Seed Company Prayer for Thursday
The Foothills team is working in a difficult situation where expatriate teams have been unable to succeed. A young mother-tongue translator hopes to provide scriptures for his people. The main goal is to translate and publish the New Testament along with some Old Testament portions. A young Christian new to his faith, has felt God's call on his life to translate the Scriptures for his people.
The Foothills people have been closed to the Gospel in the past. There is a national missionary that has been working there for a while. Now, there are around 150 Foothills Christians. One couple finished a literacy primer geared for people who are literate in Spanish but they need help in reading Foothills. Pray that review work on the primer will reveal any errors or needed changes.
- Pray that translator’s families can work out suitable arrangements so their families do no suffer. The couple has done that and it is working well even though the husband is becoming an important figure in their society.
- Translating Acts and the recently improved relations in the Foothills community has made the team more aware of how God is moving among them. They feel the Holy Spirit’s guidance as they open their homes to people, like the early church. Indeed, they realize that they themselves are God’s church and that the Lord is with them, so that they don’t need foreign missionaries to have a relationship with Him. They also recognize more keenly that God listens to and answers their prayers.