This is the time of year when our village is almost empty of men every day. They are of out the village preparing land for rice and corn fields. Please PRAY for the right weather at planting time and following planting time and for a good harvest.
In our last update we asked you to pray for two Manubu’ Bible teachers (Pulding and Anu are the two) who planned to visit two villages to see if there are people there who would be interested in listening to the evangelistic phase of the teaching. They have actually visited three Manubu’ villages. Anu has relatives in all of those villages and relatives are usually the key to people listening.
In the first village they talked with Martin who is head of the village and who a few years ago started listening to Anu teach the evangelistic phase here in our village, but moved before it was finished. He said he would like to listen again and will invite others to listen with him. Please PRAY for the Lord to open their hearts to want to listen.
In the second village they spoke with a group of women. The men were all away from the village preparing rice and corn fields. The women said that they would talk with their husbands about listening. That village has at least one good-works-for -eternal-salvation church in it. In fact, it is the one that has been doing an outreach here in our village. So, please PRAY also for the Manubu’ in this second village – that the Lord would also open their hearts to want to listen.
At the third village they couldn’t spend much time because it was only a couple of hours before dark and the headlight on the motorcycle they were driving doesn’t work. But, Anu was able to talk with some of his relatives there. Please also PRAY for this third village.
On the way home they weren’t able to stop again at villages one and two because they met a motorcycle carrying Anu’s younger of two daughters (Ilin) going to a hospital in the lowlands. She had given birth to her second child a few days before with no problem. But, a few days later she started shaking and vomiting and had diarrhea which are all symptoms of malaria. Pulding and Anu turned around and followed them to the hospital. Ilin was dead on arrival. She was a lovely Christian girl in her early twenties. A quiet girl with a good testimony. She was one of our proofreaders of scripture and Bible lessons. It was like losing a granddaughter. Please PRAY for her family, especially her husband, Boy.
The test strips that Gene needs to self monitor his blood coagulation have not yet become available. So he is just taking the dose of warfarin that he has been taking for the last year or so and trusting the Lord that his coagulation rate will stay within limits. Please PRAY that the test strips will soon become available.
Gene has also been very sick with the worse cold he can remember along with what is apparently a yeast overgrowth as well as TMJ. He is on the mend and feeling much better, but probably still has weeks of restricted diet (mainly meat and certain vegetables and no sugar or bread) because of the yeast. Vegetables are hard to come by for us. PRAY that this yeast overgrowth or whatever it is will be conquered.
Please also PRAY for Dani, he is recording the lowland dialect version of our NT translation. It is too noisy in his village for him to record there and out in the jungle the birds are so noisy that they tend at times to overpower his reading. He trying to figure out where and how to record to avoid the noisy birds!
We can’t express how much we appreciate your part in what God is doing here through your prayers.