February 2009
Dear friends and family,
Two years ago our Pioneer Bible Translators team began praying for a long-range goal of recruiting 200 of the right new missionaries for our team. We project that if we have 385 adults on our team by the end of 2012 we will be able to begin projects to meet all of the translation needs identified in our current fields and start four new fields. We prayed this last year that God would help us end the year with 231 adults on our team to keep the pace needed to achieve our six year goal. God enabled us to exceed that goal by giving us 39 new recruits during 2008, bringing us to a total of 233 teammates, which is a growth rate of over 12 percent.
An old Arkansas fisherman once said, “If you want to catch bass, you have to go where the bass are.” In order to meet up with potential new missionaries, we need to go where they are. Some of them are in churches around the country. Many of them attend the National Missionary Convention or Perspectives courses. Many of them are in Christian Colleges, Seminaries, and Campus Ministries. So, we go to those places to meet them and share with them PBT’s vision of seeing lives transformed through God’s Word in every language.
This last month 2 of my co-workers, Richard Chowning and Josi Ingram, and I were privileged to visit the campuses of St. Louis Christian College and Harding University Graduate School of Religion to challenge people to be involved in Bible translation. Other PBT co-workers made similar recruiting visits to Lincoln Christian College, Auburn University, Manhattan Christian College, Ozark Christian College, Cincinnati Christian University, Purdue Campus House, Northwest Christian University, and Dallas Christian College. Please pray with us that by the end of 2009 we will be growing at 13 percent and end the year with 261 teammates working together to disciple the Bible-less peoples of the world!
We also would appreciate your prayers for our up-coming ministry opportunities. The PBT GROUNDBREAKING for our new International Service Center happens on March 7 at 10:00 a.m. (Hope you can come!) Pray for Nathan as he leaves on March 8 for a 3 week trip to Papua New Guinea to field test Bible translation software. I am scheduled to speak at twelve Perspectives courses, beginning March 9. (My schedule is below, so you can be praying for me.)
In the summer we are planning to take a ministry team back to Papua New Guinea to the Aruamu people. I recently had a long Skype-call with Steven Dazim, the coordinator of the Aruamu translation project, when he was in town. He asked me to try to find a “good preacher” who could go to PNG with us this summer to preach at an Evangelistic Crusade for 4 nights. Would you please pray with us that God would bring someone to serve Him and the Aruamus in this way?
If YOU have this gifting and would be willing to serve in this way on this mission trip, or if you know of someone who would, please call me! (214-205-7060)
“If you want to catch bass, you have to go where the bass are!”
Your fellow “fishers of men,”
Nathan and Marsha Miles
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