Doriot Family
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Irian Jaya church planting/Bible translation ministry; helps on Scripture memorization, prayer lists, etc.; other materials and links that are interesting, inspirational, beneficial, or helpful to Christians |
PICTURES of Doriot ministry; other Irian Jaya tribes.
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There is a lot to see on the Web! We're sharing with you here VALUABLE things that we have found, or received - and some we have worked up ourselves. We'll be adding more regularly!
But WAIT, have you paid yet for your visit? Just kidding, of course, it's FREE - but if you would please, just breathe a prayer for our whole family, that the Lord may guide, direct,and use us all for His glory! And please pray for His direction on development of this page, that it might edify many, be a stimulus for more missions involvement, and even reach many who are lost! So, mark your Bookmarks or Favorites, and take a look! THANKS! :)
Yours in Christ,
Roger, Suzanne, Linda, Daniel (E-mail: roger.doriot@crossworld.org )
We have been asked to give information on how to have a part financially in these vital ministries. Indeed, though prayer is most important, funds are needed to carry on and expand the work of getting God's Word to people who do not have it - NOW! Any size gift is SO helpful! If you wish to contribute to our ministry, please email Roger, at the address given here.
Giving can be done quickly by credit card on the CrossWorld web site: www.crossworld.org. Or a check can sent to CrossWorld, PO Box 306, Bala-Cynwyd, PA 19004. In either case, make clear it is for "Doriots - Papua ministry." Or specify if it is for a particular project or a personal gift. ... Please contact us if you have any questions, or call CrossWorld: 610-667-7660. THANKS for your partnership!!!
To send us e-mail, click here:roger.doriot@crossworld.org. (If you'd like exciting up-to-date news and prayer requests by email from this ministry to jungle tribes, so you can have a part through prayer, just let us know.)
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(Above) Remote village in Nalja area
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(Above) Nalja airstrip and station from high above
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"When I get to the end of my life I don't want to look back and see that I've played 'Trivial Pursuit'."
-- Dr. McQuilken of Columbia Bible College
"The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way."
"Some people think that God does not like to be troubled with our constant asking. The way to trouble God is
not to come at all."
-- Dwight L. Moody
"I have found that God leaves, even in the most spiritual people, certain weaknesses which seem to be entirely
out of place. This is true of all of us. And all of us need to be quick to recognize our own imperfection..."
-- Fenelon
The American philosopher, Eric Hoffer, said, "The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time... When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else -- we are the busiest people in the world."
"God sometimes shuts the door and shuts us in,
That He may speak, perchance through grief or pain;
And softly, heart to heart, above the din
May teach some precious truth to us again."
-- Author unknown, from Carolyn Justice
"If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in
the flesh."
-- Seneca
CS Lewis believed that "the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride." He wrote in Mere Christianity that it is "the one vice of which no man in the world is free; which everyone in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. ... " (Do get and read Mere Christianity if you haven't!)
To the pure in heart nothing really bad can happen. He may die, but what is death to a Christian? Not death, but
sin, should be our great fear.
-- Tozer
The purpose behind all doctrine is to secure moral action.
-- Tozer
“So powerful is the effect of the printed page on human character that the reading of good books is not only
a privilege but an obligation.”
-- Tozer
"When the Bible is well used the devil is not amused." (Are you using your Bible, or your computer Bible program, enough?)
Over the humble, obedient soul the devil has no power. He can harm us only when we play into his hands...whenever
we harbor unjudged and uncleansed evil with us.
-- Tozer
"If God gave us favours without constraining us to pray for them, we should never know how poor we are, but a
true prayer is an inventory of wants, a catalogue of necessities, a revelation of hidden poverty. While it is an
application to divine wealth, it is a confession of human emptiness."
-- Charles Spurgeon
If your heart is cold and dead, remember that religion is not a matter of feeling, but has to do first with the
will.
-- Murray, The Prayer Life, p. 89.
God never tires of new-beginnings. (Prov 24:16)
-- Dr. Deibler, DTS Chapel, 1972.
Look around and be distressed, look within and be depressed, look at Jesus and be at rest.
-- Corrie Ten Boom, Pulpit Digest, 1974
It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that
they should receive that blessing often and regularly.
-- Richard Whately (1787-1863)
Also, go to our Quote page. MANY more quotes (periodic additions, changes)
Check out the UFM International web page.
NEW SITE! Irian Jaya Prayer Page We need concentrated prayer by many for Irian Jaya!
More below, but also see:
Doriot Links, good sites to visit.
(Doriot testimonies, "My Dilemma," and other info on Nalja too.)
Some of our links to other good web sites:
Long Distance to God(Scripture for various
needs.)
Classic Christian Books (LOOK AT THIS!)
World Prayer Fellowship
(Includes World leaders. See this!!)
Back to the Bible (A trusty standby!)
Brigada (Great on missions and unreached peoples!)
Goshen (Take a look!)
World Connect (Lots of Christian connections.)
David Sisler's Home Page (All kinds of good
connections.)
Gospelcom
Persevering Prayer (Everything Andrew Murray
writes is good!)
Focus on the Family
Christian Book Distributors
Christianity Net
Biblical Studies Foundation
Help with overcoming pornography
temptations
Steps to Peace
Memlok Scripture Memory Program FANTASTIC!!
Scripture Memory Connection Lots of help for Scripture memory.
Christian Hymns and Words Download and play on your
computer anytime!
Great Christian Books Check these out!
Missionary Biographies Good concise
reading!
Some great devotionals Receive by e-mail automatically!
The Imitation of Christ
A classic you have to read!
Plan of salvation Give this site to
your friends!
Christian Connection Games
Free Quickverse Bible program Highly recommended!
Kids' Missions Resources Get kids interested in
Missions. We need them!
SIM site Great missions info and links!
Dialpad! Free long distance calls! We can call you from here free.
Email us your phone number!
Marsha West page All kinds of great Christian stuff!
New Age answers Great help that is needed today on
the occult, etc., by Marcia Montenegro!
Roger's life verses: Proverbs 3:5,6.
Read a good devotional here
(And let us know of some GREAT site you've found to add!)
NALJA, IRIAN JAYA
(Chicken Head story below)
The Doriots have ministered for nearly twenty-five years in Irian Jaya. Irian Jaya is the former Dutch New Guinea, or West Irian, the western half of the largest island in the world. It is located just north of Australia, and just below the equator. It is a province (state) in the country of Indonesia.
The one and a half million or so inhabitants are divided into about 270 different tribes, some as small as 100 or less people with a distinct language. The Nalja tribe is a tribe of around 10,000 people, living in about 50 different villages in a 1,000 square mile area of interior mountain highlands, about 125 miles south of Sentani (MAF base) and Jayapura (provincal capitol - formerly Hollandia) on the north coast.
The Nalja people are short, almost pygmy type, kinky-haired black-skinned people. Agriculture and a little hunting provide bare subsistence living, sweet potatoes being the staple. Inter-village fighting with bows and arrows was common in the past, with cannibalism practised occasionally. They live in round grass-roofed huts, with no furniture, and a fireplace on the floor in the center.
Animism has been their religion, primarily involving worship and fear of spirits, supposedly of their departed ancestors. The need for sanitation was little realized, medicine was unknown - in fact, these people had no contact with the outside world until the latter half of this twentieth century.
HISTORY OF THE NALJA WORK
Two UFM missionaries trekked for about a week through the dense jungle from the nearest airstrip to contact the Nalja tribe in 1963. A short airstrip was built and opened in 1964, with the Stan Sadlier family arriving to begin the work.
Analyzing the unwritten language was difficult, and interest by the people low, so the work went slowly during the initial years. Sadliers had to leave the field, and the Cuttings and several other families and individuals spent some time at Nalja.
Finally, in 1970, a break came, and the first village burned their fetishes. There were still some ups and downs, but in 1974 the first believer was baptized. The Doriots arrived in late 1975, just as preparations were being made for the first major baptism.
Forty were baptized in 1976, and forty-six more in 1977, but then a big inter-village war set things back significantly. However, in a couple years, things began to move forward even more rapidly. By the end of 1981, church membership had doubled, and by 1984 had doubled again, making a total of about 400 baptized believers when Doriots left for furlough that year.
During that one year of furlough, the church came into its own, learning to pretty much carry on by themselves, and 218 additional belivers were baptized. There were then about fifteen churches organized with indigenous leadership, over thirty-five villages having at least one baptized believer, and evangelists working in most of the other villages in the tribe as well.
In the subsequent years, the church has continued to grow. In 1986, almost another hundred were baptized, and about 200 more in 1987, which gave the tribe 1000 baptized believers. The number has continued to climb. However, there was another inter-village war in 1989, which was not finally settled until 1991. This was a significant setback for a time for five major villages.
Several young men are in an Indonesian Bible School on the coast (first graduate in 1992), with other leaders being trained in the Nalja Bible School, in the vernacular language. Several fellows are taking, or planning to take, further theological training in other parts of Indonesia.
The Doriots are now working with the Nalja church in reaching out into a number of neighboring unevangelized tribes, as well as working to complete the translation of the Bible and continuing to work to develop leadership and help and advise current tribal leaders. By 2000 there were over 3,000 baptized believers.
The Chicken Head story - July, 1999
My son, Daniel (13), and I had risen early and were sitting around the fire with a few other Nalja tribespeople in the grass roofed hut where we had spent the night in the Salenggon village. We were planning to get an early start for our seven hour trek back home to our station, as we had a treacherous cliff to negotiate on the way back, along with a stop to check on lumber being cut by Nalja pitt sawyers (by hand using a cross cut saw)for a small translation building for the three Nalja tribal Bible translators with whom we work as we finish up the New Testament in the Nalja language.
We ate a little of some of the food my wife, Suzanne, had packed for us, and some of the fruit we had bought the day before from villagers as we traveled, and were about ready to leave when a young man ducked through the low doorway into the hut carrying a wok. "We have some chicken for you," he said. Well, the aroma was good, and though I realized it wasn't Kentucky Fried Chicken, it was a really nice gesture from them, and I figured it would still taste pretty good.
They placed the wok near the fireplace between Daniel and me, and I reached over and picked up a piece in the dim light of the barely flickering fire. I took a little bite off the side of the piece, quite heavily seasoned and quite tasty. As I did, I thought to myself, "As dark as it is in here, I could be eating the head, for all I know!" (They waste NOTHING when they eat meat here!) Just then the fire flickered a little more brightly, and I saw the silhouette of a rooster's comb on the piece I was holding!
Well, being the generous person I am, at that point I placed that delicacy back in the pan for some person more worthy than myself, and took another piece! And after I mentioned it to Daniel, I noticed that he also avoided that piece.
We did appreciate their contribution to our breakfast, however, and a little later obtained a couple carriers and left for the Diriwemnat village nearby, where we made a short visit, and then headed home, at which we arrived safely early in the afternoon.
Please pray for these tribal people in the Nalja tribe, and for those in the other approximately 270 different tribes in Irian Jaya, Indonesia! Pray for those where the church is already established, as at Nalja where we have worked for twenty years. Pray for those where the church is very new. And pray for those tribes still without the Gospel or any church at all!
We'd love to send you occasional info and stories by e-mail if you'd like, so you can also pray specifically and have a meaningful part in the wonderful things the Lord is doing to raise up people for himself from among many formerly Stone Age tribes throughout Irian Jaya! Thank you for your interest and concern! Let us know if you'd like to join us in prayer.
Yours in Christ,
Roger E. Doriot
Crossworld
roger.doriot@crossworld.org
http://www.rogerdoriot.com/
http://www.rogerdoriot.com/world/Missions/worldpray
Cut and paste the above story and contact info, and share with friends as the Lord leads. We need many more to pray for the great needs still in evidence in this beautiful land!
Uh, oh! What did YOU see on the Internet?
Faithful: Hi! How are you doing today?
Not so faithful: Pretty well. Thanks! What have you been doing?
F: Oh, just installed a couple new programs on my computer. Amazing all the things coming out.
N: Yes, sure is a lot on the Internet too!
F: Sure is! Lots of good, and lots of bad.
N: Do you mean all the pornography?
F: Yes, thats a lot of it.
N: Well, uuh ...
F: What's the matter? Has that been a problem for you?
N: Well, I ... Well, is that all so very wrong? I mean, ya, some of it really is, but what about just some of the
beautiful girls? God did make all that beauty, you know. Is it wrong to enjoy what He made so beautiful?
F: I've wondered some about that too in the past. All this art and sculptures, for example. I thought it was really
bad - but then I wondered if there really was a place for some of that in art, showing the creation that God made.
I'm still not sure if there is some place for that or not.
N: But, to be honest, yes, I enjoy some of the pictures on the Internet sometimes. Are you tempted to look at them
too?
F: Well, yes. I guess most men are. But the Lord has helped me to resist those temptations - most of the time.
N: Aha! So you have seen some too!
F: Yes, I have a couple times, but the Lord convicted me that what I did was wrong. I just ran across this verse
recently: Psalm 101:3 - "I will set before my eyes no vile (or wicked) thing. The deeds of faithless men I hate;
they will not cling to me." It's pretty obvious that most of those things on those sites fit in the category of
wicked or vile. They are not promoting marriage, just sex, and things that God has said in His Word are really wrong!
N: Do you really think just looking at those things is wrong?
F: Well, God established marriage and determined that it was to be between one man and one woman. And He clearly
states that any other relationships are wrong. He knows all about our physical desires - He made them - but He wants
us to have them under control. One problem with looking at such pictures is that it stimulates our physical desires
more than God intends. This becomes detrimental to the spiritual aspect of our lives, puts it out of balance. Our
physical desires are strong enough without encouraging them in that way!
N: Yes, you're right there! ...
N: OK, I think you are right. I'm going to cut that stuff out - starting now!
F: Well, it won't be easy - especially at first, as any habit is difficult to end. I'll be happy to pray for you
especially in this time. Actually, we can pray for each other, and check up on each other. What do you think of that?
N: Well, I'd be embarrassed if you checked on me, and I had done it again. Hey, that's probably the point, huh?
Checking up on each other will give us some extra motivation to resist! OK, it's a deal. I really do want to do what
is right, but I'm awfully weak sometimes.
F: We all are. Only by God's grace, and staying close to Him through regular reading of His Word, prayer, and close
fellowship with other faithful Christians do we have any hope at all!
N: OK, thanks! You're a real friend. ... I've got to go. See you soon!
F: OK, see ya!
The Great Lie About Sex (C. S. Lewis)
"Our warped natures, the devils who tempt us, and all the contemporary propaganda for lust, combine to make us feel that the desires we are resisting are so 'natural,' so 'healthy,' and so reasonable, that it is almost perverse and abnormal to resist them. Poster after poster, film after film, novel after novel, associate the idea of sexual indulgence with the ideas of health, normality, youth, frankness, and good humour. Now this assiociation is a lie. Like all powerful lies, it is based on a truth ... that sex in itself (apart from the excesses and obsessions that have grown round it) is 'normal' and 'healthy,' and all the rest of it. The lie consists in the suggestion that any sexual act to which you are tempted at the moment is also healthy and normal. Now this, on any conceivable view, and quite apart from Christianity, leads to impotence, disease, jealousies, lies, concealment, and everything that is the reverse of health, good humour, and frankness. For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary; so the claim made by every desire, when it is strong, to be healthy and reasonable, counts for nothing. Every sane and civilized man must have some set of principles by which he chooses to reject some of his desires and to permit others. One man does this on Christian principles, another on hygienic principles, another on sociological principles. The real conflict is not between Christianity and 'nature,' but between Christian prinicples and other principles in the control of 'nature,' For 'nature' (in the sense of natural desire) will have to be controlled anyway, unless you are going to ruin your whole life."
Excerpt from Book III, Chapter 5, of Mere Christianity, by CS Lewis. Get the book in paperback if you don't have it.
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