ROMA DECADE OF THE BOOK TOUR IN SERBIA
Greetings from Serbia, where we are visiting several Roma churches to challenge them to read and to be involved in mother-tongue Bible translation.
Our "Roma Decade of the Book" tour started in Apatin, Serbia. This is
a very large Roma neighborhood with 4000-5000 Roma, mostly speaking
Bayash. The church was (60+ people) full for the 8 p.m. program.
Our team did a great job acting out a powerful story about a crippled
Roma girl (told also in the comic book "Milena's Bible" which Roma Bible
Union has produced in several languages). There was a good time of
worship, I spoke briefly and explained the ministry of Roma Bible Union
and how we want to help the Roma church. Our Roma brother preached on
the value that each Roma believer in Christ has, regardless of their
financial or social position. And we showed a powerful video about our
Roma sister who wrote a book that was just published for Roma, by Roma
Bible Union. Please continue to pray for this trip:
- For
finances to complete the trip, which is very expensive since we have 13
people traveling in 3 vehicles and distributing over 10,000 books.
- For more and more Roma families and individuals to catch a vision for reading the Bible and other good Christian books.
- For
more and more Roma to catch a vision for writing Christian books and
magazine articles, and for Roma churches to catch a vision for
translating the Bible into their local Roma dialects.
Please
pray for safety in travel over 1,000 miles, for good health as we will
be in six different cities staying in Roma homes, for patience and
kindness with each other, and for strength as I (Todd) am quite tired
from a previous summer outreach in Croatia and an English camp in
Hungary. Pray for Pam and the kids (including Jonathan who is visiting from Missouri). Pamala has been sick and quite exhausted as well. Thank you so much for your support and prayers that hold us up in this ministry, Todd
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