| BIRTHDAYS, GUESTS, TRAVELS & MEETINGS. That about sums things up around here lately! We have enjoyed celebrating 5 birthdays in 6 weeks as Kirsten turned 13, Elizabeth 22, Pam (you'll have to guess), Jonathan 25 and Daniel 9! This is the time of year when I have to be good at my math skills when people ask the ages of my kids!
It is a special treat to have Elizabeth living in Hungary now, so we could celebrate and eat a cake together on the same continent. She and Stephen have found a great little apartment in Pecs, Hungary, two hours by car south of us and we enjoyed visiting them for the day there recently. They are diligently studying the Hungarian language as well as jumping into ministry by meeting people, planning writing projects and updating www.romabibleunion.org.
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| | We've hosted guests recently from the US, Slovenia, Belarus and Croatia, including a very encouraging visit from a foundation in the US which funds Bible translation work. We have put in a grant request for $360,000 for 3 years of translation work in 5 Roma dialects. Would you pray that, if the Lord wills, this foundation would be able to fund that? Wouldn't that be cool!
We enjoyed the week-long, annual SHARE Education Conference at a hotel about an hour away in Hungary. This is always a great week for the kids to be with other missionary kids and for Pam and me to learn a ton about educating and parenting our kids overseas.
Matthew and I will be heading to the Netherlands for the biennial meeting of a large group of missionaries involved in ministries which use media and are involved in translating and distributing Scripture and biblical teaching materials. Matthew will receive training for using digital animation in ministry. I will be involved in learning more about best practices for encouraging people to use Scriptures that have been translated into minority languages (in our context, Roma dialects). It will also be a time to network with other like-minded workers to see how we can work together in this exciting task of global Bible translation and distribution.
Then as a family we will attend the biennial Pioneers conference for workers from all over this region. This will be a time of teaching, networking and refreshment, also located an hour from home here in Hungary. Then I head to Orlando for strategic planning meetings with unfoldingWord, the joint project we are in for developing open-source Bible translation & Bible study materials.
Thank you for your prayers for us. You are a very important part of this team!
In Christ,
Todd & Pamala
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| | Donations can be sent to:
Pioneers, 10123 William Carey Dr., Orlando, FL 32832
Or made online at:
http://www.pioneers.org/give
To give for our missionary support, please designate for account 110250 "Todd & Pamala Price".
To give for Roma Bible translation projects, please designate for account 150786 "Roma Bible Society".
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