Daily Prayer: the Huichol people of Mexico
"Help us so that we can have the Old Testament," wrote the Huichol believers in April of 2006. "We are happy that we have God's Word (the New Testament) in our language. We have read it and study it with faith. We also know that Christ speaks to us in the Scriptures, but we don't have it all in our language. We're writing to ask you. Help us so that we can have the Old Testament. We are willing to do the work." That letter and the continued passion of the Huichol believers to obey God in spite of ongoing persecution, have been at the heart of the Huichol Old Testament Project from the start.
There are 30 Huichol churches throughout West Central Mexico. Huichol evangelists actively seek out new groups to share God's love with. Discipleship is going strong. And trained Huichol translators that helped finish the New Testament are ready to translate the Old Testament.
- At workshops earlier this year the team received further training in translation and editing using the computer. Now they’re working on translating Genesis, but it’s also harvesting time. Pray they’ll be able to balance their time well between translating and keeping their crops tended.
- Pray for wisdom as the translators seek to promote literacy and Scripture use in this traditionally oral culture.