Joel and Gwen Hartman Just another weblog How many of you try to work yourself out of a job? That is certainly all part of tribal church planting. We as a missionary team among the Yanomami are planning to move out of the village in June-August of 2010, in what will be the beginning of seeing the Yanomami Church continue on their own.
We, Joel & Gwen Hartman, along with 1 other couple, will move to a town about 300 miles from the Yanomami village where we currently work. It takes the people 3-4 days to get to this town by boat. Here the Yanomami sell Brazil nuts, vines, bananas, and other products to get money for buying clothes, lines, hooks, and whatever else they need.
Around the same time as we move to this town, the Yanomamis plan to move to a new location a few hours downriver from where they are now; here, the game and fish are more plentiful and gardening land is fertile.
From our new location, we plan to continue working on the translation of the New Testament. We will be making trips upriver to where our Yanomami friends will be in order to visit them, encourage them, and continue teaching them. As we complete portions of the Scriptures we will get these, as well as other Bible study helps, to the Yanomami. There will also be many Scripture checking sessions to do both at our new location when the Yanomami come to see us or to trade and up at their new village when we visit them.
Please be in prayer for us as we strategize and work toward this phase of the seeing the Yanomami Church functioning autonomously.
