On to Papua New Guinea

Tonight I head back to Papua New Guinea for another short stint of translating. I would appreciate your prayers for this trip. I've listed a number of things you can be praying for:

1. We are working on both John and Luke. Pray that we have unity among the men working on this with me. Pray also for God's wisdom as we translate. There are number of very difficult concepts to translate in John. Pray that we can find just the right way to state these.

2. Pray for good health for all involved in the translation.

3. Pray for good weather both for my 15 hour boat ride and for the time in the village. I need lots of sunshine on our solar panels to keep the 12 volt batteries charged that I depend on for powering my computer. Pray that my computer works well.

4. Pray for Roxanne and PJ. Roxanne is looking for a house for us. Pray that something will come up while I am gone.

5. Pray that these two books will have an impact on those working on the translation.

6. I will be attempting to do some checking of other books as well in the evenings. Pray that we can find any problems in these books at this point.

7. I've learned that our outboard motor is having trouble. This could limit who I can get to work from other villages. Pray we can get it going.

That's it for the moment. The plan is to begin translating on Monday September 28 on Luke. We will work 1 week on Luke, then a week on John, then back to Luke and finally a last week on John. We want to see about half of John completed and another 6 chapters of Luke.