Collins Family March 2020 Prayer Requests

Pray for Wes and Nancy in mid-March as they visit language and linguistic classes at North Greenville University to talk to students about considering cross-cultural ministry once they graduate. A lot has changed in missions over time, but much stays the same.

Collins Family February 2020 Prayer Requests

Pray for Wes as he works on a book on the history of writing Maya-Mam. It is an intriguing topic and we pray that the book would help build the prestige of that minority language, which we trust will encourage reading and writing.

Collins Family: 2019 in Retrospect

Friends,

Here is our retrospect for 2019.

Blessings to all and May God bless your year 2020.

Wes and Nancy Collins

Collins Family May 2019 Prayer Requests

Ministry in Venezuela is very difficult for foreigners due to restrictions on travel and currency exchange. Pray for faithful Christian leaders who love the Lord and their country as they continue to move forward with Bible translation, Christian ministry and relief. Students as we are having challenges traveling abroad for training and exchanging local currency.

Thanks.

Wes

Collins Family April 2019 Prayer Requests

Pray for indigenous leadership in Christian movements around the world. Whereas “nationals” have long been helpers and interpreters for their Western colleagues, more and more ministry leadership and vision casting falls to them. Pray for God’s Spirit to move and teach them and that relationships would be solid and God-honoring.

Best,

Wes

Collins Family March 2019 Prayer Requests

Over the last years many people have been trained for cross-cultural ministry to serve in the Americas and around the world. Pray that local churches would take on the challenge of funding and continuing to equip young people and families to partner with them for sake of God’s Kingdom.

Collins Family February 2019 Prayer Requests

1. Pray for Wes as he spends most of February in Peru training indigenous Bible translators in linguistics skills to help them in their ministries. There will be 15 students and several TA’s.

2. Pray for continued progress and blessing for the group of 6 Mam men and women and several gringos working on Old Testament translation.

Collins Family: 2018 in Retrospect

Friends,

Greetings to you from North Carolina. Attached here is our 2018 in Retrospect newsletter. 

Blessings to all and happy new year.

Wes and Nancy Collins

Collins Family January 2019 Prayer Requests

1. After a challenging year, eleven CILTA students graduated from their linguistic classes and are geared up to commence or continue cross-cultural ministry as Bible translators and literacy workers. We had a delightful graduation ceremony with University officials faculty, local pastors, mission partners and students from seven nations. Pray that our now “former students” would get off on the right foot with learning new languages and cultures.

2. Wes will be in rural Peru for most of February helping to train 14 indigenous church leaders in linguistic skills for Bible translation. The course is faintly similar to CILTA, but CILTA is aimed at Latino missionaries working cross-culturally, whereas the February program is aimed at native language translators translating the Scriptures into their own mother tongues. Pray for effective preparation time for Wes and his teaching assistant, as well as for the students.

Collins Family November 2018 Prayer Requests

Wes will be in Peru mid-November to mid-December to teach an intensive linguistics course at CILTA, a linguistics missionary training program aimed at equipping native Spanish speakers for cross cultural ministry. He will be teaching at the tail end of the school year. Pray for students to finish well.