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Wishing you a Merry Christmas 2014

Bakwe' Mission on December 17, 2014

As we wrap up the translation of the drafting of the New Testament over this next year we covet your prayers. Pray for the Bakwé people’s salvation, for health, for protection, for wisdom, for our equipment to work, for schedules, for preachers to preach the translated Word, and for open receptive hearts. Pray that the Bakwé become a people totally transformed by God’s Word! Thank you for your faithful partnership in the Gospel over the years in bringing the Word of God to the Bakwé people. We would love to hear from you. Please drop us a short email and tell us how you are doing.

My Bakwé colleague, Alexis, and I have four more books of the New Testament left to translate (Hebrews, Jude, Revelation, and Matthew). Over the coming year, Lord willing, we will complete translating these books and finish up the consultant checking of these and remaining books that haven’t yet been checked by a consultant. Recently we worked with a Wycliffe translation consultant to check 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Philemon, and Titus.

Family trip to visit the Bakwé
This past summer our whole family (all except for Hans and his family) made a trip into the village. Pictures in this letter give you some idea of what it was like. I have been making trips to the village on the average of two trips a year, but this was the first for the family since we were evacuated. Ten years earlier they had been jerked out of their life in the village when the civil war started, leaving their projects on their desks, and all their possessions behind. We are very thankful that we could make the trip. It was a huge encouragement to us, and to our Bakwé friends!

Noai’s engagement
Praise the Lord with us for Noai’s engagement to Kellen Meyer. Kellen is a wonderful Christian young man who is a pilot instructor for a company in California. He and Noai have known each other for a long time since both our families go to the same church. They have been friends since coming to Moscow. He is a perfect match for her and we are proud to have him join the family. The wedding is planned for March 13th.

Please pray with us for:
1. Csaba and Alexis as they translate;
2. the growth of the young Bakwé churches;
3. the Bakwé team (Firmain, Alexis, and Perez) and their families; Firmain just lost his father-in-law;
4. political stability;
5. churches to establish reading and writing classes as part of church life;
6. healing Noai of her MS;
7. God’s blessing on Kellen and Noai.

Thank you for your continued prayers and support!

The Leidenfrosts

Off to Côte d’Ivoire for month

Bakwe' Mission on June 5, 2012

Leaving Lewiston, Idaho this morning and flying to Salt Lake City. Then on to France and then tomorrow evening I’ll be in Abidjan. I’m looking forward to seeing my Bakwé colleagues again!

Csaba to Abidjan for a month

Bakwe' Mission on October 28, 2011

Working together around the same table, looking each other in the eye and getting instant feedback –there is nothing like it! It is good to be back in Côte d’Ivoire working face to face with my Bakwé colleagues, Alexis, Pastor Firmain and Perez. This trip, our work schedule includes doing some evaluation of what we accomplished last year and doing some realistic (we hope) planning for the year to come. Two SIL staff will accompany us to the village where our planning session will include four key members of the Bakwé language association board of directors.

Aside from these meetings, the lion’s share of our time will be spent working through our Bakwé translation of Acts and Romans, getting them ready for a verse-by-verse check by a Wycliffe/SIL translation consultant. What time we have left I will use for a number of things, including the following: training the Bakwé team how to maintain the Bakwé web site; instruction on audio recording technique; the use of a couple of programs; re-installation of original software on a laptop; and much more.

Please keep us in your prayers. Thank you!

Bakwé situation stable

Bakwe' Mission on July 26, 2011

“Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me.” Psalm 66:20

Thank you for your continued prayers for Côte d’Ivoire and the Bakwé. Things have finally settled down over there. Our Bakwé colleagues and their families are back in the village and, praise the Lord, nothing was looted while they were gone! Their houses, the office and our house were not touched! Perez’s older brother who was severely beaten by soldiers is recovering from his wounds. The funeral for the chief of the village, who was found dead, will be in early August. They still do not know how he died. Apparently he was running from the soldiers and hiding in the bush at the time. Some think he may have died of an heart attack. He was a Christian.

Alexis, Perez and Firmain are back in the office and the work continues. While Alexis is working on the second draft of Romans, I have been taking the time to do some needed grammar analysis of Bakwé relative clauses and their use in Bakwé narrative. After I finish a short write-up of my findings I will begin working on our next book –1st Corinthians. Pastor Firmain continues to do the bookkeeping for the Bakwé Translation and Literacy Center as well as some Bakwé book production. He also pastors the local church in the village and oversees another church plant. Perez is currently working on back-translating our translation of Acts into literal French in preparation for a consultant to check our translation.

Please visit the private page of the Bakwé Mission web-site for more specific prayer requests. Click here to enter. If you don’t have the password, you will need to email Csaba and request it –thanks.

November Bakwé Mission Update