Bethel Baptist Church Kalamazoo

It has been a while since I wrote. No excuses it just has been. I thank the Lord for this medio of communication email and that we can take advantage of it. Your prayers are greatly needed and appreciated. For the last 3 weeks we have had a Crown College student Nathan Thomas with us. It was a blessing to spend time with him and allow him to see the type of ministry we have first hand. We both had a first experience in that one Sunday he preached for the first time with a translator and I translated for the first time. Over all it went well.

The brethern in Vilcas continue to attend faithfully and seem to be making some steps forward in their walk with the Lord. However there is a very delicate situation that I ask prayer for. I do not feel liberty to share details at this time, but do ask that you pray. The Lord knows the details.

Please pray for my oldest daughter Rebekah, Wednesday she will be teaching for the first time. Not only will this be her first time to teach a BIble lesson, she will be doing so in sign language. She has chose the story of David and Goliath although it is well know I am sure that the Lord will use this opportunity to teach her something and also teach the deaf. It is a joy to see her desire to learn more sign language and use what she is learning for the Glory of the Lord.

We continue to experience problems with the airplane, however, it seems that this time it is a fuel contamination problem. We are not sure what to do at this point or how to get good fuel. Please pray that the Lord would give wisdom in all the decision making process concerning the aviation ministry.

Once again your prayers are invaluable to the ministry here. Please continue to keep us before the thrown of grace.

Saved to Serve,

Richard DeVall and family

I Thess. 5:24

Baptist Pioneer Mission
P.O. Box 5114
Kincheloe, MI. 49788
906-495-5203

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by Katie Crigger

July 2009 Wyant Prayer Letter

July 17, 2009 in Gordon and Cindy Wyant by Katie Crigger

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Greetings from Michigan,

I have just returned from Chad Africa after 12 days of experiences that are difficult to convey. However let me say that this trip helped me see the importance of literacy training in conjunction with Bible translation.

Three of us went to Chad via Paris. Once in Chad we caught a ride with MAF to Sahr. After 2 1/2 hours in a small mission airplane we arrived at our translation center for Chad. Two of my colleagues taught a literacy class for five days with the intention of establishing a national literacy coordinator. Meanwhile I interviewed two of our office workers who are manually inputting,digitally, on a computer all of our 8 language translation projects.

I was able to visit and encourage Mrs. Ouya Bongo the wife of the national translator and language consultant who drowned early this year. She still has her children even though the culture allows the husband’s family the right to remove the children. Her needs are simple yet profound if you do not have an income source. After visiting we went to a Francophone church and enjoyed a sweet African worship service.

Chad will be a model for our other countries and translation works once we complete the translation center. Good progress is being made on the center, however with staff furloughs and medical needs these things are causing setbacks. So our goal is to have the facility workable in 18 months. With this center it will bring all our office work and consulting efforts for Chad into one location. We will have better and more reliable power then we are experiencing in Sahr.

Thank you for praying and caring. I spoke to Mrs. Ouya Bongo and told her that many in America are praying for her. She expressed her sincere appreciation. Enclosed is an attachment with a picture of Mrs. Ouya and 6 of her 7 children. There is also a picture of the graduation class and the goat roast of which we were invited guests.

Lastly for those who have followed the Waalii translation effort we can now say praise the Lord! We have successfully finished the translation and checking. It is off to the printer with plans for a presentation ceremony in Ghana that is scheduled for November of 2009. Thank you for praying for us and for this Bible. Praise God this language has a Bible for the masses.

We will be leaving tomorrow, July 15th for a trip into Canada and then returning through Wyoming and back to Michigan. It will be a time to visit some supporters and also spend a day in LaRonge Saskatchewan where we began our first ministry. Hopefully we can look up some of the people who were saved when we were there if they are still in the area. Our children want us to take lots of pictures as they have many fond memories of LaRonge and the friends they had and years they spent in the Canadian North.

As always we are humbled by the goodness of the Lord as he continues to supply our needs day by day. His mercy and love is never ending. Your prayers and gifts are so appreciated. We thank you for being a part of our lives and ministries these many years that we have served with BMM.

Serving with you for Christ’s Glory,

Gordon and Cindy Wyant Bibles International

8144 W. 112^th St. Baptist Mid Missions

Grant, Michigan 49327

231-924-3126