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Phone Systems Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Praise that the phone and Teams voice systems were installed. This project took many months as it was carried out across four different locations.  The last three were at the Aviation center in AZ, the training center in MO, and at the US Home Office. 

   There was a lot of communication with vendors and internally to manage and switch everything from the old to the new system.  Now there is a single platform to mange phones and all the US locations can communicate more effectively through the online Microsoft suite.  

    IT Director Neil said: \u201cI\u2019m really proud of the team that worked collaboratively through this effort \u2013 because we have been talking about this project for a long time. It\u2019s huge to be on the opposite side of that now \u2013 that we did complete that effort, that we did complete that project, that it is was a success.  People have acclimated pretty well to the whole new system and the way it\u2019s [functioning].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scott’s team met to celebrate accomplishments of the past months.\u00a0 Scott was recognized for his contribution as Function Lead on the Home Office Teams Voice Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video Team<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

  In Communications we have a team member coming back to our department to work with video.  This is very exciting to move forward in video production.  Pray that the team will have wisdom in developing a podcast project.  Regina is going to assist with editing a video from a Bible translation.  Pray that she will have some good ideas. It is challenging to find a story after the fact of filming, but we are excited to have the footage to be able to take a look at it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaiah Daniel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

  We were planning to announce our new baby after we found out the gender, but the baby passed away at 16 weeks.  We ironically still found out the gender at 20 weeks!  We named the baby Isaiah Daniel.  Isaiah means \u201cGod is salvation\u201d and represents the hope we have of the resurrection.  Daniel represents the theme of God\u2019s sovereignty that can be seen throughout the book of Daniel.  We definitely felt God\u2019s peace as we walked through the miscarriage and saw his care in many details especially as everything for the induction went the best possible way it could go.   Thanks to everyone who prayed for us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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22 Akolet believers were baptized in 2012.\u00a0
Above: Adam and Toni baptizing Toni\u2019s wife Amos (AH-mose) in 2012. (photo: Martin).
Today Akolet Bible teachers travel several times a year
to different areas to receive training and equipping
for them to better lead the Akolet church.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celebrations and Losses<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

   Adam and Julie Martin, currently serving from the USA, are Bible translators for the Akolet people of Papua New Guinea. \u201c[Earlier this fall], two different small groups of Akolet people who were hearing the evangelistic teaching \u2026 have heard the gospel and have placed their faith in Christ\u2019s finished work on their behalf. Please rejoice with us!\u201d Pray that these new Akolet believers would continue to study and learn from God\u2019s Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   In October, the Martins tragically lost their home in a house fire. Pray that God would meet their needs. Praise God that their hard drive with the \u201cvast majority of our Bible translation work\u201d was restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prayer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

> The main prayer request from IT is to fill personnel needs, such as application developer, an admin for AZ and support technician for MO. 
> IT: Work on the Acumatica Finance system continues. The project team asked for more prayer about transferring data into the new system and for increased efficiency for the project. 
> IT: Pray for the Asset Inventory Project. It has been well underway as we have been focusing on devices that we want to specifically do a good job budgeting for in Fiscal Year 2025.
>Advancement: Pray for wisdom and teamwork for the podcast project to go forward
>Advancement:  Pray that Regina will have good story development ideas for the Bible translation video footage. 
>Advancement: Praise for another video team member. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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