Our online library has gone down.
Dec 29, 2006 – We just learned yesterday that our website (www.ntm-materiales.org) of over 500 Spanish entries (articles, book chapters, etc.) has crashed. We were alerted to the fact by a couple of users who wrote to ask us why the site wasn’t working.
The support people from the hosting service advised us that the server (hard drive) on which our site was hosted died and they were unable to restore the contents.
Of course, we do have copies of all this material, but it will take some time to re-upload all of it and reconstitute the descriptions (not backed up) and enter them in the index. Now we know what we’ll be doing in the month of January!
There is a silver lining to the dark cloud above – it has presented us with an opportunity to reevaluate and determine if we want to make any changes.
We are very grateful to God for our time with our kids and the rest of the family here in San Jose. Only a few days are left before we begin making our way back to the Mexican border.
Spanish Prayer Bulletin
A very encouraging report has just reached us from Oscar and Sharon Ospina. This NTM couple moved last summer to Mexico City to raise awareness in national churches about tribal missions. They are also working to establish a new campus of the Instituto Misionero Transcultural (Cross-cultural Missions Institute) in Mexico City, beginning from an already-established church Bible School.
They report that the bulletin of prayer requests and news items which we send out in Spanish are proving to be a tremendous resource which they use daily as they educate and motivate Mexican Christians to get involved with taking the gospel to unreached people throughout the world. We hope you are excited to know that your support for this ministry is challenging more workers to respond to God’s call to send workers into His harvest fields.
Prayer Bulletin Update
We’re grateful and happy to report that 5 months of support have come in to extend the time that we can compensate Israel for his translation of the daily bulletin and articles. Please pray for more long term funding.
God bless you all in 2007!
Steve & Eida Irwin
Spanish Language Resources
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