and be able to apply rules to create words in the language, thus saving them time in learning the language (so they can speak MUCH sooner, and more like the tribal folks, and learn culture quicker… etc.)
Our family is doing well. It’s been very stretching to go through this program, but I know it is worth it. Sarah is the greatest supporter I have ever met. She constantly encourages, and is solid and consistent in her mothering of our kids.
Thank you for praying for us.
-Sarah got a clean bill of health from the cardiologist
-I got a clear MRI on my leg
-Andrew got over his Pneumonia
-Heidi ate a green magic marker, but it never even fazed her
I think I may have gotten my first 100% on my homework tonight… (Edit at a later date- it was an 83%-not even close)
Love you guys, thanks for praying for us, supporting us, and taking care of us.
-abel for the millers
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