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Birthday Party Update- thank you for praying!
“Why not have a storying workshop where people can learn the stories and how to use them in the villages?”
“Will you carry wood, eat grass, and tell stories?” (testing in villages…)
Birthday…Update
Thank you all for your prayers for my birthday party. One of our story-crafters “Precious,” helped prepare special food, and shared the story of Jesus’ birth. I followed with a brief testimony in Kahani language about what His birth meant in my life. It was a blessing to share my birthday with so many of our friends from such a wide variety of backgrounds.
“Why not have a storying workshop…?”
This past week, our housemate, Vivian, organized a workshop to motivate local leaders to support the translation work that is happening. Robin and I also did a short presentation on stories. The result from the presentation is the idea to have a two-day storying workshop for the local leaders to learn the Kahani stories and how to use them use them in their ministries and in evang. in the villages. While there is still much to plan, the tentative dates are February 20-21st. This is a huge step in transitioning the work we’ve done in the past year into the hands of nationals. It is our prayer when our time in this project is finished, we can leave knowing that His Word, through these stories, is going forth! Please pray now that He would be preparing those who will come and develop a desire to share the stories in the villages!
(picture: dancing at my birthday party!)
“Will you carry wood, eat grass, and tell stories?”
Our house helper, “Anna,” asked us this today as we started making plans to visit her mother’s village next week to test stories. She is excited to visit her family and show us her mother’s village. She has planned that we’ll sleep in a different place each night, staying for three nights, we think. Pray that the trip will go well, we’ll be able to test stories, as well as listen to their stories, and that above all, we would be a light to “Anna” and her extended family.
Picture: Left to right: Me, Vivian (our housemate, originally from Guatemala), Robin- roasting marshmallows and keeping warm by 
the fire we have several times a week at our home during the winter!
PRAISE AND PRAYER:
Praise for encouraging moments with story-crafters.
Praise for Robin and me coming to some decisions regarding the rest of the stories for the set.
Praise for the blessing of being able to share a story and testimony with many at my birthday party.
Prayer for testing in villages- the next few weeks, and continuing to adjust stories.
Prayer for beginning plans for the storying workshop! (currently scheduled for: Feb 20-21).
Til All Have Heard,
~ Elizabeth
“Like the ten spies, we too can be pessimists; or like the two spies, optimists. Like the ten, we can put our difficulties between us and God and say we are not able; or like the two, we can put God between the difficulties and ourselves and say we are able!” ~Henrietta C. Mears
“Is anything to hard for the Lord? No!” ~Genesis 18:14
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