In our recent trip to the city for supply buying, dentist, cardiologist, and copying of the 66 Manubu’ Bible lessons that we recently finished final revision of we were busier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs!
We had 23,500 sheets of paper copied front and back with the Bible lessons. We just give the copy center PDF files of the lesson books, and they copy right from those files on a huge Xerox copier that spits out the pages faster than they can be counted! It is a lot faster and cheaper to have the lessons xeroxed than it is to print them on our laser printer. Next time we are in the city we’ll have more copies made of those lessons. We thank the Lord for the copy center He showed us which is owned by a lady in her 80’s who is dedicated to quality and gives us a break on price because it is Bible lessons being copied.
We thank the Lord for Manilyn and Aga (two young Manubu’ girls who are believers) who in just three days time have already turned a huge amount of those lessons into books.
We have asked for prayer for a solution to Gene’s heart running faster than it should. His cardiac surgeon did a lot of resetting of Gene’s pacemaker. His pulse is now in the normal range -not too fast and not too slow, but almost always irregular. So, please PRAY that when we are in the city again a few months from now the cardio will be able to make more adjustments which will take care of the irregular pulse and still keep the rate normal.
Thanks for praying for our son-in-law’s back surgery. He is healing well, but it will be a long time yet before he can go back to work. He now has two rods in his back. We asked our daughter if that is making him sit and stand straight. She said that he already does that because he is a former Marine!
Because it will probably be a few more years before we visit the States, we’ve been praying that the Lord would send someone to do a short video of our work that we could send to all of you who would like it. So we are excited that next week two young men visiting the Philippines from England will be coming to us and one of them is an expert at shooting and editing videos. There are also some small building and maintenance jobs that they might also be able to help with.
Gene has been translating Daniel. It is very encouraging to think that God allowed the Greeks to overpower the Medes and Persians so that people throughout the Greek empire would learn Greek. That meant that when people like Paul traveled and preached throughout that whole wide area they didn’t have to learn a multitude of languages – everybody understood Greek! And today as we look at all the crazy things that are going on in the world around us we can be confident that it is all part of God’s plan for the entrance of the tribulation and a one-world government during that time. After we’re out of here, of course!
Still looking ^UP and praising Him,
Gene & Carol Trudeau With the Manubu’ people New Tribes Mission, Philippines blog: ntm.org/gene_trudeau