Prayer Request 2-10-2010    

1. BI Director Dr. Hantz Bernard and projects manager Bob Thompson are in Chad, Africa. Pray for the six OT projects and two NT projects there. Loss of key people, including the death of our national coordinator, has severely impacted the translation work. Pray that these men will be an encouragement to those involved in the work there.
2. Continue to pray for needs in the country of Haiti. We are still trying to ship the comfort and witness brochures there. The first skid of brochures is scheduled to be flown there this coming weekend. Pray that these materials will get into the hands of the people for whom they are intended.
3. Continue to pray for BMM missionaries Tim and Barb Whatley as they minister to people in the Urubamba Valley of Peru, where heavy rains have caused flooding. Many people have lost everything they own. Tim overseas the translation of the Quechua New Testament, along with many other ministries there.
4. Pray for a large group of missionaries and volunteers working in SE Asia for the next two months. The translation team is headed up by Ross and Cathy Hodsdon and the literacy team is headed up by Dr. Connie Champeon. Consultant-in-training Anna Beth Wivell will be working with the Hodsdons.
5. Pray for chief translation consultant Glenn Kerr who is en route to Central African Republic to work with the translation committee for the Sango Bible. He plans to work in CAR for the next three weeks. Pray that they’ll be able to accomplish much while Glenn is there.
6. Chief language consultant Troy Manning is in India where he met with those involved with our translation projects. Pray for him as he travels home at the beginning of next week.
7. Praise the Lord with us that Kim Hibbard has now had 100% of her estimated support needs met. She will be commissioned for missionary service by her church in Port St. Lucie, Florida, on Feb. 28. Pray that the Lord would make her future steps clear to her.
8. Pray for others who are continuing to raise support for full time ministry with Bibles International: Nathan and Nancy Frost, Troy Manning, Alex Wheeler, and Anna Beth Wivell. Ask the Lord to give them safety as they travel, as well as a team of believers who are willing to support them in their work.
9. Continue to pray for Joshua and Barb Hedges and their five children as they settle back into the work in Chad, Africa.
10. Craig and Linda Throop and their three youngest children are settling back into their work in Papua New Guinea. Pray for them as they resume work on the Kaulong New Testament along with their other ministries.
11. Praise the Lord with us that Jason Allen, 13 year old son of computer consultant James Allen, came through his bone marrow biopsy without difficulties. Tests indicated no problems.
12. Eric Elmer, projects coordinator for Asia and the Pacific, will be leaving on Sunday for a trip to SE Asia, where he will research the possibility of taking on new translation projects.
13. Thank the Lord with us for the 1500-2000 people who attended the dedication of the Chiru New Testament in NE India on January 29. Pray that the Chiru people will use this Scripture for witnessing and spiritual growth.
14. Pray for those who are continuing their education in order to join our ministry here at BI. Pray especially for Debbie King who is scheduled to graduate this spring and is trying to complete her doctoral dissertation.

Jan 28, 2010 Requests

1. Pray for projects manager Bob Thompson, who is in India. He is scheduled to speak at the dedication of the Chiru New Testament in India this evening (our time) and is not feeling well. (The part of India where he is is 10 ½ hours ahead of our time.) He has a respiratory infection. Pray the Lord will sustain him, giving him the strength of body and voice he will need for this message. Ask the Lord to give Him strength for the remainder of his trip as well. After leaving India, he is scheduled to go on to Chad, Africa.
2. Baptist Mid-Missions missionaries Tim and Barb Whatley are asking for prayer for people to whom they minister in Peru. Heavy and continuous rains have caused flooding in the Urubamba valley, where they live and work. Thousands of people have been left homeless, and many people have lost everything they own. Tim and Barb are housing people in their home. If the flooding continues, they may have to move some families into the church with which they work. Baptist Mid-Missions will be ministering to these people through their World Relief Fund. Pray for Tim as he overseas the translation of the Quechua New Testament, along with many other ministries there. Pray for those who have been left homeless and/or have lost most of their possessions.
3. Praise the Lord that our director, Dr. Hantz Bernard, arrived safely back in the US last night. The trip was an emotional one for him, but he is praising the Lord for so many evidences of His protection over His children. Of the 20 churches affiliated with Baptist Mid-Missions’ work there, only one was destroyed. Of the many families in those churches, few of them lost loved ones. Pray for comfort for those who did lose loved ones.
4. Pray with us as Dr. Bernard continues to strategize, along with his Haitian brethren, the most effective way to aid the country and its people in the future. There is much need for wisdom and discernment as they look toward future needs of people related to them in ministry and then as they reach out to those outside the household of faith.
5. Pray for retired BMM missionary Dr. Brinson McGowen and for Dr. Philippe, a Haitian doctor, as they seek to meet some of the medical needs of the people through the former BMM hospital in the Jacmel area of Haiti. Pray for strength for these men, and for Dr. McGowen’s wife, Carol, who is a retired nurse, as they seek to be the hands and feet of Christ in a country that is suffering so much.
6. Pray that we will find a way to ship the comfort and witness brochures printed especially for this occasion, to our Haitian Baptist pastors. The brochures were created for this time of disaster. Pray that they will be greatly used of the Lord once they arrive in that country.
7. BI founder Dr. Paul Versluis is still in need of prayer, following his hospitalization in Calcutta, India. He and his wife, Genella, are home recuperating at the present time, after a brief hospitalization for Dr. Versluis after he returned to the US. Pray the Lord will give them both complete recovery if that would please Him.