On this journey there are many gifts that God gives us!!
Among these gifts are the precious children we have met over the years whose
lives have become intertwined with ours.....
The picture above is of the children who lived in Cauyunan when we first arrived there.
All of them are adults now and most of them are married and have children!!
The boy in the blue shorts on the right side of the photo is
Ryan Duwang,
Ryan Duwang,
known as ‘Ayan’ to his family and friends,
and he was about 1 ½ years old when we first arrived.
He was our first patient and was dying and we were young, new missionaries with
no idea what to do. Thankfully we had God working on our behalf and Ayan recovered.
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| This is Ayan’s family: his Dad, Bugsuk and Mum, Elsa and his little sister Aybi. After Ayan recovered, they left the village upriver where they had been living and came and lived right next door to us. And they have been with us ever since!! God saved them by His Power and Grace and some years later, God sent them out to be missionaries, and brought them and us here to Lapoc as co-workers together! And during this journey Ayan grew up and is now 23 years old. And God has placed in his heart a desire to train to be a ‘Mother-Tongue Bible Translator’!  |
This is a recent family photo of Bugsuk and Elsa and their family.
This month, they had to say goodbye to their son, Ayan.
It was a familiar scene to us:
the airport doors,
the hugs, the tears, the last wave goodbye, heading for the unknown.
Ayan left to go and start training to be a bible translator on Sept. 8th.
He will be in Manila for a couple of years,
will need to achieve a high fluency in English,
will have to study very, very hard
and will be very homesick.......
but it is for the goal of having a part in translating the Word of God
into his mother tongue!!!
Please pray for Bugs and Elsa, and their family and especially for Ayan far away at this time.
Pray that he will have courage and the tenacity to keep going through the hard times.
Pray for more mother-tongue translators to help in the huge job of translating the
Word of God into
Tala-Andig,
Higaunon
and into the many other languages that still do not have the Word of God!
Other prayer points for us are:
o Strength and endurance for us. Since Jubab’s teacher, Mrs. B, had to return to Australia for medical reasons,
we have been starting at 5:00am to make up time we are losing on the translation work when we are teaching Jubab school.
o Keep praying for a teacher for Jubab for 2011.
o Pray for Mrs. B this Friday as she has a surgical procedure.
o Keep praying for the translation of the book of Romans! It is the hardest book we have ever had to translate!
o Pray that we will finish Romans by the date set for the Consultant check which is in Mar. 2011.
