Bible-based Videos

Allen and Neisha Klaski, serving with Wycliffe Associates, left this morning for Tanna Island for 2 weeks to bring Bible-based videos to about 10 villages. They were invited by Ken and Mendy Nehrbass, translators in the Southwest Tanna language. Some of the videos are in Bislama, the trade language, and some are in Southwest Tanna. They will walk from village to village, eat and sleep with a host family and show the videos to each village. Some Ni-Vanuatu men from Southwest Tanna will go along with them to translate for them and show them the way. Hopefully there will be others that go along to help carry all the cargo! Their home is in Harbor Beach, MI and their Pastor and his wife were our hosts at Barnabas International's Elim Retreat that we attended a few years ago. Small world! They left 6 kids behind with Grandma and Grandpa and are here for almost 3 weeks. They will come back before we leave so I'll be able to let you know how things went.

We knew that Ken Nehrbass has been experiencing pain in his kidneys due to a kidney infection but he has experienced more pain and it could be a kidney stone. He had a lot of pain last night. Another translator, Greg Carlson, the advisor that Morris will be working with, will meet the Nehrbasses at the airport and help them get set up to leave on their bush walk. They'd appreciate prayer for healing for Ken and their village video tour. Ken was in the middle of a translation consultant check when he got sick but managed to persevere to get it finished. Alan Canavan, the consultant, is now here with us but will be doing a consultant check for another team next week. We just got word that that translator is now sick. Much prayer is needed.

We did go snorkeling with Alan and Neisha before they left. What a beautiful underwater world God created for us to enjoy! We've snorkeled in PNG and Austrailia but this was the best experience. The fish were different and incredibly beautiful. I saw blues starfish that were 12" across and fish came right up to our faces in hopes of being fed.

We also took a hike up to waterfall and could swim underneath it and in other pools of water. Quite beautiful!