Prayer Request 3-10-2010     

1. Kim Hibbard will be leaving the US on Sunday to begin her missionary career. She will travel to SE Asia to join our team currently working there. When that team leaves in two months, she will travel to Northeast India, where she will be living. Pray for her and her family as they say goodbye on Sunday, for safety as she travels, that she will become acclimated to the culture of India and SE Asia, and for a sense of satisfaction as she begins this new phase of ministry as an Old Testament Translation Consultant. She has worked for years in order to get to this point in her missionary career.
2. Continue to pray for Joshua and Barb Hedges, who with their five young daughters, have returned to their translation work in Chad, Africa, following a medical furlough. Pray as Joshua studies one of the national languages and for Barb as she homeschools the older girls. Pray for good health for all of them.
3. Linda Throop, who with her husband, Craig, and three youngest children, ministers in PNG, recently had to fly to Australia for medical tests and treatment. Preliminary reports are good. Pray that the Lord will continue to use this family as they establish a local church and work on translating the Kaulong New Testament in this isolated country.
4. Continue to pray for Debbie King who is working toward her doctorate. She has submitted the first draft of her dissertation to her committee. Pray that it will be well received with minimal or no changes necessary. Debbie hopes to graduate this spring. Ask the Lord to give her wisdom as she seeks His will for future ministry.
5. Pray for those continuing to raise support so that they might be cleared for full-time ministry with Bibles International. Anna Beth Wivell is at 48%; Troy Manning is at 57.5%; and Alex Wheeler is at 2.5%, having only recently begun having meetings. Pray also for Nate and Nancy Frost who have not seen any recent increase in their support. Ask the Lord to encourage these individuals and the Frost family, as they wait on Him to bring in their support.
6. Thank the Lord with us for good strategic planning meetings led by Dr. Hantz Bernard in Chad, Africa. He and Projects Manager Bob Thompson met with members of the committees for each of the translation projects we have there.
7. Chief Translation Consultant Glenn Kerr recently returned from almost a month of work with the Sango Bible revision committee in Central Africa Republic. Glenn reports good progress was made.