The good news is Don Block had been able to complete both the Falam NT and Writers’ Handbook just before his accident and had even sent the Falam NT to the translator for a final check. Birch was able to come with the rest of the family to Northland, hurray! But we have several issues of prayer related to each item:
•    The doctors were not able to save Don’s finger. He lost his finger from the first knuckle up and his ring finger from the second knuckle up. He was at risk for gangrene, so they had no choice but to remove them. Please continue to keep him and his wife Pat in your prayers.
•     The Falam translator has already edited what Don sent him and sent page 92 pages of corrections!! Many of these are to bring the NT to match the writing standards set up in the Writers’ Handbook. Don is working on the corrections at home! He is an amazing, dedicated servant.
•     Connie has completed the corrections Don marked in the Falam Writers’ Handbook. She had hoped to send it today to Myanmar, but we’ve started putting ISBN numbers on all our books so she has to wait to get that. Pray that the office is able to get this to us quickly. Usually Don handles this as well.
 
 
Connie has 30 students in her class this year! She has never had more than 24 and usually it’s closer to 20. Seven of these are graduate students. This means she needs to spend extra class hours with them and grade additional assignments. Just the extra grading will add a lot of time. Northland is helping by having someone else enter the grades and help administer some of the oral quizzes, but please keep her in your prayers as the class will definitely push her limits more than usual. Also, pray she doesn’t lose her voice. Last year we had you all praying ahead of time and it was the first year she didn’t lose her voice. So please start praying!
 
We’ve got so much to do to get ready for our trip. Pray we can get the work done while we’re here.