(NOTE: this was supposed to post weeks ago)
DONNA IS WELL…
We’re thankful that Donna finally seems to be completely over her bout of dengue fever. She was very sick with a fever for a week and then weak and easily tired for about another week. Whew! Thanks to all who prayed.
TRANSLATION MOVING AHEAD…
Bill just finished the first draft of Galatians. What an awesome book. Now he’s starting on Romans and doing some revision of 1-2 Timothy. We’ll have the Palawano men come up in a few weeks and work through all this material. That visit should also finish up a few final details so that we can print and distribute copies of the recently-checked book of Luke.
WEDDING PLANS!
Our daughter Bethy is getting married to Ricky Cobabe in September! Ricky’s a great guy, and were were first able to meet him when they visited here in November (actually they got engaged right here in Puerto in our gazebo.) So we’ll be traveling to California for the wedding. It will be a fairly quick trip, but Donna will go a little ahead, to help with pre-wedding details. Bill will continue working on translation here and fly about a week before the wedding. We’re excited about this special event, and the chance to see Elisa and Chris and our grandson Max, who will be 7 months old by then.
Bill is also planning to participate in the 7th ICLL (International Congress on Language Learning) in Colorado Springs at the end of September, just before we return to the Philippines. Since 2002, he’s been the NTM representative on the steering committee for this event which helps to further the spread of the gospel by training missionary language learning consultants.
Unless another place opens up, it looks like we can stay with Donna’s sister while we’re in the USA. But we need a car to use while we’re there (Aug 22 through Oct 4), so we’re praying about that.
SO PLEASE PRAY WITH US…
- health and strength
- continued progress in the translation
- provision for travel and workshop costs
- a car to use while we’re in the USA
- all the details for the wedding to come together
Reaching Palawanos together with you,
-Bill and Donna
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