Dear Prayer Supporters,
“And
let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint
not.” (Gal. 6:9) Please pray for us as we keep working to translate God’s Word
into Chadian languages! Pray that we
will look to God for strength and not become discouraged.
Visit from the Director
The highlight of the past
few months was a visit from the director of Bibles International. He came to teach a class for Chadian church
leaders, along with his wife and two other teachers. When the class finished, he and his wife
stayed in Chad for another week in order to meet with our Chadian translation
office staff and translation teams. It
was an intense week of activity, but at each meeting people came away encouraged
to continue the work that God has entrusted to them.
Translation Update
In November and December,
I had workshops with with the Sara Kaba Naa and Sara Madjingay teams,
and checked a variety of things with each team.
The Sara Kaba Naa are nearly finished with verse-by-verse content
checking, and the Sara Madjingay have been working on quality checking for
nearly a year now. Both of these teams
are making progress, but the translators and the committees that help them
check the translations are sometimes discouraged. Pray for these teams,
that they will work together well and get the work done in a timely fashion. Sometimes the teams are like marathon runners
on the last lap of the race: they’ve come so far and worked so hard, but
somehow that last lap is the most exhausting of all.
Bookstore Ministry
The demand for Christian books in French continues to grow, especially
among Bible school students. Please
pray for financial provision for these books. There are currently more than 40 people who
have ordered books – a total of around 120 books, with an estimated total cost
of over $3000. If you would like to help
some Chadian Bible school students or pastors to have books for their
ministries, please send funds to Baptist Mid-Missions for the account of Anna
Beth Wivell: National/Pastoral Assistance.
Thank you for your faithful prayers and support.
In Christ's Service,
Anna Beth Wivell
Anna, thanks for the update. Praise for the timely work He's doing. Praying for" the last lap" of the marathon.
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