by Seth Callahan | Jan 27, 2017 | Past Ministry
As many of you know, our village was constructed a few years ago for the sole purpose of hearing God’s Talk. Every man, woman, and child here has moved a day’s journey into the jungle, leaving behind their access to government schooling, a medical clinic, and easier...
by Seth Callahan | Jan 19, 2017 | Missionary Family
I’ll be honest, I’m a little tubel* concerning what I should be writing about right now. You see, this last weekend I was sick, which always spurs my creative muse into action.** I also created my very first piece of pottery, which (though it is small, irregularly...
by Seth Callahan | Jan 6, 2017 | Missionary Family, Past Ministry
There are a few pros and cons to living in a remote jungle village. Yes, I know there are pros and cons in any given circumstance in life, and usually it’s more an issue of our perspective of a situation that determines its “pro” or “con” status more than the actual...
by Seth Callahan | Dec 16, 2016 | Past Ministry
As our teaching time draws nearer,* we have been looking for ways to help our Iski friends and neighbors engage with, and process, new information. If this seems like an inconsequential thing to you, that’s because we often take for granted the EXORBITANT amount of...
by Seth Callahan | Nov 24, 2016 | Jungle Garden, Missionary Family
As some of you may already know, I was bitten by the gardening bug last spring.* I’ve never really done any gardening before, so this was a bit of a leap for me, but it was bound to happen eventually. Between hardly ever having fresh produce in the house, being...
by Seth Callahan | Oct 26, 2016 | Missionary Family, Past Ministry
I think I mentioned a while back in a newsletter that we had a few big events coming up, and that we were jittery with anticipation as those momentous days approached. Well, those days have come and gone, and all those things happened. (YAY!) As is often the case...
by Seth Callahan | Sep 3, 2016 | Past Ministry, Unreached People Groups
The other day, we had a bit of a shindig in our village, celebrating the graduation of our first Iski literacy class. It was a fun time. The people did mini-dramas depicting different Iski historical moments, they had singing groups perform songs they had written...
by Seth Callahan | Sep 2, 2016 | Past Ministry
You may not have read about it in the paper, or heard about it on the evening news, but history was made recently: The first-ever Iski literacy class just graduated its first students! That’s right, for the first time in HUMAN HISTORY, a mixed group of Iski men,...
by Seth Callahan | Aug 4, 2016 | Jungle Garden, Missionary Family
Often, I’m left feeling like the jungle’s biggest nincompoop. Like today, for instance, when I was walking through the bush behind one of my Iski friends. I miss-stepped and ended up in swamp muck up to my belt loops, while my barefooted friend and his 4-year old kid...
