We are not surprised to be updating you that our Equip Wycliffe training in Orlando has moved to online training. While we are not disappointed to avoid airports and traveling with two littles, we were looking forward to being at Wycliffe headquarters, meeting more Wycliffe missionaries, and the kids MK (missionary kid) Program sounded so fun for Kira. The big challenge now will be how to do two weeks of full-time training without child care. We are not alone in this as several other people attending the training also have young kids. I suppose it will be a lesson for all of us in flexibility and adaptability. There are a lot of details that will be worked out in the coming weeks but we wanted to update you with what we know so far. Thanks for praying with us in all of this. We are praying for all of you to be well physically, spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. I’ll close with something that was shared with me from a Wycliffe mentor:
“Let me close with a reminder of God’s faithfulness 100 years ago as William Cameron ‘Uncle Cam’ Townsend—the founder of JAARS, Wycliffe Bible Translators, and SIL International—began his Bible translation work in Guatemala in the first language of this modern movement. Uncle Cam obeyed God’s call in the midst of World War I and went to Guatemala. Then he began ministry just as the Spanish Flu pandemic was exploding around the world. The same God who cared for and protected Uncle Cam and others in those days can protect and watch over us now. ‘Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.‘ —1 Corinthians 15:58“
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