Posts Tagged ‘Talaandig’

the first edition…

Posted by Lance and Laura Ostman on Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

the very first edition

Jason & Shirley were the first white people the Tala Andig of that remote region had ever seen. Some of those people had never even seen a logging truck.

The Birkins moved into the jungles during the mid 80′s and have labored there faithfully ever since. Today there is a strong church who now, for the very first time, will be able to open up and read a New Testament in their language.

Pictured here is the very first bound copy of the Tala Andig New Testament. As you know from our last update, Jason & Shirley spent several days with our partners Ron & Michelle Jennings, formatting the layout of the recently completed translation.

Lance has been busy printing copies on our big printer and now that a number of copies are printed, Higaunon believers are binding the New Testaments. It has been neat to work together as a team in seeing this job accomplished.

Please pray with us for the completion of this project. We have experienced quite a number of paper jams. Ron and Lance have looked for the cause and think it’s a combination of the quality of the paper we’re using and the humidity. One thing is for certain, the enemy of our souls does NOT want this printing to happen!

Please pray that we’ll get all copies printed and bound by the deadline. That’s a month away from now so there “should be” plenty of time.

Rejoice with us and the Tala Andig church as they receive their first completed copies of the New Testament in their language!

Thank you for your partnership in this ministry!

Secure in Christ’s love,

Lance & Laura for all of us here who are working together for the furtherance of Christ’s kingdom.

Back to work after a wonderful vacation!

Posted by Lance and Laura Ostman on Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Jason and Lance watching the printer as the 1st copy of the Tala-Andig New Testament is printed!

The Lord brought us safely back “home” to our village on Thursday.

We had a good time with our friends who were visiting from Hawaii, plus we got to surprise our coworkers, the Harts, when they got back into the country at the end of March!

We visited three islands that we’d never been to before and enjoyed the beauty of God’s creation anew. Thank you for praying for us over the past couple of weeks while we traveled.

Lance was able to finish up his part of the last check through the Higaunon New Testament.  Our coworker Ron wasn’t able to finish up his part yet, due to a previous commitment to help a fellow missionary who is here for a few days to get his own New Testament ready for print.

We are going to do the printing of Jason & Shirley Birkin’s Tala-Andig New Testament here with our big printer, God willing!  They want 100 copies initially. Upon printing the first copy this morning of the Tala-Andig New Testament Jason said, “It will be such a blessing to have the New Testament in one book for the Tala-Andig Church to study from!”

Jason & Shirley Birkin

Jason & Shirley Birkin

We would appreciate prayer for this project to go smoothly, as well as the finishing up of the Higaunon Scriptures so it can get sent to the printer soon. We appreciate your part in our lives and the ministry to the Higaunon people.

Have a blessed Resurrection Day!

Secure in Christ alone,

Laura & Lance