We hope your thanksgiving holiday was special. Ours was! We give a special thanks to all our prayer and financial partners in our Wycliffe ministry
Wycliffe Bible Translators
P Y L E F A M I L Y
Thanksgiving 2019
We hope your thanksgiving holiday was special. Ours was! We give a special thanks to all our prayer and financial partners in our Wycliffe ministry (all of whom give sacrificially)!
Our family is thankful for many other things this year. We invite you to give thanks with us!
Eric & Allison are thankful for 2 new Wycliffe ministry partners this year and for those who were able to increase their giving or renew their regular giving.
Eric is thankful for better health and more energy/focus this year, which has been helpful when Allison and/or the kids have been sick. Eating whole foods and healthy fats, while limiting refined carbs and added sugars, has helped him not always feel so "old" all over. He's also very thankful to have completed his service of over 6 years on our Home Owners Association board since the last year or two had become increasingly stressful due to internal disputes. In a sense, every day feels like a vacation, even though his schedule is still very full and busy. Please give thanks for better health and less stress!
Allison is thankful for better health at the moment, though she's often still in need of better sleep. She is thankful that antihistamines have helped to manage weeks of hives following a cold. She's thankful for life with the kids, even though it has been busy and sometimes stressful. She's thankful that Jonah is no longer on a weird schedule, after he started his day at 4am for a few weeks. In addition to stomach bugs and colds going around the house, Sarah got a double ear infection and ruptured her eardrums, which was very painful for her. Give thanks that Sarah's pediatrician thinks her rupture was not serious. Please pray that Sarah's ears continue to recover.
Caleb got to be a brave space-ranger in a "burrito suit". Caleb's CT scan revealed that his restricted neck movement was due to an inflammation (phlegmon) that is healing with the help of antibiotics. His infection had not fully progressed into a retropharyngeal abscess big enough to require surgically draining it or to have a high risk of cutting off his airway.
Caleb, as you may have already seen on Facebook,recently spent the weekend at Children's Medical Center after we discovered he couldn't turn his head or tilt it back as his cold progressed into an infection in his neck. Give thanks that Caleb's meningitis tests came back negative, and that the inflammation had not yet developed to a life-threatening extent. We were SO thankful for this best possible scenario and for friends and family who quickly mobilized to help out while we were at the hospital with Caleb. We're also thankful to be home from the hospital!! Please pray for continued healing for Caleb as he finishes his antibiotics. He has not yet regained a full range of motion in his neck, though it is much-improved. His pediatrician says it could take a couple of months.
There and back again...
We (Eric & Allison) are thankful for answered prayers for a good trip to/from churches in Longview and Tyler, Texas. It had been over two years since we last gave a ministry update presentation at a church, but the presentation went well and helped re-energize our sense of the importance of our Wycliffe ministry and the momentum of projects in Tanzania. Thanks to all those who prayed for this trip!
In October, our kids made an unexpected appearance in our presentation when they decided they'd rather be with us than in childcare at a new church. At one point, Caleb hit a key on my computer that extended my screen, and we had to figure out why the video was playing on my computer but not the projector. Never a dull moment! :-)
Please pray for our preparations and for safe travels and health for holiday travels to and from New Mexico and Oklahoma. We are thankful for two additional opportunities to speak at churches during our travels this year. Also pray for Eric's upcoming meetings in France in late January with other Digital Bible Library software developers (Mark, one of Eric's primary colleagues, works in France).
Please continue to pray that the Lord will raise up for us more partners in ministry so that we can remain with Wycliffe for the long term. Since returning to the U.S. from Tanzania and with our growing family, our budget has changed significantly. There is plenty of room for new partners to join us in helping people receive God's Word in their own language!
