From: D Troyer <duane_troyer@sil.org>
To: Keith Vanarsdol <pkeith@frontiernet.net>
Sent: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 23:40:37 GMT+00:00
Subject: Updated photo and newsletter for the church's website

Pastor Keith,

Greetings from sultry Waxhaw. I hope that you are enjoying the summer there in Moab. I wish we could afford the time to drive out for a visit this summer.

I have been meaning to send a new photo for your webmaster to put in for us. Its attached. If you could pass it on to whoever is maintaining the church website I would appreciate it. I can send one with lower resolution if that would work better. Just let me know.

Also I noticed the text linked to our photo is three years ago. I have included a copy of newsletters from the last 6 months. They are in pdf format. If you need something else let me know.

Thank you so much for including our newsletters on your website. It is encouraging to see this information getting out to inform people here in the US how God is moving to spread His Word amongst the Bibleless peoples of the world. Many people hear in our information saturated culture don't realize that there are still millions who have not heard the Gospel in a language they understand well. As the Scriptures say, they only see things very dimly and do not know who they really are. They are God's creation intended to be adopted as His children. Their divine destiny is to spend all their days glorifying the One who loves us beyond what we can ever imagine.

Your partnership means a great deal to us. Your prayer and financial support are strongly used by God to enable us to continue our ministry in vernacular media. Our new assignment will be here at our media headquarters at JAARS. I am looking forward to support our recording teams around the world. One of whom is a young Cameroonian man named Guy Mevele who I trained to do recordings.

"At the end of the recording process, I played the whole thing to the (language) team and to some people who came to listen (from the village). It was very interesting and at the same time encouraging to see how Audio Scripture can impact people. [from their reaction] you might even think it's the first time they hear about the Holy Scriptures but no just that this time it's different. "You just don't listen to the Scriptures, you are in the Scriptures" that's what one of the village guy told me at the end, and I know when the mastering is done and we start distributing the CD's, many people will join us in the Christian family."

It is amazing to see how the oral cultures that make up the Bibleless peoples respond most to oral and visual messages; Bible stories, songs and films like the Jesus Film. It is exciting to be apart of creating the recordings that God will use to transform their hearts and lives. I pray that God raises up more nationals like Guy to be trained as recordists. There is so much work to do and not enough technicians.

Please greet your wife and our church family there in Moab. May God's grace be yours.

God Bless,
Duane

PS: From July 5 to July 14th I will be traveling to central Mississippi to attend a family reunion. I will also have the opportunity to speak in two of my relative's churches there. Please pray that I would be able to reconnect with family, some of which I haven't seen in 20 years. Some of them are not following the Lord, I desire represent Christ while I am there. Also my desire call out the next generation of those who would be lead by God to become involved in giving His Word to the millions who have yet to here it clearly. Pray that I would be bold, like Paul, and that God would speak through me to each individual He desires to share in this ministry.

Click here for downloadable PDF of Troyer newsletter.