Category: Newsletters Archive

Equipping the church to lead In the middle of the workshop last month, Rev. Ben introduced me to an interesting man. This man had come to the city looking for Rev. Ben because he’d heard about how the Alis i Ron are owning their own Bible translation project as a community–and he wanted the same… Continue reading Local ownership

Sometimes we don’t do the best at getting these out during “lulls” between Benjamin’s trips but here’s some prayer points for this week: – Home school has resumed! – Pray for recovery for Rev. Ben and 2 of the Ron community members who were in a car accident – the SUV rolled, but landed upright… Continue reading Wrights’ prayers 8/23/23

A man raised his hand, “We really appreciate these demonstrations in English, but what about doing it in our language?”   I replied, “That’s a great idea. You and who?” *Everyone laughs* A few moments later he and another man were in front of the room doing a demonstration of one of the translation testing… Continue reading A Trainer’s Happy Place

Thank you all for your prayers for Benjamin and our family as he traveled to meetings in Turkey with the Russian team. Everything went smoothly and he is back home now. The meetings were very profitable and positive. It was great for members of our geographically distributed American team to meet the even more geographically… Continue reading Profitable Trip, Safe Return

Travel:Last week Benjamin “got to” run Zoom for our twice annual all-staff meetings in Orlando. The first day I set the small group rooms to automatically kick people out after a couple of minutes, because I thought that was what the speaker’s schedule said. It was actually supposed to be 15-20 minutes of one-on-one time… Continue reading Travel, Travel, but No Move Yet

Shortly after arriving in Dallas, Benjamin had a meeting with part of the team of Russian speakers that he’ll be working with for the next few years. Based on that meeting, everything looks like a go for us to move to Ukraine as soon as all the logistics get worked out. UPDATE Feb 17: Obviously we are waiting… Continue reading Where in the World are the Wrights Wandering?