There’s a problem with translation ministry. Sometimes it’s hard to write a fresh-sounding update since it takes so long to get a lengthy book like Luke (1,150 verses, to be exact) done! So it seems like we’re doing the same thing… for weeks at a time. Nothing “new” to tell you.

And in a sense, we are doing the same thing: translating. Day after day. Verse after verse after verse.

So we need prayer for perseverance, patience, a high level of concentration. We need to stick at it, doing the “same old thing” day after day, week after week.

But in another sense, each day brings new challenges…

How to translate difficult concepts like…

  …deny yourself?

  …take up your cross and follow Christ?

What do you do when even the scholars argue over the meaning of a Greek word?

So we also need prayer for the fresh, new and unexpected challenges that turn up almost every time we sit down to work. We need wisdom and insight from the Hold Spirit in order to get the job done.

God’s Word… the most important message in the universe. So needed, so full of hope. So we take the job pretty seriously!