Prayer concerns

We are asking prayer for the following:

• Francois Medjo is encountering a great and growing demand for his services among the Nzime people-group. He needs help from energetic and self-sacrificial speakers of the language who are committed to use of their language in literacy work at all levels. He also needs help from people committed to translation of the Old Testament and Scripture Use.
• SIL members Keith and Mary Beavon have proven that a good Njyem translation can be created via adaptation from the published Badwe'e text. They need spiritually-mature speakers of Njyem to work with them both in the city of Yaounde and in the home area. Their villages are both in Cameroon and in the Republic of Congo. Pray that the creation of first drafts will go smoothly and that a committee of revisers will be established to work on it further.
• January Ekoalea was the main translator of the Badwe'e New Testament and of the Badwe'e translation of Genesis. He has shown zeal and initiative in helping other Presbyterians in his people group to be more effective in Christian ministry. Now he has said he wants to become a pastor and be more capable of exegeting the rest of the Old Testament. Pray that he will have a memorable and successful time in seminary in Yaounde. He began his classes in the middle of October, but needs to see the Lord provide for the unexpected expenses of his training program.
• SIL members Keith and Mary Beavon are assigned to facilitate translation in three languages other than the three in which they have been ministering. They need a linguist-translator to assist the speakers of these remaining three languages, but no one has been identified.