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Friday, February 17, 2017
Friday, October 23, 2015
Fall Update - Asia
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Thursday, September 10, 2015
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Remodel!!
As I said in my last update, our volunteers work hard every year and save the Center many thousands of dollars. This year one of the projects was to remodel the entry of the Mahler Building. It is where all of our guests are welcomed, the Center Director's offices are there, and GIAL (Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics) has offices and classrooms. I wish I had before pictures to show you the tile floor (that buckled up under the heat of the sun last year), the pink walls, and the couches and chairs that you sat 'in' and not 'on.' They aren't quite done with it yet, but I wanted to show the progress... It is looking AMAZING! The new flooring was laid by WAs, the wooden cabinets that will hold all of the different Bible translations where made by our WA Volunteers, the Welcome Desk was re-done, walls painted (I don't think he was a WA). See the picture below...
Great job guys!!!
Monday, March 17, 2014
Winter Update from Dallas - Wycliffe Associates
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Can God Dvu People?
Why This Question Brought the Hdi People to Tears & Redemption
For the Hdi people
of Cameroon, love is a three-letter word. But as Bible translator Lee Bramlett
pondered the Hdi word for love, it seemed that something was missing.
Lee and his wife,
Tammi, had learned that verbs in Hdi consistently end in one of three vowels.
For almost every verb, they could find forms ending in i, a, and u. But when it
came to the word for love, they could only find i and a. Why no u?
Lee asked the Hdi
translation committee, which included the most influential leaders in the
community, “Could you dvi your wife?”
“Yes,” they said.
That would mean that the wife had been loved, but the love was gone.
“Could you dva your
wife?”
“Yes,” they said.
That kind of love depended on the wife’s actions. She would be loved as long as
she remained faithful and cared for her husband well.
“Could you dvu your
wife?”
Everyone laughed.
“Of course not!” they said. “If you said that, you would have to keep loving
your wife no matter what she did, even if she never got you water, never made
you meals. Even if she committed adultery, you would be compelled to just keep
on loving her. No, we would never say dvu. It just doesn’t exist.”
Lee sat quietly for
a while, thinking about John 3:16, and then he dropped the proverbial bomb:
“Could God dvu people?”
The room grew
quiet—complete silence for three or four minutes. Then tears started to trickle
down the weathered faces of these elderly men.
Finally they
responded: “Do you know what this would mean? This would mean that God kept
loving us over and over, millennia after millennia, while all that time we
rejected His great love. He is compelled to love us, even though we have sinned
more than any people.”
Through your
partnership with Wycliffe Associates, the New Testament in Hdi is now typeset
and ready to be printed. Soon all the Hdi people will discover the true extent
of God’s love as they read passages like, “Husbands, dvu your wives, just as Christ
dvu-d the church.”
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Update Jan - April 2013
Hello Family & Friends!
Another “volunteer season” has come and gone in Dallas. We are always sad to see them go...they become like family after a while. We had several new couples & individuals this year, and a few have had to “retire” due to health issues. We had many projects around the International Linguistics Center (ILC) this year. As usual, we had many volunteers working with our Buildings & Grounds Dept, Woodshop, Boutique, Sewing, Upholstery, Dining Hall, Global Publishing Services, Archives, Hospitality, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, and other various Administrative jobs. They started building the ILC in the 70’s, so as you may have guessed, 30 years later our volunteers do A LOT of maintenance, updates, and remodels. We had several this year. Below are pictures of a few of them. I wish I had “before” pictures so you could see the HUGE difference.
Prayer Requests:
~ Pray for wisdom as I plan the rest of the year, including travel for Partnership Development this summer in AR, IN, OH, MN, WI, NE, MO, KS, and then CO in November.
~ Pray for additional prayer & financial partners. I am currently short about $1,000 per month.
~ Pray for open doors to raise awareness about WA & Bible translation.
~ Pray for complete healing with my back and neck issues.
~ We praise the Lord for a good volunteer season!
~ We praise the Lord that every season we are identifying more areas that volunteers can serve, thus accelerating Bible Translation.
Thank you all for your continued prayer and financial support.
I cannot do this ministry without each of you!
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