Collins Family November 2014 Prayer Requests

Greetings from North Carolina.

Here are two prayer requests from us.

• Wes will be in Dallas for a series of meetings Novemeber 7-8 related to linguistic and translation training in the Americas. Wycliffe has more opportunities than available faculty and staff to fill the needs. Pray for good ideas and that we are able to provide training for both native Spanish and indigenous-language speaking students who are working hard at Old Testament translation and literacy.

The Navajo

Dear and good friends,

Greetings to you all from Wake Forest. I don't know whether to complain about lack of fall colors down south, or to gloat in our 80 degree temperatures. You decide.

Several people sent me the following story from the New York Times about upcoming tribal elections among the Navajo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/us/a-presidential-candidate-in-navajo-nation-protests-a-language-requirement.html?emc=edit_th_20140927&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=15409743

Collins Family October 2014 Prayer Requests

Dear Friends,

Here are two prayer requests for us:

• Pray for Samuel and the Mam team working on Old Testament translation. They will meet for two weeks with Wycliffe consultants starting mid-October doing exegetical checking in the book of Isaiah.

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.