The Collins Family

Download the Retrospect PDF with photos here.

Friends, Greetings from central Colombia. I'm attaching our annual Retrospect, and I hope it brings you up to date with what last year was like for us--now that we're full tilt into the new year.

For those who want to skip the news and go to pictures of the kids and grandkids, they are on the last three pages.

One of our students almost drowned yesterday, but is now doing well. She got into fast moving water at the river and panicked, and then possibly had a reaction to not enough sugar in her blood, then she hit her head and scared herself and the rest of us. I am reminded how far we are from anywhere and I ask for your prayers to sustain this whole enterprise.

Nancy and I head back to Colombia for two more months of CLAVE, a program where we help train speakers of Indian languages in skills for promoting reading and publishing in their languages. Better readers can better read and understand the Scriptures, and this is good for individuals, the Church, and the community at large. Pray that they would learn new skills for ministry.

Indians aren't used to intense academic study. CLAVE is very challenging for many of our students. Pray that God would give them comfort and confidence in their studies.

We have 11 professors scheduled to land in Bogota on January 2 and to head to the training site on the 3rd. Students--all from Colombia and Venezuela--start classes on Jan 6. May God give us all safety in travel and good attitudes while living in close quarters.

Thanks for your prayers and interest.

Blessings,

Wes