I don't really have time to do this today - just got back from Florida yesterday & have lots of other things to do.

I just finished reading the book Mission Possible & I hated for it to end. What an incredible story it is; a description is hard to put into words though. I keep starting, & then backspace because it just doesn't sound right. Basically, it's the story of how in the '60s God called Marilyn Laszlo to be a Bible translator for the Sepik Iwam people of Hauna, PNG, & the ways He worked in her life & in many others, to accomplish what seemed like an impossible mission. Not only that, the book tells the awesome stories of how God worked in the hearts of specific people there, so that they finally came to understand the Gospel message. It took 20 years to translate the New Testament into this language, & towards the end of the book it tells how the people waited eagerly for their first printed Bibles to arrive. For the day of delivery ( in the year 1990, folks ) they decorated the village as for a holiday celebration & waited. (Shame & remorse set in on the reader here, but it's not the first time during the reading of the book. ) In the late afternoon, as the canoe came into sight, the call went out & hundreds of people went to the riverbank shouting & waving palm branches. When I read that they then began shouting "The Word of God has come!" , & how grateful they were for their new Bibles, I lost it.   This book will have you laughing, crying, marveling, thinking, &,  for me anyway, wishing you could've been there to experience it all.

 I wish everyone would read both this book & Peace Child; I wish more people would give $$ to support Wycliff Bible Translators; I also wish I would've had the ability, the guts, & the faith to do what this lady & her team members did (& what others like them are doing now).