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Vessel Name: Sweet Dreams
Vessel Make/Model: Irwin 54
Hailing Port: Hayden Bay, Portland, Oregon, USA
Crew: Jim, Gina Colton, & Niki
About: We are a family on a mission. Working with Wycliffe Bible Translators, we will sail across the Pacific Ocean to Papua New Guinea where we will serve as Boating Operations Managers. Please join us as God unfolds this wonderful adventure before us!
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Did you know that nearly one-third of the existing languages do not have a single verse of Scripture? That’s over 200 million people with NO opportunity to see scripture in their own heart language. In 1999, Wycliffe committed to the mission of seeing a Bible translation program started in [...]
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15 November 2015
18 August 2015 | 8 05.87'S:157 00.63'E, Near GIzo
16 August 2015 | 8 05.87'S:157 00.63'E, Near GIzo
10 August 2015 | 8 05.87'S:157 00.63'E, Kolombangara Island
02 August 2015 | Gizo, Solomon Islands
13 July 2015 | 8 05.87'S:157 00.63'E, Kolombangara Island
01 July 2015 | 9 05.67'S:160 08.65'E, Tulaghi Harbour
25 June 2015 | 8 54.173'S:161 04.421'E, Malaita Island
25 June 2015 | 8 54.173'S:161 04.421'E, Malaita Island
23 June 2015 | 8 54.173'S:161 04.421'E, Malaita Island
21 June 2015 | 8 54.173'S:161 04.421'E, Malaita Island
21 June 2015 | 8 54.173'S:161 04.421'E, Malaita Island
21 June 2015 | 8 54.173'S:161 04.421'E, Malaita Island
20 June 2015 | 8 54.173'S:161 04.421'E, Malaita Island
20 June 2015 | 8 54.173'S:161 04.421'E, Malaita Island
20 June 2015 | 8 54.173'S:161 04.421'E, Malaita Island
19 June 2015 | 8 54.173'S:161 04.421'E, Malaita Island
14 June 2015 | 09 01.05'S:160 07.52'E, Roderick Bay, Nggela Islands
12 June 2015 | 09 24.11'S:160 00.62'E, Honiara
02 June 2015 | 07 43.75'S:160 03.68'E, Heading to Honiara
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18 August 2015 | 8 05.87'S:157 00.63'E, Near GIzo

A Fish Story_Part 2

Now that you are hooked on this story, you need to know there is more. But first the answer to the popular question: Did you get the lure back?

16 August 2015 | 8 05.87'S:157 00.63'E, Near GIzo

A Fish Story

A huge rift in the family occurred last week. In other words it was real dissention.

Wildest Dreams

23 June 2015 | 8 54.173'S:161 04.421'E, Malaita Island
Gina
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be halfway around the world, on a sailboat, working for God, as a missionary.

But here I am - where every day is different than the one before it.

Three days ago, a visit to a neighboring village resulted in the longest and most active game of Simon-Says I have ever played...with over 40 kids. �'Simon says, clap your hands, simons says stop, simon says hop on one foot, simon says pat your head, simon says rub your tummy.�' It was so much fun, I could not stop. No kidding, I was actually sore the next day and had lost my voice.

Two days ago, I visited a neighboring village where a women�'s retreat was being held at the local church. Solomon women can sing and worship like no others I have yet seen. There isn�'t usually much music accompanying the singing but it isn�'t missed because they (including the young kids) simply throw their heads back and belt it out while clapping rings in the air. When it is time to pray, each person prays out lout at the same time and the voices and words flow together in a steady stream of praises and needs and then just as it begun, it lowers to a lull and then finishes. Later the same day, we swam with �'stucka pikininis�' (a LOT of kids). A constant stream of laughing children climbed the ladder onto the boat and jumped off and repeated a zillion times. Swimming, floating, singing silly songs, some of which I knew the words to was something I had never imagined I would be doing. And, I will never forget.

Yesterday, we sailed 10 nm south to a neighboring bay where David (our local translator friend) had arranged several meetings with the pastors and leaders in the area. The goal is to share information about the continuing translation project for the Old Testament and garner interest, financial support, and helpers. So today, we transported people from one village to another for the meeting.

Not sure what God has in store for tomorrow, but that is ok!

Please join me in prayers of thanksgiving for what God is doing here in the Solomon Islands, and that we get to participate in a small part of it!
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