Doug Wright Update

Dear Praying team,

Doug's been working on the Logo translation of Romans, a very difficult New Testament book to translate, for the last month-long consulting trip of the year. The first two weeks of the month will be spent in a Central Sudanic Discourse workshop. Doug will land in Congo and the next day begin his three days of teaching (in French) the next morning! He'll be teaching six language teams, including the Logo team, how to better identify and use certain grammatical features in their translations. Then the last two weeks of the month-long trip will be spent solely with the Logo team in translation checking, beginning the book of Romans.

Please would you cover this trip in prayer? We (the Congolese translation teams, missionary colleagues, and Doug) covet your prayers so that we can fight the spiritual battle together in Christ, in bringing God's transforming Word to millions of Congolese who have never heard it in their heart languages.
Thanks for standing with us!


Doug called from an isolated Catholic conference center on Saturday. He said he was sitting on a veranda, overlooking a widespread valley, holding his cell phone out and praying it connected with a cell tower somewhere! (There were no electric lines or cell towers in sight, just lots of tropical rain forest.) And it did connect.

He thanked you for praying, saying that his teaching in French went well and that he and the Logo guys are now working together in the seminar. On Friday they fly to Isiro to begin translation checking of the Logo book of Romans. They'll spend the last 2 weeks in checking work.

Thank you for praying for his travels and for his initial days at the seminar. Please would you pray that his shoulder heals: apparently he pulled something while carrying two computers through about 5 different airports and it's causing pain. And add that to the metal spring bed (little support) and he's not sleeping very well. Thanks for continuing to pray.

Oh, and Doug's mentioned that he's seen the big "bird" spiders. If these are the same ones we had in Todro, they're about the size of a small adult hand :-) . He considered killing the ones in his room but then thought he might let them live to kill the mosquitoes!

Thanks again!
Blessings,
Beth

p.s. I'm feeling very well! (Three weeks in a row - yipee!) Thanks for praying. Will be heading to see the grandbabies for a week.

Oct 11-22: Muhito Center - Doug to help in training six teams of Congolese translators to better understand their own languages in order to produce more natural Bible translations
Oct 22: MAF small plane DRC: Bunia – Isiro
Oct 22 - Nov 5: Isiro - Doug & Logo team to check the first half of Romans in Logoti, always including informal training; the whole team will continue to focus their devotionals on living "in Christ"
Nov 5-6: Entebbe UTB Guesthouse - Doug to rest during long trip home
Nov 6–7: travel