Want to encourage our translators at their graduation from VISTA?

Send a card / note to 4321 Baldwin St, Grand Prairie, TX, 75052 by the end of September to be hand carried to Vanuatu
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E-mail Angie with a note or card you have created on your computer with Word, etc. and we will compile them onto a flash drive to be given to each translator.

Our 15 translators have worked 4 long years to come to this day and your words of affirmation could be just the boost they need as they transition to translating more independently from their own villages. Thank you so much for your love, support, and prayers for our family and the work in Vanuatu!

School has started and there are no triple digit temps in the forecast. I think summer is officially over!

Matt has had a pretty normal month, which is a nice break in between the erratic nature of Summer and the craziness that will be our Fall. He’s been communicating with teammates and processing reimbursements and payroll. He continues to pray with some teammates for the islands (PNG, Vanuatu, etc) on Monday afternoons and now is also praying with others who are on remote assignment on Tuesday mornings. We leave in a week for his class reunion in Illinois and he leaves for Vanuatu in just a month!

The Global Partnerships division is busy helping new global teammates move forward in their training and planning a few upcoming trips. This month I spent some time using Google Translate to get a rough draft of some documents for one of our global partners. It kept telling me that the name of this school they attended was named Wizard something or another. I laughed and tried again. Same result. Then I realized the name of the school in that language was Wizard and I started getting concerned…until I looked up the school and found out it was a school that taught languages, ie you are a wiz at speaking English! NOT a man who practices magic. And this is why we can’t just use Google Translate to translate the Bible! 🙂

Please join us in prayer this month:

~ School is going well and Lauren made the Jr High volleyball team! Thank you for praying for our kids.

~ Our annual strategic planning meetings were SO good…and so tiring! Now we’re busy putting into place the decisions we made as a team. Please pray for all of Pioneer Bible Translators as we follow God’s lead.

~ Our family’s upcoming travels: Sept 13-16 Pittsfield, IL; Oct 4-7 Branson, MO; Oct 8 Matt leaves for Vanuatu.

Thank you for your prayers and support of our family and ministry. We couldn’t do this without you!

Angie (for Matt and the kids, too)