{"id":391,"date":"2026-05-18T14:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darcy-berglund\/?p=391"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:15:51","slug":"may-2026-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darcy-berglund\/2026\/05\/18\/may-2026-update\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2026 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dear PRAYing Family and Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greetings once again from our home in Sheridan, Wyoming! It\u2019s been good to hear from so many that are praying for us and supporting us in our ministry. The Lord has provided so abundantly more than we can ask or think. Designated funds have come in for both travel and for bringing Semandang audio Bibles to the churches in Semandang. Thank you so much for praying and being a part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I reached the \u00bd point of translating \u201cback-into-English\u201d for my consultant check of over 1300 verses of Old Testament Semandang scripture earlier this month and will continue to focus on that for the next month. Oke has been back into drafting the book of Ezra and recently finished chapter 5, so she is also \u00bd way through that book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April is the month I normally focus on connecting with our teams in West Kalimantan for their annual literacy updates and needs. It was great to hear from most of the teams there this past month. There are some on-going literacy classes that are great to help low literacy level groups increase their fluency in reading and comprehension. This is a major step toward bringing people greater access to God\u2019s Word in their heart language. I will be working more on Semandang literacy projects in the months ahead. Please pray that our church planting teams will know how to motivate people to be excited about reading.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Embaloh church has just put in a request for getting the Luke gospel film in their language. This requires a week-long commitment on their behalf to re-record the Luke audio. Please pray that this project will be able to be completed soon and for God\u2019s help as all the details get set up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is Gaing\u2019s mother reading. She is an Embaloh believer and pillar in the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us this month in prayer and praise:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. PRAISE<\/strong> for reaching the \u00bd point in the back translation preparation for upcoming consultant check<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. PRAISE<\/strong> for Oke making good progress on drafting Ezra.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. PRAISE<\/strong> for provision for my trip in September.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. PRAY<\/strong> for reading and comprehension fluency for the tribal churches.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. PRAY<\/strong> for the Embaloh church project of re-recording the gospel of Luke.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. PRAY <\/strong>for all the preparations for my up-coming trip to A-P in September.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Please continue to lift these prayer requests and praises to the Lord of the harvest. Thank you so much for being a prayer partner to see churches established and built up in their faith. It is a tremendous blessing to have a small part in seeing this happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Serving Him together,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Darcy and Ron and Nita Berglund<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Dear PRAYing Family and Friends, Greetings once again from our home in Sheridan, Wyoming! It\u2019s been good to hear from so many that are praying for us and supporting us in our ministry. The Lord has provided so abundantly more than we can ask or think. Designated funds have come in for both travel and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darcy-berglund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darcy-berglund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darcy-berglund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darcy-berglund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darcy-berglund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darcy-berglund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darcy-berglund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darcy-berglund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darcy-berglund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darcy-berglund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}