We asked people to pray for us as we were in Florida sharing about our journey, Wycliffe, Bible translation and what we do.

  • About 70 people downloaded our prayer calendar in October. (Current calendar available here.)
  • About 20 people committed to pray for us on a certain day of the week.

Many of you have asked how our trip went. It was a trip… (i.e., we had fun!)

  • 26 cities
  • 34+ hours of driving
  • 1815 miles of Florida Roads

We talked with a lot of people.

  • 1399 people attended banquets and heard our story
  • 142 people expressed and interest in our ministry (i.e., signed up for our newsletter at a banquet)
  • 2 people have joined our team as monthly or quarterly financial partners

Of these 1399 people, many did not know of Wycliffe’s ministry at all. It was the first time many of them had been to a banquet. We had the glorious opportunity to talk with about 15 students over the course of the trip. These students were interested in learning about options for linguistics schools and how to acquire the skills needed for Bible Translation. We were able to point a few of them in the direction of SIL-UND. We hope to see them there in the coming summer.

So Florida was fun, tiring, rewarding and wearing. (We were both sick for about two weeks after we got back, but then again it was flu season too.)

It is a bit soon to say that this is a complete tally of our trip as some responses are still coming in.

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