Dear partners in the mission.
Thank you again for your prayers and support of our work with the Lele in West Africa. Our latest update is attached. It is hard to be away from the village right now as we get news from the field.
Please pray for Pierre and his family at this time as his mother just passed away about a week ago. Praise God with us for all the good ways Pierre’s mother and father affected their children for Gods kingdom.
As we move into the new year, we are planning on taking a trip to visit our friends in the village. We are hoping to work with Pastor Jonas to correct several more chapters of the Bible while there. Also, we hope to do some village comprehension checking and have several portions of text consultant checked in late April, when our Bible consultant will be in the capital of the country. This is all part of moving more Bible books closer to publication in the next few years.
Your prayers and contributions are greatly appreciated as we make these plans and other plans related to reaching the Lele. As we have been mentioning, our finances have been strained the last few months and planning a trip to the field will be another cost we don’t currently have the funds for. So please keep this in your prayers as well.
Pray that all your gifts and all our combined efforts will be for expanding God’s kingdom among the Lele people—that they will all hear the good news of the coming of Jesus Christ that we all remember during this Christmas season.
Thank you for being faithful in your prayers and support of this ministry.
May God bless you as you continue to serve Him.
Marc and Tina Gebhard
PBT – West Africa Branch
Please do not post information from this update on the internet or in other mass communication media without our permission.
Email: marc.gebhard@pbti.org
Phone: 214-971-2045 (Until December 2018)
Easy online donations:
www.pioneerbible.org/MarcAndTinaGebhard
You may also send personal mail and donations to:
PBT-Gebhard
P.O. Box 10184
Terre Haute, IN 47801