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The Reflection and Prayer Training in May

For about five years I have done days of reflection and prayer, and short retreats, for groups as I travel and teach internationally. In 2003 the organization requested that I begin training others to do the same. Beginning that year, I have done this training four times (typically for ten days in May and ten days again in October). This year our May 413 location was at Lutheridge, near Asheville. Those who came to be trained work in Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, the Sudan, Togo-Benin, our regional office in Michigan, the JAARS Center in Waxhaw, and our Dallas International Center. It was an awesome time as we worshipped, prayed, and learned together.

An Opportunity To Help

The next Reflection and Prayer training session will be October 414 at the Brookhaven Retreat Center in Texas near our international headquarters. As in May, most of the participants will be coming from overseas and will have need of financial assistance. A full scholarship is $500.00. This includes a week of accommodations and meals, the training notebook and other resource materialsa great price because the retreat center is giving us a discounted rate since we are a mission organization. Once a year I ask individuals, groups, and churches to consider assisting with a scholarship (any amount would be greatly appreciated!). Write your check to "Wycliffe International" and on the "for" line put "R & P Scholarship". Mail the check to me at my Charlotte address (listed at the end of the NL). It would be helpful to receive any gifts as soon as possible, so that I can get in touch with those who have applied to attend

Summer Plans

During the summer months I am looking forward to some family visitors, traveling to California to spend time with my sister, and speaking to churches and groups (please let me know if your group needs a program). I will also be preparing the seminar and workshop materials that I will be teaching this fall.

God's Faithfulness for Seventy Years

What should we celebrate on this anniversary? It started at the first training for prospective Bible translators at an abandoned farmhouse in Sulphur Springs, Arkansas, then moved to Norman, Oklahoma for forty-seven years and on around the world to Australia, the UK, Germany, Thailand, Nairobi, and many other places where Wycliffe has prepared many individuals over the years. We currently have nearly 6,000 members of our organization, and we celebrate how God has brought people from over sixty countries to work together.

We celebrate the amazing privilege God has given us of living and working with over a thousand peoples, enabling them to develop, write, and record their languages and cultures. We've helped them put the Scriptures into their languages, and we rejoice in the spreading vision of God's Word as a means of evangelizing and discipling these people groups.

We celebrate how God has opened doors around the world from the first language work in Mexico, to Peru, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, West Africa, India, Russia, and Chinafrom one continent to all continents. We've enjoyed a wide range of friendships, from simple villagers to influential university and government officials.

A Heartbreak

The tragic murder of translator Rich Hicks and his wife/literacy specialist Charlene in Guyana by terrorists in April has left a hole in the Wycliffe family and in the Wapishana translation project. But, praise God, the translation was not lost. "Everything in the Hicks' house was burned, but I had copies on my computer of all but Rich's most recent translation work," reports co-translator Bev Dawson, who was out of the country at the time of the disaster. Two months after the murders, Bev returned in early June to the Wapishana language area with co-worker Chic Ruth and other staff. Please pray for another experienced translator to join the team, as well as for the many people affected by this loss.

Prayer Partners Needed

I would like to set up ways to contact those of you who would be willing to receive my prayer requests approximately every three weeks, and who would be willing to be intercessors for those who are traveling from overseas locations to attend various training sessions. If you would like to be a prayer partner, please get in touch with me via email, regular mail, or phone. Please let me know the following so that we can set up a way for you to receive the prayer requests. We need your name, and whether you prefer to receive the prayer requests via phone or email. We also need the name of your SS class or group, and the name and address of your church. In addition, let me know if you are willing to be a contact person who can pass the requests on to others and if so, to which group(s). Thank you for responding to this need!

Thank You . . .
. . . for your support of my ministry. It is much needed and much appreciated. Here are some ways to help:

1. Support for my regular, on-going needs should be sent to WBT, P.O. Box 628200, Orlando, FL 32862-8200 and marked .for Evelyn Davis..
2. Gifts for travel, equipment, and other needs should be sent to WBT at the same Orlando, FL address and marked "99051 for Evelyn Davis. 47303 Dallas YTRNCN Fund".
3. Contributions for medical and dental expenses, and to provide a stipend to persons assisting with the preparation of my materials should be sent to Carmel Presbyterian Church, Attn: Accounting Assistant, 2048 Carmel Rd, Charlotte, NC 28226-5098; marked "for Evelyn Davis".

In Joy I Serve Him,

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