Ian Fallis

“Words are playthings to Ian,” one of my co-workers is fond of saying.

I admit I have often used that power for evil, assembling the most mind-numbing puns imaginable.

But mostly I’ve used it to write and to edit.

My entire career, I have been a writer and editor, which is a great privilege. And now I've finally written a book.

Out of college, I worked at a series of daily newspapers: The Victor Valley Daily Press (Victorville, California), the Daily Report (Ontario, California), the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, California) and the Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California).

I learned a lot from being a reporter and editor. Stuff like, what a pica pole is, and how to split hairs about newspaper style, and where to get a good cup of coffee. (Hint: Not in any newsroom I’ve been near.)

From there, I entered New Tribes Mission, planning to take the gospel to an unreached tribe in Papua New Guinea. After I learned about language and linguistics and culture, God had other plans, and I ended up using my gifts, talents and abilities as a writer and editor for New Tribes Mission.

In the course of serving with NTM, I’ve had the opportunity to visit such out-of-the-way and exotic places as Nakon Phanom and Mae Hong Son, Thailand; some tiny villages in the Amazon that shall go unnamed; several hamlets in Papua New Guinea; a mountain village on a large island in the Asia-Pacific Region; and Roach, Missouri.