In 2002-2003, Cara served as a student missionary with Marc and Cathy Coleman on the Susu project while she was in college. After meeting and marrying Daniel, they and their son Andrew started serving as AFM missionaries in 2007 in Guinea, West Africa. After only 9 months, God opened the doors for them to serve in Cambodia on the Great River Project. They transitioned to the Great River project for the next year and four months. During their language learning time, Autumn was born. As they were preparing to move to the Great River Project, God redirected them up to the Pnong Project. They picked up where Braden and Johanna Pewitt left off. Shortly after this, Alex was born into the family.
By God’s leading and blessing, they have a thriving K-6 elementary school. There is a small group of baptized Pnong in a local village who meet each Sabbath. Most Sabbath afternoons they travel out to help share a Bible study with a Pnong family 40 minutes out of town. They look forward to how God will bless in the future. This is His work, His project, and He is the one growing and guiding the work in people’s hearts and lives.
Another amazing way that God blessed was in the fall of 2017, the Nicholaides and the Timmins families joined the project. Daniel and Cara had been working without teammates for 10 years. This change took place at exactly the right time as the project was ripe to open up and blossom.
The Pnong world is changing rapidly. Only a few years ago, the Pnong did not use money or own land. Now the influence of the majority culture is bringing huge changes to the Pnong lifestyle. These once nomadic people are now forced to stay in one place and own land.
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Daniel Greenfield
October 01 2012, 11:30 pm | Comments 0
Yau’s arthritic fingers carefully wove the thin strips of wood back and forth as the basket slowly took shape. My in-laws were visiting, and they had asked her to make a special two-part basket that could be used to collect the missionary offering at their home church. One side was to be used to pick up offering for the Pnong Project and the other side for GC Missions.
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Daniel Greenfield
September 01 2012, 11:27 pm | Comments 0
As we start our cultural study of the Pnong, we are reviewing the many events we have experienced in this first year of Pnong language learning. We have been to weddings, funerals, healings and other spiritual ceremonies. God has blessed us by opening doors for us to see a variety of different ceremonies even though we are still relatively new to the Pnong people.
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Daniel Greenfield
August 01 2012, 6:09 pm | Comments 0
Frantically, I searched for a place to sit as waves of nausea washed over me. I felt the darkness of a blackout creeping up on me like a wild jungle cat ready to pounce at any minute. Fortunately, there was a motorcycle behind me that I could lean against and a table I could lay my head on. Sweat poured from my body as I fought to keep from losing my lunch.
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Daniel Greenfield
July 01 2012, 5:52 pm | Comments 0
I was fascinated by Mbut Rapo and knew I could learn a lot from him. His knives were different from the usual Pnong knives I had seen. The traditional style of knife he made was smaller than normal, yet very functional. Even his personal bush knife had a water-buffalo-horn handle.
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Daniel Greenfield
June 01 2012, 5:42 pm | Comments 0
