“I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.” – Isaiah 43:19Thursday, 01 September 2011 16:11
I write to you from cool, lush, green Yaounde in Cameroon. I’m here to oversee the culmination of an eight-year project – the production of a New Testament in the language of Chad’s Kenga people.
I’ve not stopped praising the Lord since my arrival here in Cameroon. Despite dense traffic and ants on every surface, including my body, the temperatures here are perfect. Especially after the heat and dust of Chad’s dry season. The food is abundant and varied. We enjoy hot showers and the use of washing machines.
Thursday, 01 September 2011 15:41
I write this a short while before the world’s 196th nation, the Republic of South Sudan, is to be born. Everywhere we look there are preparations for this coming birth: Multi-storey buildings spring up, visitors flood into the country, signs and banners all around proclaim the new nation. Work crews go hard at it through the night to get projects finished.
When I first met Daniel Dinan, he was a shy and somewhat skinny 18-year-old. That was back in 1985. Having just graduated from high school, he’d returned to his village near Tekin in the mountains of Papua New Guinea.