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Prayers Matter

Thanks to each of you, our prayer warriors, for lifting up our concerns in prayer. And it has made a difference. Here are some of the ways that your prayers have been answered.

We have been praying for rain, especially in the Cape Town area. God blessed the area with normal rainfall in April, which hasn’t happened in the last number of years. Normally, May is a very dry month, however, there has been rainfall this May. The reservoirs are still low, but the rain is making a difference. God is good!

We have been praying for new partners to join our Wycliffe ministry. There have been a number of new prayer partners and a number of them have also financially partnered with us. While we still have a ways to go, we are so thankful to each of you who have have decided to partner with us financially to reach our Wycliffe established budget and so grateful to our Father for his providence. We are at 48% so far!

Our request this month is that each of you prays BOLDLY for many more prayer and financial partners to join our Wycliffe ministry. And for the Bibleless, especially in Southern Africa.

We have been praying for a partnership with Resonate Global Mission. Those prayers have been answered as we have been accepted as partner missionaries. At the end of May and beginning of June, we will be in Grand Rapids, Michigan for training with them. We ask that you continue to pray for the fruits of that partnership to grow and that God will be glorified.

Secondment

SIL and Wycliffe are close partners with shared vision and values. While we are in South Africa, we will be working with SIL Southern Africa (SOA). Wycliffe remains our administrator for finance management, however, our day-to-day work tasks will be under SIL SOA. The two organizations work hand in hand to accomplish the shared goal of having a Bible in every language. This ‘loan’ to SIL is referred to as secondment.

SIL – SOA
(Southern Africa)
A Few Facts

17 Countries
170 million people
120 Bible Translation Needs
8 Countries with active projects

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