The Bean Family

Download the June 2011 Beans' Talk with LOTS of photos here.

Hello again! 

Thank you for all the notes of encouragement and prayer for Mark. The doctor was pleased with what he was able to do and found good solid bone to affix the hardware to in order to make a working elbow. Time will tell how much flexibility Mark will have. The attached Beans'talk tells more of the story.

Don't miss the back page of the Beans'talk! It is full of family photos. Our oldest, Andy unexpectedly joined us. He's almost done with his C17 pilot traning. Ernie, our youngest, is the only one we missed. He's off to Senegal the end of the month with Army ROTC.

Thanks again for all your expressions of love, 

Patti for Mark too

Download the PDF of this letter with photos here.

Team review

A faithful Beans’talk reader recently asked us to clarify if we were doing Bible translation for five Quechua languages or just one. That is not a dumb question! We need to re-view occasionally what we are doing.
Yes, we are working on five different Quechua Old Testaments simultaneously. When we have our workshops two men from each of the five language areas meet to-gether to work. Below is a photo from our most recent workshop. The guys made their signs so you can tell which language area they represent. They are named from left to right in each pair, or top to bottom in the case of the Margos-Yarowilca-Lauricocha Quechua team.

Encouraging feedback

In between workshops, Pedro, who is part of the South Conchucos translation team, vis-ited a church in his provincial capital. It is a formal church with set readings of Scripture. He was asked to read the Scripture passages for the day. Pedro read in Quechua from both the Old and New Testaments. LOTS of people came up to give positive comments afterwards. Even the head of the denomina-tion came up and said: “That’s really great! You should come here every week to read.”

Right to my “heart”

After the Margos New Testament was re-corded last month, Felipe was assigned to listen to the recordings one more time to be sure that everything was recorded correctly. “This is SO good!” he exclaimed. “It goes right to my heart” (literally…to my lungs). I could just listen and listen!”