A Tunnel of Support

It was nothing short of inspiring!

I told you last week about the challenge before us in YWAM (Youth With A Mission) OBT (Oral Bible Translation) here in PNG.

The first (of two) cluster groups, doing Bible translation for Luke’s Gospel, is nearly upon us and we, in the OBT team, are working hard to be ready for the influx of translators from three or four different Bible-less languages.

Then we walked onto the YWAM ship last week to join our ship family in an evening of praise at the weekly community gathering.

The ships director came forward, after we had joined in precious worship with around fifty people on board, and I was handed 33 sheets of paper, each with one of the thirty-three Bible-less language group names, and I was asked to distribute the sheets among all the people on board at the meeting.

There followed a chorus of prayer and intercession for these language groups without Bible portions, and also some focussed prayer, with hands laid on, for those workers responsible to facilitate these translations over the course of the rest of this year.

It was both moving and deeply encouraging to see adults and some children, visitors, crew, medical personnel, volunteers, long-term staff alongside short-term-ers, all interceding for the OBT vision and for the labourers in the translation vineyards.

How beautiful to witness such united prayer from such a varied grouping of people this past week! We are expectant that, because Heaven has heard, there will be much fruit in this second half of 2025!