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<\/a>we will head to the States to begin a 6 month home assignment\/furlough time.\u00a0 We look forward to connecting with many of you and are still in the stage of making plans and getting tickets.\u00a0 We will plan to be in Jacksonville for the majority of our time after a Christmas month in Michigan with my family.\u00a0 If there are ways we can be a blessing to your family when we are in the States we would like to do that.<\/p>\nRight when we got back to the village after our time in town,\u00a0 we had ten days together with a fellow missionary who oversees the literacy efforts Right now for Tim, his full attention is turned towards getting about 1000 verses ready for checking.\u00a0 The plan is to have a translation consultant come this October.\u00a0 In preparation for that Tim will need to get his translated material worked through with several of our friends here in the village. Pray with us that there would be just the right people to help with <\/a>here on the field.\u00a0 The goal of all our literacy efforts is that those who believe the gospel will have the skills to read and understand God\u2019s word. Praise the Lord we have a very good start on creating the primers that will be foundational for teaching people to read and write the tribal language.\u00a0 Writing primers sounds like a simple, even elementary kind of project but wow did it take brain power to come up with little stories using just a few letters for the first primer.\u00a0 We\u2019re very thankful for consultants who are willing to help us through these projects, it saves tons of time and effort in not having to reinvent the wheel!<\/p>\n<\/a>this process.\u00a0 Tim has about two weeks to get this material ready and off to the consultant for pre-checking.\u00a0 We would truly appreciate your prayers with us for these things over the next two weeks.\u00a0 Again it seems like a simple thing to just get a few verses checked by the people here but for us this is a big deal as we face the difficulties of not having very many people available to sit with us for hours and hours and work through the material we have.\u00a0 They have busy days and activities they are involved in and to sit and work on something that they don\u2019t have a vision for yet is not easy.\u00a0 But we have to have their involvement so that the translation can be as clear as possible.\u00a0 It\u2019s another step of faith for us as we watch how God provides for us!\u00a0 Thanks for praying for available, willing people.<\/p>\n