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TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH VOLUME 11 ISSUE 1 CONTENTS SUMMER 2016 INTRODUCTION

1 Introduction: To the Ends of the Earth Rev.7 Every Nation People Language is a publication of 2 Scripture Is Now Online in the Arctic JAARS, Inc., which exists to make TO THE A trainer travels to Moscow to train website translation and language builders, including a team from beyond the development possible, especially in the most remote and difficult ENDS OF Arctic Circle. places on earth. 6 Anchored In Something Greater We do that by enabling locally Before departing for service in Indonesia, a young appropriate and sustainable THE EARTH solutions in transportation, pilot pauses to reflect on his family’s exciting technology, media and training journey. for over 70 partners—including 10 God Can Always Use Us organizations—in the global Bible A couple who dreamed of serving overseas find translation movement. their missions in North Carolina. The magazine’s name points to Revelation 7:9-10—the time and GRACE MILLER, EDITOR 11 A Vision For The Future place where people of every The impact of a training course at JAARS continues language group will one day to multiply among the Quechua people of Peru. worship together before the throne of God. 14 Audio Scripture Speaks To The Heart Editorial Director As a young man records Bible stories for others, he Steve Biggerstaff realizes that the gift is for him, too. Editors My favorite passage of Scripture South Pacific, to Indonesia, to 16 Prayers Travel Carol Brinneman has always been Psalm 139. Peru, to south Asia, and even Grace Miller Age has not dimmed a prayer partner’s vision for If I rise on the wings of the dawn, to North Carolina. We tell you Scripture translation. Managing Editor about websites that help language Sarah Baer if I settle on the far side of the sea; groups stay connected. Aviation 17 Reflections: Praying Scripture Graphic Designer even there your hand will guide me, Barbara Alber service that speeds workers to 19 A Celebration in Vanuatu your right hand will hold me fast. isolated locations. Video and audio All Scripture quotations, This expresses to me—in recordings that make Scripture unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the New the language that speaks to my concepts clearer. The prayer and International Version, 2011. heart—that God will never forget financial support that make it about me or lose sight of me. I all happen. All of these efforts can trust God and his Word to are part of our mission to make be my guide, rule, support, and Bible translation and language General comfort. And that assurance has development possible, especially About the Cover: 800.890.0628 changed my life. in the most remote and difficult Samuel Saccaro contemplates the ancient citadel at Subscription Services Our vision at JAARS is to see places on earth. Machu Picchu high in the mountains overlooking Peru. 888.773.1178 people’s lives and communities As for myself, I write this Read about Samuel’s work among his Quechua people Fax transformed by experiencing from Malaysia, where my husband starting on page 11. 704.843.6385 God’s Word in their own is supporting translators near E-mail [email protected] language. This vision has taken us the South China Sea in an eight- all over the world, wherever our month office assignment. I find Website jaars.org translation partners ask for help, myself turning again and again Mailing so that God’s love can transform to Psalm 139. And because I have JAARS even those who live “on the far been blessed by the work of a PO Box 248 side of the sea.” long-ago translator, I can read Waxhaw NC 28173-0248 In this issue of Rev. 7, you the sacred text in the words that can travel with us from Moscow speak peace to me. and points farther north, to the

http://bit.ly/JAARSFacebookpage REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 1 Even at the ends of the earth, they have Starbucks and Dunkin’ SCRIPTURE Donuts! Peter with workshop IS NOW participants Ayana and Maxim. ONLINE IN THE ARCTIC

PETER NASH

Among nomadic groups above because our training team some- Thailand, the Democratic Republic the Arctic Circle, books are not times works in areas where read- of Congo, Cameroon, and several common. Computers are not ing, hearing, and distributing the locations in Asia that we can’t common either. But mobile Bible can be risky, I prefer to use a name. In the last two years our phones with Internet access are pseudonym. [MARINA] team has held training workshops very common. The Nenets, with a Our team launched our first in 27 towns. population of about 22,500, live in website in 2010, and this spring we WANTED TO We end up with many small the Arctic in northern Russia. launched website number 450 with websites, each devoted to a In February 2016 their first-ever no promotion needed. Word of KNOW IF WE particular language, community, Scripture website was launched— mouth works, and we are very busy. and culture. A workshop in Scripture videos, Scripture record- I guess the various language and WOULD BE February took me and my team ings, music, Scripture text readable community teams like us! For sure, to Moscow, where we helped online—with everything in their they like what we have to offer. ABLE TO HELP. people from, literally, the end of language. The language they have Our goal is to help language the earth—the northern end—to heard and understood from birth— community teams create websites, SHE WAS VERY share Scripture. not a nearby dialect, not a national so that as many people as possible EXCITED AND business language, but theirs. The can have access to God’s Word A REQUEST FROM words that speak to their hearts. in as many ways as possible in WANTED TO MOSCOW their own language. We go to SCRIPTURE WEBSITES their cities and train them to build MOVE, MOVE, Marina oversees Scripture trans- IN HEART LANGUAGES and support their own Scripture lation teams in Russia. Several of websites. In the last 12 months, we MOVE! those teams had tried to create I direct training for Internet Pub- have held training workshops in websites and failed. She wanted to lishing Services (IPS). That’s not Papua Indonesia, the Philippines, know if we would be able to help. the real name of the agency, but Mexico, Mali, Nigeria, Russia, She was very excited and wanted

2 REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 3 to move, move, move! Emails went hear a sermon. Ever. He prayed. We back and forth, sometimes several prayed for him. MAXIM WENT a day. When will we have the work- Maxim went back to his home, shop? Where will we hold it? How knowing that he needed to find a BACK TO HIS many staff from IPS are needed for church and read God’s Word. He HOME, KNOWING the workshop? How long will it last? can do that on the website that he How will we pay for it all? just helped create. Pretty cool, huh? THAT HE NEEDED BUILDING THE WORKSHOP SUCCESS TO FIND A WEBSITES When we were done with the work- CHURCH AND The Moscow workshop for 21 shop, there was one common com- students started on a Tuesday Screen capture of the newly created plaint: the students wished they had READ GOD’S and kept going for two weeks. Yakut website’s home page. brought more of their pre-translat- We started most days at 8:30 ed media with them. They did not WORD. with an hour and a half for lunch, websites—what is good; what is believe me that we would have the breaking for supper at 5:30 or so. bad. Then we registered them. On websites ready for launch by the Often people would be back in the second Friday, we launched 13 end of the second week. But we did the training room after supper to of the 14 websites that we started! it. About 90 percent of websites continue working. Sahay is from Yakutsk, Russia. started at a workshop are launched We talked about why they For him it is hot here in Moscow at at the end of it. should have a website, what it 34 degrees F. The actual tempera- We emphasized to the new should look like, how to create it, ture at his home, as we are working Website Managers that the launch how to maintain it. We talked about in Moscow, is minus 42 degrees F. of their websites is a significant the kind of media they can use and This time of the year they have milestone, but it is not a finish line. how it works on a mobile device. three hours of sunlight. Just three. They need to add to and update the We talked about how copyright He said that as a child he played website over the weeks and months law affects them and their website. soccer in temperatures as low as to come. And they will. I take volumes of international minus 40. Inconceivable. Or, stated copyright law and reduce it to two another way, “непостижимый.” sentences. Just two. It works. He is here working on the Yakut Peter Nash has served in Scripture- Maxim (left) and Sahay in Moscow They added files, wrote text, language. His language. based media work since 2001. building a website for their language put in pictures. We discussed the It turns out Maxim had not group, the Yakut. correct domain names for their planned on coming to the work- shop at all. The person who had originally planned to attend got sick, so they asked Maxim to go. He worked diligently alongside Marina, the organizer of the Moscow workshop, had one question that many Sahay. By the end of the workshop people ask: How does Internet Publishing Services do it? How do we fund all the Yakut website, which you can the travel, the training expenses, the operating expenses, and provide trainers? see at www.SakhaBible.com, was JAARS has budgeted about $37,500 this year to help support this ongoing ready to launch. initiative in languages where Scripture has already been translated but local Maxim came even though conditions make it difficult for people to access or publicly display print copies he was not a Christian. During of God’s Word. All over the world, people need Scripture. These websites, the two weeks he was here, five accessible by mobile devices or in Internet cafes, are rapidly becoming the people “shared the love of Christ source for people to find text, audio, or video Scripture, reaching their hearts with me,” he said in Yakut. On and binding them to their communities whether they are at home or far away. Sunday, Maxim, Ayana, and I went In the second half of 2016, IPS plans to hold workshops in South Asia, the St. Basil’s Cathedral to church together. It was his first Philippines, Turkey, Nepal, and a few locations we can’t name. To support this Red Square, Moscow opportunity to worship God and project, go to jaars.org/4913 or use the response card in this issue of Rev. 7.

4 REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 5 grocery stores, restaurants, and even a swimming pool! MOST OF THE ANCHORED My typical Saturday might have included a hike to a nearby water- BOYS MY AGE IN fall, a bicycle ride with my Korean DREAMED OF classmate, a day at the beach, or SOMETHING catching up on schoolwork. Rach- BECOMING elle’s normal afternoon might have GREATER included going to the garden with a MISSIONARY few village women, joining a hunting party with Dad, helping Mom in the PILOTS. WE clinic, swimming in the river at the end of a sweaty, 100-degree day, or, WOULD BUILD of course, doing chores. Most of the boys my age AIRPLANES, LUKE SJOBLOM dreamed of becoming missionary DRAW pilots. We would build airplanes, draw airplanes, and “talk shop.” AIRPLANES, AND But now I’m one of only three of My wife’s grandparents are retiring those boys involved in aviation. “TALK SHOP.” from a lifetime of missions, which God sustained my childhood desire began in 1959 in Papua, Indonesia, to fly small planes, but he also built BUT NOW I’M among the Dani people. They were into me the understanding that among the first missionaries to airplanes are only tools in a much ONE OF ONLY learn the Dani language and were bigger picture. THREE OF THOSE involved in pioneer church planting. Now I am finishing aviation Later, their son returned to Papua orientation at JAARS, and Rachelle BOYS INVOLVED with his wife and kids, who included and I are making plans to take our my wife, Rachelle. Today, the Dani own children to Papua Indonesia. IN AVIATION. I GREW UP IN church is growing and thriving, Msending out evangelists of its own A BUSTLING, to other parts of the island. Luke (left) practices the skills he will As for me, my dad’s parents need in Indonesia. ASIAN-INFUSED and grandparents were mission- CITY…WITH aries in East Asia. My mom’s parents ministered in Central LUXURIES SUCH Africa. In 1991 my mom and dad moved from Texas to Papua AS GROCERY Indonesia, where Dad maintained the aircraft used to support STORES, missionaries there. I often mention with a wink RESTAURANTS, that Rachelle is a real missionary kid because she and her two siblings AND EVEN A grew up in the rainforest, living among inquisitive Papuans. By SWIMMING POOL! contrast, I grew up in a bustling, Asian-infused city next to a regional airport, with luxuries such as

6 REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 7 Photo courtesy of Jacob Geyman

Retired missions pilot Doug Deming with Silas, the young son of a pilot who recently completed Pre-Field Orientation.

In the last few years, we’ve asked We are now in the final stage now, starting to earn substantial ourselves some hard questions. Are WHERE IS MY of preparation for our departure salaries, steadily gaining tenure we entering international ministry HEART? MY to Indonesia, where we will be in and seniority. We are beginning just because of our missionary language training for a few months. to realize what we are forgoing in heritage? Just because it’s IDENTITY? By the time we begin our assign- order to work in support of Bible comfortable? Where is my heart? ment in Papua, eight years will have translation. But it is worth the My identity? Is it in flying airplanes? WHEN GOD passed since we began this prepa- sacrifice. God continues to fill us When God decides I need to give ration! It’s interesting watching with excitement for the opportu- up flying, or to give up overseas DECIDES I our college peers, many of whom nity to work and raise our family on work, will we be lost? Or are we are in their second or third jobs the mission field. anchored in something greater? NEED TO GIVE We each felt God’s call to international ministry in subtle UP FLYING, OR A Missions at the Airport (MATA) event is an exciting day full of hands- ways. But, honestly, God’s voice has on activities that allow you and your family to experience some of the been pretty quiet on the matter. TO GIVE UP ways JAARS supports translation work—including a ride in an airplane or We usually hear only a soft word of OVERSEAS helicopter. For more information, including a calendar of this year’s locations confirmation and peace as we press and dates, go to jaars.org/events/missions-at-the-airport. on in our journey. For instance, I WORK, WILL WE Mountain Week is the culmination of a 3 1/2-month pre-field orientation received funding so I could finish class designed to prepare pilots and mechanics for the rugged conditions flight training with a manageable BE LOST? they will face as they support translation work in remote locations, difficult debt load. We had a large number terrain, and sometimes dangerous environments. Flight services—and of friends and family jump on our trained pilots like Luke Sjoblom—make it possible for translation teams to partnership team in support of our go to the ends of the earth to bring Scripture to people groups who have decision to join Wycliffe in 2015. And never heard it before. Rachelle, who is a Canadian citizen, To see a video of Luke’s training flights over the mountains, go to finally received her green card after https://vimeo.com/170057751. To add your support for aviation training, go to a long delay, just in time for our jaars.org/A200, or use the response card at the back of this issue of Rev. 7. scheduled training in Florida.

8 REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 REREV.V. 7 | SUMMER 2016 9 GOD CAN A VISION ALWAYS FOR THE USE US FUTURE

BY LARRY AND TERRY GRACE MILLER BLACKWELL, AS TOLD TO GRACE MILLER

“God has a purpose for each of us, also helped others in the process A media training class held on no matter what our age or abilities,” of becoming volunteers, and today the JAARS campus in 1996 has declares Terry Blackwell. she is part of a team that ministers had far-reaching significance—an For five years, Larry and Terry to the needs of retired missionaries. impact that continues to multiply Blackwell had been asking God how Larry joined the Partnership in Peru. they could serve him. Then a friend Ministries team and describes his Al Shannon and his wife invited them to JAARS Day. After work as “all joy.” He calls, writes and Barbara had been serving in Peru touring the center they drove the even visits JAARS financial partners for 33 years, helping to coordinate 100 miles home convinced that this to thank them for their gifts, and among the was where God was calling them to ask them about their own needs Quechua language groups, when to go. They had no idea how it was and pray with them. “Sometimes GOD HAS Al returned to North Carolina financially possible for them to people call me to ask where their Ato learn how to turn the printed retire from their jobs and move to gifts can be directed,” he says, “and INSPIRED translations into audio and visual Waxhaw, N.C., nor how, at the ages I am excited to share with them media that would speak God’s of 67 and 60, they could be useful about a project that I know will be SUCCEEDING Word to a culture that does not at JAARS. close to their hearts.” Larry added, read. In a previous issue of Rev. 7, “I have made many good friends in GENERATIONS Al told the story of how he began I KNOW NOW the 15 years I have been reaching out WITH A VISION training Quechua lay workers to to our financial partners.” replicate his work and how, in THAT ALL OF US Originally, Larry and Terry had TO SEE ALL OF turn, God has inspired succeeding dreamed of joining Wycliffe Bible generations with a vision to see ARE CALLED TO Translators overseas, and were PERU’S NEW all of Peru’s New Testaments disappointed when that door was recorded and available in a digital MISSIONS. closed. “But I know now that all of TESTAMENTS audio format. us are called to missions,” Larry Today, Runa Simi* leaders travel But God did make a way. Terry says. “We are missionaries in North RECORDED AND many miles to conduct work- began leading tours of the JAARS Carolina, and Terry and I have no shops, training more promoters campus, sharing with visitors her regrets about answering God’s call AVAILABLE. to produce radio programs in own testimony as well as the story to JAARS.” To learn more or volun- Quechua and to use dramatized of Wycliffe and JAARS. She has teer, go to jaars.org/volunteer. audio recordings of the New

10 REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 11 and only a few old people showed created engaging resources, such as up in response to our invitation,” songs, dramas, meditations, ques- Samuel said. “But when they saw tions, and answers. Representatives the video of Luke being shown in from two area radio stations eagerly their language, they ran out crying carried away ready-to-broadcast and called the whole town to come segments. Future workshops are and see Jesus.” being planned to train additional Dany Parado is a Runa Simi media producers in other languages leader who was also trained by Al. in the area that can be broadcast by He recently traveled to the remote these radio stations. village of Pichanaki, located in the “There are so many testimonies foothills of the Andes Mountains, that I can’t write them all down,” to hold a workshop and show Samuel concluded, “but it makes Christians there how God can me want to spend the rest of my speak to their people through radio life taking the gospel to where they programs. To make God’s Word in have never heard.” Quechua easy to understand, they Dany Parado (left) trains a young Quechua man in recording principles.

*Runa Simi evangelizes, disciples, and trains Quechuan believers, as well as Testament, recorded in local ministering in medical, literacy, youth, and women’s services. The Quechua dialects, to tell the Good News to WHEN THEY are the largest ethnic group in Peru, with over 10 million speakers, with many their people. dialects, of which the two primary ones are Ayacucho and Cuzco. Both the Samuel Saccsara, who learned SAW THE VIDEO Ayacucho and Cuzco have been completed for a number of years now his media skills from Al fifteen and 15 more dialects have New Testaments and most of the Old Testament. years ago, recently reported on OF LUKE BEING the progress made through the SHOWN IN THEIR use of audio and video recordings. “This past year we trained and LANGUAGE, equipped 24 new promoters with digital display units and the videos THEY RAN OUT of Luke and Genesis in Quechua,” he says. “Over 2,500 children and CRYING AND adults have been taught the Scrip- tures through seeing such videos. CALLED THE Many now want to learn to read the Bible to know more about God WHOLE TOWN for themselves. In some communi- ties the new believers have started TO COME AND to form Bible studies and gather together to pray.” SEE JESUS. One Runa Simi promoter stated, “When you show a video in a church, it fills up with people. One old man told me in tears that he was blind, but he could hear the Word of God, and it touched his heart.” Jaime Almeida (second from left) has a dream to see all of Peru’s “In the community of Bajo translated Scripture made available Loreto, it was pouring down rain in audio form.

12 REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 13 When the 22-year-old returned are not familiar with the Bible,” he home to his job in his brother’s explains.“Bible stories in chronolog- AUDIO snack shop, he found no church ical order, in our dialect, are of great or Christian fellowship nearby. But help. Since the people are an oral SCRIPTURE Dante’s new friends report that community, the [audio] stories are they are planning to send some highly appreciated. SPEAKS TO fellow believers to that village to “We are getting positive start a congregation. responses,” Jarendi adds. “People THE HEART “Jarendi,” who worked with listen to these recordings in their Dante in the studio, says that audio small group fellowships with great recordings in local dialects are interest.” already having an impact in his And now Dante can be part of community. “Even though my village that fellowship too. has several hundred believers, they GRACE MILLER Numerous gospel songs were recorded and distributed on CDs.

"This is amazing!” said Dante. “I am even before they were recorded. hearing such stories for the first When he studied his script, time. I believe they are for me, too." Dante found that the printed “Dante’s” parents named him words were talking to him. As for a Hindu god, and Dante grew the recording work progressed, up in a village that rejected Jesus Dante became curious—then and his message of salvation. But eager—to know more about when Christians in a studio in that Jesus, finally asking Jesus into Asian region needed help, they his life once he understood the found Dante. message in his heart language. The team was ready to record Bible stories in the dialect of Dante’s people, but in this mostly AS THE non-reading community, they lacked speakers who could narrate RECORDING from the script. Dante was a good reader with a pleasant voice, so WORK he was hired for a nominal fee PROGRESSED, to fill several roles in the Open Bible recordings. The Open Bible DANTE BECAME In this part of Asia, believers cannot openly carry Bibles or gather to worship is a series of 50 stories spanning God. And many cultures in this region do not read, so printed materials may Creation to the anticipated second CURIOUS—THEN not be helpful. But audio forms of Scripture—Bible stories, Scripture readings, coming of Christ. The audio record- and even gospel songs in the popular local style—are attracting growing ings introduce Scripture to an oral EAGER—TO numbers of listeners. culture where the Bible is available JAARS is helping our Scripture translation and engagement partner only in the national language, which KNOW MORE in that region by funding operating costs for the recording studio, as well is not the dialect this community as providing additional equipment so that more recording projects can be understands easily. ABOUT JESUS. accommodated. But the Scripture stories To add your support, and learn more about how this recording studio began to reach Dante’s heart is effectively bringing the word of God to listeners who have never heard it before, go to jaars.org/8419.

14 REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 15 PRAYERS REFLECTIONS TRAVEL PRAYING SCRIPTURE

GENE HYLAND CROSBY WOODY McLENDON, PRESIDENT

Photo by Joanna Bourne

Praying Scripture is an awesome In recent months, God is using way I’ve learned to enter into the the second part of that verse to presence of our Heavenly Father. challenge my prayers and blow out I am 89 years old, and my husband in maintenance at JAARS until we These Holy Spirit inspired words not some more walls “according to his will be 90 in December. But we moved to Florida last year. only touch my heart, they blow out power that is at work within us.” still travel to the ends of the Howard and I are still active the walls of how I see God and my earth every day by praying for and able to drive and travel. But relationship with him in Jesus Christ. I’VE WATCHED translators, literacy workers, now we serve best by praying. One of my favorite prayer teachers, support staff, and the We pray for translation work in passages in recent years is Ephe- GOD…BRING aviation department at JAARS. Guatemala, Togo, Indonesia, the sians 3:20-21. My first husband, Robert Philippines, and France. I also pray AMAZING Hyland, and I retired in 1982 and particularly for health, strength, “Now to him who is able to do joined Wycliffe Bible Translators as and protection for everyone immeasurably more than all we ask PEOPLE TO short-term assistants. We served in working in PNG. I feel drawn to this or imagine, according to his power Papua New Guinea (PNG), Guate- country with over 800 languages that is at work within us, to him be THE MINISTRY. I glory in the church and in Christ mala, and Togo. We spent our time and to the translation work there. between assignments working at God has blessed us abundantly Jesus throughout all generations, When I pray and ask God to do JAARS, Bob in maintenance and I in over the years, and we want to for ever and ever! Amen.” more than I can imagine, I’m also housekeeping. Bob passed away in share that blessing with those who Often as I reflect on the inviting him to use me. God doesn’t 2004, and five years later I married have not yet heard his Word in challenges or opportunities facing choose to show his power inde- Howard Crosby, a long-time Wycliffe their own language. JAARS, I pray something like this: pendently. Somehow and for some Associates volunteer. He worked “Jesus, I can imagine some really purpose I still don’t understand, amazing things happening here in God accomplishes his purposes this situation. Do more so that you through his power at work in us. get all the glory and we can’t take Who are we that God would We need more faithful partners like Gene and Howard Crosby, who will join us any credit.” use us? Nothing really. Cracked in seeking God’s wisdom, grace, and favor in all our undertakings. Here’s how I’ve watched God answer pots. Messed up people. And yet you can pray more specifically: and bring amazing people to the the God of the universe loves us § Subscribe to Prayerline, our bimonthly newsletter with a prayer focus for ministry, open doors in new coun- so much that he wants to do more each day of the year. You can receive it either in print or by email. Sign up tries where JAARS’ help is needed than we can ask or imagine and use at jaars.org/pray or use the response card in this issue. to make Bible translation possible, us to do it. § Get updates sent to your email inbox by subscribing at jaars.org/updates and provide answers to problems Now that’s a miracle! or via the response card in this issue. that we had no idea how to solve.

16 REV. 7 | SUMMER 2016 RE V. 7 | SUMMER 2016 17 for praying, giving, and telling others THANK YOU about JAARS and Bible translation. Please send me (check all that apply): o Partner Express A bimonthly newsletter update on JAARS projects o print edition o email edition o Prayerline A bimonthly prayer calendar o print edition o email edition o Rev. 7 A magazine highlighting JAARS’ role in Bible translation o print edition o email edition Please contact me with information about: Serving JAARS as a: o Prayer partner o Advocate o Advisor o Co-laborer o Including JAARS in my will, or giving non-cash assets o Praying for a people group through Wycliffe’s Bibleless People’s Prayer Project Please accept my gift to support the following needs: PROJECT ID PROJECT TITLE AMOUNT 4913 Scripture Websites in Heart Languages A200 Aviation Training CORE JAARS Core Mission Fund A CELEBRATION JWM Where Needed Most IN VANUATU TOTAL

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OUR NEW DESIGN

For those of you who are regular important information could be readers of Rev.7, this issue marks a called out and absorbed quickly transition. At the risk of stating the … in short, where the design truly obvious, here’s what’s changed: supported the message and the Branding. JAARS has worked stories we want to share. hard the last few years to align Communications. Our mission our mission and the solutions we world, like your personal world, provide with the evolving needs tends to revolve around certain of Bible translation partners—old themes that are fairly constant yet and new—around the world. with new and challenging twists all We wanted a simple way to along the way. So, we’re rethinking Fcommunicate that we’re looking how we share information with forward, not back. And we wanted you to more closely match our to remind ourselves and our world … giving you a better partners—including you—that glimpse into what God is doing the world’s most remote and around the world, through JAARS, difficult locations are where we’re with your help! particularly called to serve. Design. We wanted a publication that was easier to read, where compelling photographs were possible and where