A HUGE PRAISE POINT:
COL 4 – 1 THESS 5:11
IS COMPLETED!!
Our goal is to complete 30 verses per week, which
includes about 10 hours of study, working many hours on skype each week with
our translation team, doing a thorough content check to make sure that no
information is missing….and many other things. It is heavy-going and we are
spending about 8-10 hours in the office each day, but it is very rewarding!
Our translation team in Lapoc are feeling the push too
and are working long hours. In the picture above you can see Nanah’s smiling
face on one of our skype calls earlier this week. She puts extensive time in
with us on skype helping us to translate and she also takes each chapter when
we have finished working on it and she checks it with other people in Lapoc to
make sure it is readable and easily comprehended. Some days she starts at 7 am
and this is a big commitment on her part as she has 4 children to care for and
she is also involved in teaching scripture in the schools on a Thursday and in
Women’s Ministry as well. It helps her a lot that her husband Danny is
supportive and she has a wonderful mother and sister who willingly help her
with babysitting when this is needed.
Ryan and Sarah – although new on the translation team
– have been spending hours with Nanah, watching how she checks the translation
with others and listening to us as well while we translate on skype. Ryan says
that he is beginning to feel very interested and excited in the translation! Although
he has done 6 years of training in university and in seminary preparing to be a
Bible translator, it is only just now starting to feel ‘real’ to him and the
Lord is awakening a new passion in his heart for doing translation work. Sarah
is so supportive of him and is also putting time into learning translation
principles so she can help her husband all she can.
TRANSLATION PRAYER POINTS
· * Pray for our satellite internet signal in
Lapoc to always be strong as sometimes the signal is weak and this can prevent
us from accessing the help we need.
· * Pray that we will finish 1 Thess 5:12 – 1
Tim 3 by the end of Feb.
· * Pray for Nanah that she will constantly
find all the strength and joy she needs in the Lord.
· * Pray for Ryan and Sarah as they go through the
adjustments of being newlyweds, expecting their first baby and a huge new
learning curve as they fit into the translation team.
· * Pray for us as we are getting less sleep
than we would like but it is worth it. Pray
that we will continue to meet our goals of 30 verses completed each week and
pray for many hours each day of uninterrupted time so we can work efficiently.
We feel very
privileged to have been entrusted with this precious work by our Lord and we
are very excited as we see the Tala-Andig scriptures becoming a reality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
