The Book You Are Writing

"You ought to live holy and godly lives." 2 Peter 3:11

The only way to have a stainless and beautiful year at its close--is to keep the days, as they pass, all pure and sweet, with the loveliness of holy, useful living.

It is thus, in little days--that our years come to us. We have but the one small fragment to fill and beautify at a time.

The year is a book, and for each day--one fair white page is opened before us.

And we are artists, whose duty it is to put something beautiful on the page.

Or we are poets, and are to write some lovely thought, some radiant sentence, on each leaf as it lies open before us.

"That we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness." 1 Timothy 2:2


(From Grace Gems)

March 2010 Update and Prayer Requests

Wow! Can we say busy? This “volunteer season” (Oct 09—March 10) has seen a lot of changes; new volunteers, and the highest number of volunteers in several years. We have had well over 200 volunteers, plus several groups. In January we had a church group from Geneva, NE for a week (some stayed 2 weeks). Just this week we had over 20 Duncanville High School Students on the campus completing their community service hours, and next weekend we have a group from the Chinese Church of Arlington coming to volunteer. They asked me to speak at their missions conference a few weeks ago and decided to set up a time to volunteer and get their congregation exposed to Bible translation at the same time.

While things are starting to wind down with volunteers a little bit, I will be staying busy for a few months longer. April 7-9 I will go to Orlando, FL for a few days of meetings with Wycliffe Associates. April 10-24 I will be going through an intensive training course with Wycliffe USA (in Orlando), and then vacation April 25-May 2 (in Orlando & Jax– yea!) I will come back to Dallas for a week or two, and then head out again for 2-3 weeks on a Partnership Development trip (raising support and prayer partners). Part of that time I will be in Kansas City, so if you would like to get together while I am there call or email me and we can set up a time!

This is the “campus” I work on. It is called the International

Linguistic Center (ILC).

There are about 700 people that work here year-around. The sole purpose of every

organization on this campus is to support Bible translation in over 70 countries. The linguists are trained here, the finance

offices are here, HR/personnel offices are here, typesetting,

editing, publishing, counseling, IT, apartments for retired

missionaries, and much more...

Praise and Prayer:

1. Praise—I STILL love what I am doing with WA, and it continues to grow & stretch me.

2. Praise—I really like Dallas and I think I have finally found a church to be a part of.

3. Prayer—Raising financial and prayer support.

4. Prayer—For my training and meetings in Orlando, FL next month.(and a week of vacation! )

5. Prayer—That the Lord would continue to open doors to partner with other cultures (like the Chinese Church, WA’s growing Hispanic and African volunteer population).

Information on how you can support financially ~

By Mail: Make check or money order out to Wycliffe Associates and put my name & fund code M08730 in the notes field. Mail to Wycliffe Associates; P.O. Box 620143, Orlando, Florida, 32862

Online: www.wycliffeassociates.org\links\donatenow. Under “program” select “other,” fill in my name & M08730.