Dear PRAYing family and friends,
It was wonderful to celebrate Mom and Dad last month, remembering the 67 years they have been married! Thanks to all who sent special notes to them. Each and every note was appreciated. We are planning yet another small celebration on the 1st of September, a neighborhood birthday party! All four of our closest neighbors, and Dad, are getting a year older in the month of September. So we decided to celebrate together this year. We hope to spread the love of Jesus in our neighborhood. l
Oke was very hesitant to have her hysterectomy right now with our translation consultant check coming up in one month. She hoped to wait until after my trip. But neither us nor the doctor felt it should be put off any longer. We will not know until I arrive in Indonesia how this will affect my time there or the check, but we are confident that the Lord’s plan is the best plan for us. And we know that our enemy is trying his best to confuse us and cause us to doubt. We will continue to move forward in faith regardless of his tactics.
In addition to Oke’s medical needs, one of our Semandang checkers that is hoping to help us during the check next month is having terrible swelling and pain in her knees. Could you lift up Né’ Wiki also in your prayers for healing?
All of our literacy files that were created in Microsoft Publisher have now been saved as PDF and LibreOffice Draw files. I’m so thankful for the Lord’s wisdom and help finding and saving them. They will need to be reformatted at some point in the future if revisions are made. I worked on 9 new Semandang books to be printed before I arrive, and they should be at the printers this week or next.
Depending on internet access interior, I hope to send several quick prayer updates while I am there. Otherwise I’ll be updating you again sometime soon after I get back to the States on October 19.
Praises for answered prayer and prayer needs this month:
- PRAISE for many preparations coming together for my upcoming trip to Indonesia. The Semandang audio Bible have arrived as well as literacy preparations and preparations for our translation check!
- PRAISE the Lord for His wisdom and help in saving our literacy files.
- PRAY for our consultant who is doing a content check on the final chapters of our English back-translation that the Lord would enable him to find and question anything that is not accurate or clear.
- PRAISE that Oke’s surgery went well and she is recovering.
- PRAY for help for Né’ Wiki as she heads up to Bethesda Baptist HospitalosH to get her knees looked at by the medical staff there.
- Please continue to PRAY that our time in Semandang will be an encouragement and blessing to the church there.
Your participation in ministry as we partner with the churches the Lord has raised up in Indonesia blesses and encourages our hearts. And truly, without it we could not be effective. He is using us, working through our prayers and partnership in ministry to strengthen his Church there and through them to spread precious seeds of the Gospel among other people groups. Words cannot express how deeply we appreciate you.
Serving Him together,
Darcy and Ron and Nita Berglund
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