MICHEALS’ MICHEALS’ MEMOIRS May 2007 UPDATE
A Needed Partnership Development Trip Planned For June 2007
We praise the Lord that recently some large financial gifts have been given to us to help meet some outstanding financial needs. Several new people have also pledged their monthly support to us. We appreciate all who have given to help keep us involved in this Bible translation ministry! While these gifts have helped catch us back up and improved our overall support level, we still lack full support to continue our work, Therefore, we are planning a month long visit to the Michigan area and surrounding states in June 2007 to meet our current supporters and churches and express our thanks and to seek out new opportunities to share the vision of our ministry with Wycliffe. During our visit in Michigan we will be speaking at a Wycliffe Associate meeting in Hudsonville, MI on st June 21 . This meeting will give us an opportunity to share our work and say thanks to many people from Michigan who come each winter to Florida to volunteer at our Wycliffe Headquarters.
Chuck, Barb, Isaac & Jenny Wycliffe’s Word Spring Discovery Center
In December 2006 we shared with you that there are 66 indigenous languages spoken in Burkina Faso and to date only three languages have the complete Bible and only another 25 languages have either a New Testament or portions of the Bible. Peru has at least eight languages left to translate. Therefore, Chuck’s Recruitment Ministries “Next Gen” youth department planned several short trips this summer through their “GET Global (Go Experience Translation)” program to challenge young people to meet this need.
Barb has been working the past few months to set up a Get Global trip to Burkina Faso and Peru. We praise the Lord that seven young people have signed up to go to Burkina Faso and nine to go to Peru. Although Barb will not be able to travel with the Burkina Faso group like we thought, the trips will be held in late June and early July. Please pray for safety for the participants and that several will make a commitment to one day becoming a Bible translator in one of the remaining languages in Burkina Faso or Peru.
Our June/July Trip Route If you would like us to come and speak about the ministry of Bible translation and our work at your church, small group, youth group, Bible study or for a home meeting with your circle of friends anywhere near our trip route, please let us know. Please call or email us soon at:
Phone: (407) 671-2817 Email: Chuck_Micheals@wycliffe.org
Home: Chuck & Barb Micheals 5167 Poinsetta Ave, Winter Park, Florida 32792 FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT: Wycliffe Bible Translators, P. O. Box 628200, Orlando, FL 32862-8200, Marked for ‘Chuck & Barb Micheals’
Recruitment Ministry Update SUPPORTING THE RECRUITMENT TEAM Chuck has been on the go the past four months visiting his recruitment team of 130 staff members spread from coast to coast. He has traveled to California, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Texas for recruitment training and planning meetings. Chuck & Barb both traveled to Pennsylvania to participate in a staff retreat and both visited San Juan, Puerto Rico to attend the opening of our newest Wycliffe office there. RECRUITMENT RESULTS CONTINUE TO CLIMB! Recruitment results continue to show good progress. Since October 1, 2004 we have had 470 people join Wycliffe as members and over 1,500 more have expressed interest in joining. Join us in praising God for this interest and pray that many more will join us as members.
Praise & Prayer Praise the Lord that financial gifts have come in to pay off outstanding bills! Pray for an increase in regular monthly support. Join us in praying for Isaac as he raises his support to serve as a teacher with Wycliffe at the Black Forest Academy mission school in Germany. This school serves the mission community working in the Eurasia area. He just finished his Wycliffe orientation course in Orlando, FL. He hopes to leave for the school in August and needs to raise his full support before then.
Chuck’s Next Gen Staff On A Recent Retreat
Barb With Two New Puerto Rico Recruits and Wycliffe America’s Area Representative (center)
Isaac and Jenny
Wycliffe Puerto Rico Celebrations
Home: Chuck & Barb Micheals 5167 Poinsetta Ave, Winter Park, Florida 32792 FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT: Wycliffe Bible Translators, P. O. Box 628200, Orlando, FL 32862-8200, Marked for ‘Chuck & Barb Micheals’