- Victor Schlatter
Victor Schlatter is a former nuclear scientist, church planter, missionary, and author. He is the author of
Where is the Body? andShowdown of the Gods .Victor grew up in
Portland, Oregon , was trained at Purdue, and eventually found himself working in a nuclear plant in Washington state. There he founded a church within theApostolic Christian Church (Nazarean) denomination. In the late 1950s, Victor dedicated himself to a new vision, to reach the stone-age people ofPapua New Guinea and translate the Bible into theWaola language. He and his wife Elsie spent 30 years in the country and produced an entire Bible and founded theTiliba Christian Church , which is currently composed of over one hundred churches.Schlatter now resides in
Australia , where he still provides oversight and accountability to thePapua New Guinea churches and directsSouthern Pacific Island Ministries , which is dedicated to promoting a relationship between southern pacific island Christians andIsrael .External links
* [http://www.spim.org.au/ Southern Pacific Island Ministries]
* [http://www.wabconline.org/m_schlatter.htm A Bio of the Schlatters]
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