Comments on: Bibles to Holuwan: A Light For their Path

By: Jim and Ruth Charlesworth

Jim and Ruth Charlesworth — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 06:52:52 +0000

Thanks for the story, it brings back precious memories. As an MAF Australian pilot family, we were to fill the gap left by the loss of Menno Voth. Over 50 years ago, I landed at Holuwan with a contingent of Indonesian police to quell a riot. Stan Dale had stayed with us in Wewak, PNG following an earlier hospitalisation.
Just so wonderful to hear of fulfilment of bible translation by missionaries over the ensuing years

By: Mabel Valech

Mabel Valech — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:36:09 +0000

I have had the privilege of knowing Paul Newman as a young man, his wife and daughter. His love for the Yali never faded.
I have lost contact with him, since he moved away after his wife died. He and his wife and daughter did visit the village, but were unable to stay.

By: Pat Peaster

Pat Peaster — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 09:42:55 +0000

What a great encouragement it is for me to know this is going on has i trudge through life. So many terrible things going on tearing down people around me in the usa. So encouraging to hear the gospel making a difference

By: Andrew Cooper

Andrew Cooper — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 15:07:30 +0000

My goodness! What tremendous sacrifice is required to enlighten & save lost people living under the clouds of superstition. Some of the originals never got to see it & experience the joy while the later ones now live in the joy & share their salvation.
They now know that their saviour Jesus had to be sacrificed for us too. What a beautiful story of transformation & work for Christ & the wonder of it all in His Glorious Name.
God is SO loving. Thank you.

By: Bill Markle

Bill Markle — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 10:29:55 +0000

This complete and miraculous story is told in the book Lords of the Earth, by Don Richardson.

By: Don Peter

Don Peter — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 05:26:03 +0000

Thank you for sharing this story of the triumph of the Gospel. I read “lords of the Earth” years ago and it is tremendous to hear some of the rest of the story!

By: Joseph A Harlow

Joseph A Harlow — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 03:27:29 +0000

Thanks MAF for all you do and will continue to do. My prayers go out to you and your beautiful works for the Haluwan community. Thanks again for all you do!!

By: Godfrey Sim

Godfrey Sim — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:56:33 +0000

This story and the many others connected to it continue to inspire missional action and those in pioneering contexts. In June this year (2022) I was sharing Stan Dale’s story (again) with the Eritei folks (near Lumi on the east side of the border in Papua New Guinea.) Stan and Pat Dale had opened up the work there in 1951 before moving to “West Irian” to work amongst the Yali. Two years before Stan was killed he’d been wounded by the same Yali people with about 6 arrows. He was recovering in the Wewak hospital when my Dad (Walter Sim) took me as an 8 year old to see him and tell me this was the man who had started the work amongst the Wape people who I now called family and where I am at ‘home’. So today the churches which have been planted from the Eritei church are celebrating 72 years after Stan and Pat Dale’s arrival, and they continue to thank God for his courage and passion for the the sake of the Gospel. I have just retired from MAF Papua New Guinea and have been privileged to see profound transformation of communities the result of MAF’s partnership with pioneer mission enterprise. During this time it was a moving privilege for me to meet one of the GIDI leaders who shared with me that he is the son of one of those warriors who had killed Stan and Phil with “many arrows”. We cried together, expressing a mix of emotions, as we honoured the bond of love that connected us as God’s children first and foremost.

By: Al Nordquist

Al Nordquist — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 22:54:12 +0000

The above report gives us the confidence to know the work to establish contact and the building of an airstrip is never in vain and God’s Word will never be in vain.

By: :)

:) — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 01:48:11 +0000

What a truly inspiring story! Thank you MAF for all you do and will continue to do.