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WOW! The best misso's letter I have ever got arrived today. The writer is a senior missionary in Milne Bay Province Papua New Guinea.

My reaction was : 

Such detail and very illuminating, very irritating, very frustrating and very funny.

One can do a whole TV show based on your letter. 

I read this wonderful email this week and I felt compelled to share it. Kenny McKee from Language Recordings UK wrote:

Today I picked up the buzzing handset, said “Global Recordings”, identified myself and heard a woman's voice, not known to me, but it had a familiar accent. It reminded me of the voice of a dear friend of mine who lives in Edinburgh. Understandable and very lilting, my caller identified herself as being from that part of Scotland.

Then she asked me for a bible-based recording of a language for outer MONGOLIA.

“Wow! Would you wait while I look up my list of Asian recordings?”.

I loved reading this report:

Dan Rulison wrote:

“ I personally have been greatly encouraged and blessed to be able to participate in the formation of our 'Every Nation' team here in Siberia. In contrast to the icy grip of white winter, our hearts are pulsing with love, passion and vision. God's heart itself is what we are reflecting and following for He has bled and indeed bleeds with hot love in His pursuit of the Small Peoples of the North, the fallen and down-trodden strangers in their own land here.

David Elliot writes from Weipa:

Greetings from “Outback Mission to Seafarers”. We are providing each ship that leaves from this port (often one ship each day) Bibles in the languages the seamen speak (generously subsidised), ENGLISH bibles (courtesy of the Gideons), Jesus Film DVDs, Global Recordings Network Australia Words of Life CDs (very generously priced), Bible studies, Christian booklets, plus an ample supply of magazines and secular books, Christian calendars, plus a newspaper, all in all filling a banana box.

Dalene Joubert writes from South Africa:

At a big seminar with local pastors, we had on display many Christian materials.We asked the pastor for their opinion on what would be most helpful to their churches and their evangelism efforts. We really hoped they would spend some time studying the materials and make a considered group decision.

Instead they looked at the books without even touching them, and then went straight to the big colorful GNM illustration books with tapes and texts. In two minutes they had all decided this was what they needed.

How about trying to do Global Recordings Network distribution in the ports? Well, here is a story from Ian Dennis of European Christian Mission.

On the phone he mentioned that he was short of CDs of Good News messages for sailors from Papua New Guinea. He particularly mentioned a ship's engineer from East New Britain. So GRN staff did their homework and came up with a Good News CD and booklet in the SULKA language and sent it off to him.

He writes:

We have this amazing agent in Benin! Here is his story of how he spent the first eighteen days of June.

Albert was invited to go to the Gun people by the Pentecost Church. On the first of June he showed the Jesus film and one hundred and fifty people confessed Christ. On the second day another film was shown. And an additional one hundred and twenty people came to Christ.

A "Man shall not live by bread alone" story.

The minister of a church in northern South Africa was running the gauntlet of the big animals in the Kruger Game Park, determined to get into Mozambique. His church was concerned for the welfare of the displaced people on the border who were in need of clothes, food, and medical supplies. As an afterthought he included some "Messenger" hand wind players and lots of different language gospel cassettes in the container.

Kim Knight told me this true story about his recording sojourn to the coasts in March 2007.

"We had a demanding job to do in the Solomon Islands. Not just recording! Travel was to be a large component of our time. Our plan – to fly to Mbambanikira, to proceed to Guadalcanal, then to move along the weather coast where the KOO, TOLO and VEURU MOLI language speakers live.

"Want know what really happened? How things panned out?

"Well, the flight to Mbambanikira was cancelled! We flew to Marau and went by dinghy to Avuavu.