Back in America

We arrived in America on June 17 for a scheduled six-month furlough. Since our arrival, we have been in Los Angeles visiting friends and family while also doing paperwork related to the estate of Martha's father and speaking at our home church in Covina. On July 3 we fly to Pittsburgh, where we will spend the remainder of our furlough time with my (Adam's) mother. While it has been wonderful to reconnect with friends and family, it has been a whirlwind of activity so far, and we are looking forward to getting to Pennsylvania and settling in.

Visiting our dear friends Olen and Teresa Adams

The typesetting for the Enga New Testament is now complete, and there will be a "checking party" in Papua New Guinea on July 3 to make sure there are no typesetting errors before sending the Enga New Testament off for print. A checking party usually consists of a dozen or more volunteers who check for a variety of formatting issues. Usually the translators are not involved in these checking parties because it is helpful to have people looking at everything with a fresh set of eyes.

Meanwhile, typesetting for the Enga-English New Testament is about halfway complete at this point, and we hope to finish it up in the next couple of weeks. Please pray for good transitions for the kids, Martha, and me, as we adjust to life back in the United States. Please also pray for Jacob as he looks for a temporary job and continues his fundraising efforts for his upcoming missions internship with Push the Rock. Thank you so much for your prayers!