We greatly appreciate your prayers. Ned has finished all his translation for his upcoming translation check. He is also caught up on the Scripture portions he is checking for missionaries in other tribes. The rest of us are just trying to finish up the school year before we head out on May 17th (Josiah’s birthday!). Ned’s first stop will be the Siar tribe. He will be checking all the Scripture portions they have ready for starting to teach the Creation to Christ lessons for the first time in Siar! The missionaries there plan to start on July 4th so it is exciting to be a part of their preparations. One of the missionaries in the Siar tribe has been doing the translation and Ned will be doing a “kick-off” with one of the other missionaries getting him started on being a translator also. Ned’s next stop will be the Akolet tribe. They have just taught the Creation to Christ lessons for the first time and a brand new baby church has been started there. Next, Ned will check translation for the Maleu tribe and the Lusi tribe. It will be over 2300 verses. His work as a translation consultant requires a lot of traveling.
Continue to pray for our new partner, Aimee, as she starts house building this weekend. There will be four men coming for three weeks. Pray that the wood is ready as promised this week. Pray for good weather – rain at night – sun during the day. 🙂 Also, pray for one of the team members who is having passport/visa issues with little time to resolve them. It has been fun to watch the Tigak believers work together and help Aimee gather everything needed for making cement, clearing the ground, digging out stumps, whatever needs done. They are excited to have Aimee here and want to help in any way possible.
