Ang Among Kinabuhi sa Pilipinas
(Our life in the Philippines)
Meeting with members of a language-group in our province who were visiting our city.
Local festivities... love the colors!
Meeting with members of a language-group in our province who were visiting our city.
Language teacher fellowship meal together with our head language consultant.
Speaking and praying at a "house blessing" event for one of Natasha's language helpers and praying for their son for his birthday.
Phase 1 language kickoff for the new families that began language in January, 2024.
One role we have now is observing language sessions of newer families and giving feedback for continued growth in language and culture.
Language teacher fellowship dinner - where we hear what challenges they're facing, blessings they're experiencing, and how we can help as program managers.
Language evaluation for our coworkers - visiting our pastor/city official at his office.
Final language evaluation for our coworkers - they did awesome. Praise the Lord!
Language evaluation "outing" portion - visiting a new wholesale vegetable market initiative.
Travis doing Bible teaching (topic: the sufficiency of Jesus' sacrifice and no longer being under the law as believers in Jesus) as a guest speaker at a local church.
Visiting our coworker's Bible teaching ministry at a local elementary school.
Visiting a nature preserve when we were new to the Philippines (2022).
Kaamulan culture festival - a gathering of the 7 language groups of the province - Natasha with a bunch of young people.
A local farm... picturesque!
The church where we are members :)
Play time in the ocean after our morning culture and language acquisition seminar (2023).
Holding my language helper's baby boy.
Church anniversary
Our coworkers hosting a anniversary party to share of God's faithfulness in their marriage with friends and neighbors. We were invited as long as we only spoke Bisaya with people haha!
Natasha and the girls flying into a village. The helicopter used to always put Lily to sleep ha!
Visiting the local monastery with my language helper (2023).
Admitted to the hospital for a few days because of intestinal amoebas :-/
Accidentally twinning with our pastor for jail ministry.
Special trip to another city to get McDonalds after the jail ministry.
Jail ministry with coworker and friends from church.
Eleanor was so excited to be invited into the kitchen of a local restaurant to make her own pizza with "ate Izra" (ah-tay Izra) meaning "older sister Izra".
Eleanor with our local pastor. She was very happy to receive lots of rewards at VBS.
Prayer meeting with our church. Can't remember what the ribbons were for...
Looking cute and picking strawberries - a fun adventure that turned into an overnight stay.
Picking strawberries with mama.
Rest house at the end of our hike ... met these two guys who had run a long way before the hike even began!
"Home"
The beautiful place we call "home". This was taken on an early morning hike with coworkers.
Lily sweeping using a local outdoor broom called "tukog nga silhig"
Luzon from above
Luzon
Observing a language and culture evaluation in a tribal village - the beginning of Travis' training as a language consultant (March, 2023).
Observing a language and culture evaluation in a tribal village - the beginning of Travis' training as a language consultant (March, 2023).
Eleanor feeding pigs in a village
Flying into a village with our pilot/friend up north.
Natasha and our girls heading somewhere...
Harvesting a chicken for dinner
Eleanor with her friend on a hike.
Local waterfall :)
Snack with a coworker and our language helpers.
Lunch at a local "karenderya" (street kitchen?) with our language helpers.
Church anniversary 2023 :)
Natasha, Eleanor and Lily in the walkway in front of our house.
Back when we were in phase 1 of Bisaya language learning (April, 2022).