Collins Family May 2020 Prayer Requests

Pray for the Mam people and the world’s minorities who often are not qualified to contend with pandemics like the Coronavirus. May God have mercy on His people on the frontlines.

Collins Family April 2020 Prayer Requests

*Nancy and I have cancelled a trip to North Greenville University to talk about linguistics and Bible translation. I really enjoy that, but all “non essential” travel is being carefully scrutinized by Wycliffe.

*The Collinses are delighted that Parkside has agreed to partner with LAMP, a literacy and Scripture-promotion organization among the Mam of Guatemala. It is a one-year project aimed at preparing the local churches and the broader community for the publication of the whole Bible in Maya-Mam. Pray for good progress and open hearts.

Collins Family March 2020 Prayer Requests

Pray for Wes and Nancy in mid-March as they visit language and linguistic classes at North Greenville University to talk to students about considering cross-cultural ministry once they graduate. A lot has changed in missions over time, but much stays the same.

Collins Family February 2020 Prayer Requests

Pray for Wes as he works on a book on the history of writing Maya-Mam. It is an intriguing topic and we pray that the book would help build the prestige of that minority language, which we trust will encourage reading and writing.

Collins Family: 2019 in Retrospect

Friends,

Here is our retrospect for 2019.

Blessings to all and May God bless your year 2020.

Wes and Nancy Collins

Collins Family May 2019 Prayer Requests

Ministry in Venezuela is very difficult for foreigners due to restrictions on travel and currency exchange. Pray for faithful Christian leaders who love the Lord and their country as they continue to move forward with Bible translation, Christian ministry and relief. Students as we are having challenges traveling abroad for training and exchanging local currency.

Thanks.

Wes

Collins Family April 2019 Prayer Requests

Pray for indigenous leadership in Christian movements around the world. Whereas “nationals” have long been helpers and interpreters for their Western colleagues, more and more ministry leadership and vision casting falls to them. Pray for God’s Spirit to move and teach them and that relationships would be solid and God-honoring.

Best,

Wes

Collins Family March 2019 Prayer Requests

Over the last years many people have been trained for cross-cultural ministry to serve in the Americas and around the world. Pray that local churches would take on the challenge of funding and continuing to equip young people and families to partner with them for sake of God’s Kingdom.

Collins Family February 2019 Prayer Requests

1. Pray for Wes as he spends most of February in Peru training indigenous Bible translators in linguistics skills to help them in their ministries. There will be 15 students and several TA’s.

2. Pray for continued progress and blessing for the group of 6 Mam men and women and several gringos working on Old Testament translation.

Collins Family: 2018 in Retrospect

Friends,

Greetings to you from North Carolina. Attached here is our 2018 in Retrospect newsletter. 

Blessings to all and happy new year.

Wes and Nancy Collins