2,500 Bibles sent to remote tribe that once killed missionaries

Thank you my friend MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. for making us aware that 2,500 bibles have been sent to the Yali Papua, New Guinea tribe that once killed missionaries 55 years after missionaries Phil Masters and Stan Dale trying to reach them with the Gospel were slain.
Praise the LORD

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1. During the month of August MAF flew several flights of Bibles to the Yali people. They had received their translation back in 2000 but you can imagine what a bible might look like after 20 years in rough interior of Papua. What a joy to bring in new Bibles for the people and a for a new generation of young folks to have the Word of God.
2. Yali tribes dance around the MAF Kodiak plane PK-MED
3. It has been 20 years since the Yali people last received new copies of the Bible in their language (Photo: Mission Aviation Fellowship)
4. A woman in traditional tribal clothes holding the Bible in the Yali language in Apahapsili, Papua, Indonesia(Photo: Mission Aviation Fellowship)

Some Yali tribespeople walked an entire day to reach the the Oakbisik airstrip in the mountains of Papua, Indonesia, to receive the shipment of Bibles in their own language from Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF).
It was in 1965 that MAF pilots first located the Yali people in the Seng Valley region of Papua after conducting survey flights in what was then Dutch New Guinea.
The Yali were at the time marked by violence, being masters in jungle warfare, and practised witchcraft as well as cannibalism.
Three years after they were first found by the MAF pilots, World Team missionaries Phil Masters and Stan Dale made plans to start a church in the Seng Valley and share the Gospel with the tribe.
Yali warriors lay in wait for them near a jungle path and ambushed the two missionaries, raining down arrows on them.

The two missionaries stood their ground, pulling the arrows from their bodies and breaking them in two in front of the warriors. They are reported to have died after being shot by some 200 arrows.

When the Newman missionary family went in search of them three months later, their plane tragically crashed in the Seng Valley killing everyone on board except their youngest son Paul Newman, who managed to escape the burning wreckage and find shelter in the hut of a Yali man who did not agree with the killing of missionaries.
When the Yali found out Paul had survived, they took it as a sign and invited missionaries into their village at Holuwan. Five years later, 35 new Christians were baptised there and a church was born.

Today, MAF continues to serve the people of Papua, flying eight aircraft to 160 remote locations and supporting rural church plants, as well as local Bible translation projects.

The August shipment brought 1,160 Bibles and 1,400 children's Bible stories translated into the Yali language to the villages of Dekai, Oakbisik and Holuwan.

Linda Ringenberg, whose husband Dave co-piloted the Cessna 208B aircraft carrying the Bibles, said: ''When the MAF pilots asked the Yali if they could pull out a Bible and open it for a picture at Holuwan, the villagers immediately chose the Psalm 119:105: 'Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.'

"Now, instead of waiting for war, the Yali church has been waiting for more Bibles in their language. Because God in His far-reaching love, worked through a killing, a plane crash, faithful missionaries, translators and organisations like MAF, these Yali tribes no longer walk the path of darkness. Their path is lit by the Word of God."

FYI PO1 H Gene Lawrence SSG Michael Noll SGT Steve McFarland SSG William Jones SPC Chris Hallgrimson PO2 Frederick Dunn SPC Nancy Greene Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. SSG Franklin Briant SSG Samuel Kermon PO3 Phyllis Maynard CW5 Jack Cardwell LTC (Join to see) Maj Kim Patterson SMSgt David A Asbury SMSgt Lawrence McCarter PVT Mark Zehner PFC Rick Schuetz SGM Bill Frazer

Word of God slowly spreading into the world MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.

But...why? There's a reason that there are still remote tribes in the world that are cut off from the "civilization." I feel like if you go somewhere that kills missionaries, that's a pretty big sign to stay away.