Posts by Jack Popjes
What God did during those 24 years!
My wife Jo and I are revising, before we publish, our memoir covering 24 years of ministry in Brazil and what God did through us. Our God-given mission goal was…
Read MoreThe 30th Anniversary
On Aug. 10, 2020, my wife Jo and I celebrated a significant anniversary of a major life event in 1990. The location was a Canela village in Brazil. The occasion was the distribution of newly printed Bible portions, which Jo and I helped translate in partnership with the Canela people.
Read MoreFrom Depression to Joy
I had a firm conviction that God was in a hurry to save the Canelas and all the rest of the world and that therefore, I should be too.
Read MoreThe Canela Creation Story
After my wife Jo and I accepted the Canelas’ invitation 50 years ago to come and live with them in their jungle village in Brazil, we never heard a Canela pray. Why should they? Their Creator had abandoned them.
Read MoreAiming at a Moving Target
Nearly 60 years ago I read a book written by some Wycliffe Bible translators called Two-Thousand Tongues to Go. No one back in the late 1950s had any idea that there were…
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