Collins October 2013 Update

Dear and good friends,

Greetings from Wake Forest. I'm not used to writing such things, but it is true. Nan and I have relocated from our dear Ashland, Ohio to North Carolina to be near much of our family. Elisa and Yury are here and their three kids, and Nan's mom has moved into her new digs just this past week. We are five minutes from Elisa and fifteen minutes from Nan's mom. Isaac is in Atlanta, so he's now a much shorter drive away. Amalia and family are still in Hawaii, but they just came east for a visit.

Collins October 2013 Prayer Requests

Dear ones,

Greetings from rainy North Carolina.

Here are a few current prayer requests:

Collins September 2013 Update

Dear and good friends,

Greetings to you from Comitancillo in the serious part of the rainy season. Even when it’s not raining it is gray and overcast?a lot like Cleveland.

I heard from many of you related to last night’s strong tremor. It was 6.6 on the Richter scale and was felt though Guatemala, Mexico and El Salvador. It rolled down the cobblestone streets of Comitancillo for over a minute around 6:30 PM, local time, and it was followed by a half dozen aftershocks through the night. Feeling the earth move under your feet is very disorienting. Thanks to many for your prayers and concern for people affected. A number of adobe homes tumbled down, but, not here in Comitancillo, as far as I know.

Collins September 2013 Prayer Requests

Friends,

Good morning. A few prayer requests for us.

Wes will be in Guatemala until Sept. 12, Lord enabling visiting the Collins' friends and ongoing ministries. Pray that his Mam language from long ago doesn't fail him. He is signed up for a radio interview, some teaching sessions and lots of church and school visits and talks.

Collins August 2013 Prayer Requests

• Wes and Nancy really enjoyed their three weeks teaching at Parkside. Thanks to the "students" and church for treating us so well.
• Nancy's mother has bought a retirement condo in Raleigh. She will be near the Collins' oldest daughter, Elisa. Pray for the details of the move to the city after 61 years on a farm in rural Ohio. May God enable her to make good friends and great connections.

Collins July 2013 Prayer Letter

Dear and good friends, Greetings from Ashland in the midst of heavy thunderstorms. May was dry, June and July have been anything but. Nan and I have been back home since mid-March. This was soon after CLAVE Venezuela graduated its cohort of 21 students speaking 14 different languages. These people have gone back to their home villages excited about using their native languages for reading and for ministry. We

Wes Collins' LIFE Group

Location: Room 227
Start Time: Sun 7, July 2013, 12:45 p.m.
End Time: Sun 7, July 2013, 1:45 p.m.

Join Wes Collins at Parkside Church for a three-week LIFE group focused on the book of Mark. Class begins July 7 at 9:45 am in Room 227 and will also meet July 14 and July 21.

We hope you will take advantage this opportunity to meet or catch-up with Wes and Nancy while they are here.

Collins June 2013 Prayer Requests

1. Our son, Isaac, is engaged to his sweetheart, Elizabeth. May God bless them in their preparations and their desire to honor God in their wedding and in their lives.

2. Wes has completed a good (?!) draft of his book on the Maya-Mam. There are many details to tend to still. Please pray this through to completion, and hopefully publication, later this year.

Collins May 2013 Prayer Requests

1.We are working to evaluate the two Latin American ministries we are involved in, one to Latino missionary candidates and the other to speakers of indigenous languages, looking for ways to contain costs, focus the content on our unique audiences and blend the training with internet technology. This is pretty new to me.

Collins April 2013 Ministry Update

Dear and good friends,

The founding linguist of Wycliffe Bible Translators and SIL, Dr. Ken Pike, considered members of Wycliffe to be hybrids--both real missionaries and real linguists--doing things that both missionaries and linguists do. One of the things linguists do is write and present papers. I have two major papers that I'm working on. Now that we're back from Latin America for a while, I am trying to finish the rewrite of my dissertation for a wider audience. I'm a good way through this project, in fact, I have only one chapter to go, but it's the hard chapter, of course. The easier stuff is pretty much done. My task is to take a book that I wrote eight years ago for a committee of four experts, and to rewrite it for an interested, but uninitiated crowd of (hopefully) thousands. If you don't mind praying for something as mundane as the completion of an anthropological book (actually an ethnography), I would appreciate it.