Category: prayer requests

Everyone, Would you pray: – for tomorrow’s (Saturday 10/22) gathering. 20-50 pastors, deacons, and other Christians will be coming to us to try to learn about how a community can check their own Bible translation. We will be giving some brief training and then splitting into groups to search through an intentionally error-filled translation of… Continue reading Wrights’ prayers for 10/22/2022

Everyone, Would you pray: We could check the whole book of Genesis. Remember how we were checking Genesis 1-9? I don’t either… :=) We got started the first morning and the local team got looking around and thinking. We have 6-7 translators, 6 consultants in training (CiTs), and two consultants… Let’s split into two teams.… Continue reading Wrights’ prayers for 10/18/2022

I’m headed to the airport now (10:30 central) and would appreciate prayers that all the paperwork would be accepted here (and at every leg). Thank you Benjamin 

but we’re going anyway<!– Benjamin leaves for Nigeria tomorrow. We shared through our prayer update list (sign up here) recently that the Nigerian embassies worldwide (at least in the three countries we’re coming from for this trip) were out of the visa stamps we needed. They have yet to arrive, so we’re using the alternate… Continue reading We didn’t get our visas

Everyone, Would you pray: – that our visas would come through. Our whole teams’ paperwork is at a company in DC that facilitates rapid visas (the other way is for us all to go there in person ourselves) but the embassy has run out of visa stamps. Pray they arrive at the embassy in time… Continue reading Wrights’ prayers for 09/28/2022

Everyone, Would you pray: – for Benjamin’s cohort of consultants in training as they check and comment on Genesis 3 for the Ron team. Here’s the first draft of the earliest gospel message: I wa kin ti ha’ ti wei na saa yuti, ha hu mbori, saa ti gung ama hu gung amet hwak. Yis… Continue reading Wrights’ prayers for 08/24/2022

Benjamin has his plate full these days. On the unfoldingWord side, he’s reviewing the work of several new content writers. That has him looking at Ecclesiastes, Job, and Isaiah. This week (Aug 8-13) Benjamin also has meetings with the unfoldingWord team in Orlando. Pray for a fruitful time of focusing vision, hammering out issues that can… Continue reading Ruth, Jonah, Ecclesiastes, Job, Isaiah