Collins Family September 2014 Prayer Requests

Hi friends,

Praise God that Wes just returned from Guatemala where he helped celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the dedication of the Mam New Testament. There were many signs of robust language use and enthusiasm. Pray that this would translate into the reading of and obedience to the Word of God.

Missions Moment with Wes & Nancy Collins

Location: Room 202
Start Time: Sun 31, Aug. 2014, 12:45 p.m.
End Time: Sun 31, Aug. 2014, 1:45 p.m.

Join Parkside missionaries Wes & Nancy Collins for an update on their work with Wycliffe Bible Translators doing linguistics training of nationals in Peru and Guatemala. They will be in Room 202 on Sunday, August 31 at 9:45 am.

You may also greet Wes & Nancy at the Missions table in the Commons.

Collins Family 2014 Summer Update

Dear and good friends,

Greetings from back in North Carolina, our home away from home. Actually, home is sort of a philosophical question for Nan and me—and even more so for the kids than for us. They have each established their own homes—Amalia and Kyle in Hawaii, Isaac and Elizabeth in Atlanta and Elisa and Yury here in Wake Forest. But for us, Wake Forest is more of an address where our mail accumulates than a place where we feel at home. As Buckeyes, we will never be Tarheels, but it’s not so bad, and the weather is lovely. And being in the South is kind of like learning another language and culture, something that we’ve done before.

Collins Family August 2014 Prayer Requests

Greetings from back in North Carolina.

I got back from Peru just a week ago.

Here are several prayer requests for August.

Collins Family July 2014 Prayer Requests

Here are some prayer requests for July:

CILTA, a training program in linguistics for Latino missionary candidates finishes first semester on July 11. We have been there since mid-May. Pray that the students have a good break as they take a month off and gear up for classes until December. May God help them in their studies and lead them into the ministry of His choice as Bible translators or literacy workers.

Nan and Wes plan to visit newlyweds Isaac and Elizabeth over the "long weekend" of July 18-21.  Pray for Isaac and Elizabeth's marriage and their faithfulness to Christ.

Thanks much.

Wes

Collins Special Prayer Request

Dear and good friends,

Warmest greetings to you from Lima. Nan and I are well.

We heard from a number of Comitecos today that our dear friend Pedro Temaj passed away last night. I am including some recent photos of Pedro taken by Karen Vaters who also knew him well.

Pedro was the first person to accept us in Comitancillo when we moved there in March, 1980. Elisa was five months old. Pedro passed the word around that Nancy and I were "OK." This opened up a space for us to live and to work, and I have always been grateful to God for him. Pedro was considered old when we met him. I figure that he was somewhere over 90 years old when he died, perhaps a considerable amount over 90.

Collins Family June 2014 Prayer Requests

Hi friends,

Wes and Nancy Collins are in Lima where Wes is teaching 18 missionary candidates from seven countries. Pray for the students to learn well and enthusiastically.

Pray for community leaders in rural Venezuela who attended a workshop on the importance of keeping their language going for the purposes of identity, wholeness and outreach. May they not be overwhelmed. They have lots of decisions and opportunties before them.

Collins Family May 2014 Update

Dear and good friends,

Greetings from Wake Forest. A little weather lesson. In Ohio we have virtually no autumn. It goes from late summer to winter in a matter of days. The colors are wonderful--but they are short-lived and usually appreciated only under a bed of thick frost, snow or ice. Wake Forest, on the other hand, has no spring. It goes directly from winter to summer. This week it has been in the mid-90's and has been for days. Nancy enjoys not running the air conditioner. She feels that breezes and natural air temperatures are good for the mind and body. So sometimes I swelter, but for a good cause.

We won't be hot for long. I just got back from three weeks in Venezuela's southernmost state--Amazonas--just a few degrees latitude north of the equator, and 95 degrees pretty much every day, and Nan and I leave in the morning for two months in Peru. Peru is in the southern hemisphere, so it's heading toward winter, not with sledding and snowmen, but quite gray and cool nonetheless.

Collins Family May 2014 Prayer Requests

Dear ones,

Here are a few prayer requests for us for May.

Wes will be in Venezuela from April 21 to May 9 working with local indigenous leaders about plans for promoting the use of native language New Testaments and the translation of the Old Testament into these same languages. These plans are complicated by the inroads of Spanish which many speak, but few speak well. Pray that people would see the value of the Scriptures in their native languages.

Collins Family March/April 2014 Update

Dear Ones,

Greetings to you all from North Carolina. It has been a busy time for us. Nan and I and our three children (and two of our four grandchildren) all converged on a small beach town in Costa Rica for Isaac and Elizabeth's wedding on February 21. Planning a destination wedding is a bit of a shot in the dark, not having been to the site where the event would take place, but things worked admirably.

We all met up at the right time at the right spot and the wedding was beautiful. The ceremony was in the late afternoon as the sun was descending and howler monkeys ranted their approval from the trees. We overlooked miles of the Pacific beach, and soon after the declaration of man and wife, the sun slipped beneath the horizon. It was idyllic. I'm attaching a couple of pictures.