 | Sweat! |
| Communication. |
| Organizing travel. |
| Hiking miles through jungles surveying and interacting with tribal
people. |
| Rolling 55 gallon drums in and out of dugout canoes and up and down steep
river banks. |
| Organizing building materials. |
| Digging ditches for water drainage and sanitation. |
| Hauling lumber for a house or three one piece at time on jungle
trails. |
| Organizing work teams. |
| Pounding nails. |
| Communication. |
| Putting hot tin roofs on pole structures in blazing heat. |
| Pouring cement mixed and transported by hand. |
| Carrying water in buckets from the river for laundry, drinking and
sanitation. |
| Dragging canoes over or around logs in the river. |
| Learning language by beating your brain eight hours a day to get in 40
hours of language study each week while dripping sweat and battling bugs,
interruptions and a tongue rejecting foreign sounds. |
| Building vocabulary by disciplining yourself to memorize one more word or
to sit and study one more minute. |
| Understanding culture by eating what the tribesmen eat and being there
when tragedy strikes. |
| Communication. |
| Working through land disputes, threats, opposition and expectations. |
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| Evacuating a close family member for significant medical assistance. |
| Translating literacy material. |
| Teaching literacy. |
| Translating scripture. |
| Translating Bible lessons. |
| Printing. |
| Teaching Bible lessons. |
| Discipling new believers. |
| More than anything it takes the grace of God day by day! |
Multiple languagues
