The Bean Family

The Bean Family

Event
11/20/16

Beans'talk December 2016

Download the Beans'talk December 2016 letter with photos here.

World premiere

Ta da! The end of September, the world premier of the JESUS film in their very own Quechua was shown in the towns of Margos and Chavinillo. Everything was organized and funded by the Jesus Film Project. Our coworkers Felipe and Shatu worked on the script, and Mark checked it and helped them polish it. It’s so encouraging to see others helping bring God’s good news to the Quechua speaking world.

Over 20 years ago we were involved in getting the movie of the whole book of Luke in a neighboring Quechua language. But this is the first ever for the Margos-Yarowilca-Lauricocha area to have a movie like this.

Standing room only, but copies for everyone

Those organizing these premiere showings were ready with lots of DVDs of the movie to sell. Mark heard that over 800 copies are now in the hands of different Quechua-speaking families. These purple sweaters identify these women as all coming from the same village church. Together they hiked in for the big occasion.

Pre-publication process paused

In September, Mark set aside his normal work to prepare for teaching in Peru and then to go down and actually teach. In October, he helped three more Quechua teams prepare their scripts for the JESUS film. Since we are currently in the States, when the time came for them to work together on the script, they fired up Skype and voilà! It was almost like working face to face! Finally, the end of October we resumed work on the pre-publication checks.

Praises and Prayer Requests

Praise: For the many Quechua speakers who now have access to the JESUS film in the Margos- Yarowilca-Lauricocha area.

Pray: for God to use it to draw people to himself.

Pray: Pray that people will share their copies of the JESUS film with others and for people in this language area to pay close attention to the life-giving words of Scripture.

Pray: for the three other versions of the JESUS film that are in production. Specifically, pray for good expressive readers for the recordings that will take place sometime early next year.

Pray: For focused work on all the pre-publication checks to get these six Bibles done. In our next letter we hope to present a graph to show our progress with the various checks. Stay tuned! Don’t you love that we have a national holiday for giving thanks! We are so thankful for SO many things. YOU, are included in our thanksgiving list.

Thank you for being a part of the team!

Mark & Patti Bean