Prayer Update - 25 October 2011

These are the prayer requests and praise items for this week:

• Introducing: "500@30 - A dollar a day for the global church!" - We launched our new fundraising drive this week! We are asking God to raise up 500 people supporting the ministry of Distant Shores Media and Door43 at $30/month. Please pray that God would raise up the people and churches we need! Find out more at www.dsmedia.org/support and please consider joining our financial support team if you are able!
• Praise the Lord for the new technical infrastructure - We recently fixed most of the last remaining problems with DSM's communications server and things are much more stable and reliable now. Thank you for praying!
• Needed: volunteer web developers - We received an email this week from a Bible translation team in a Eurasian language group that is interested in using Door43 to distribute their translation of the Bible! We are excited about this but we need help to set up the "background" pieces in Door43 for their language. This will provide navigational links for their translation and keep things better organized (read more about it here). Please pray that God would raise up volunteer web developers who can create this simple web-based tools that will greatly accelerate things for Bible translation teams like these.
• Open Bible Stories - We would like to finish the stories in English by the end of 2011, which is ambitious given the number of other projects underway. Please pray for the time and additional help we need to get this done. Also, please pray for the new translators in other languages who are interested in helping. We were contacted recently by a couple who speak Brazilian Portuguese and are interested in translating the stories - Praise the Lord! Thank you for praying with us. God is doing great things and we are thankful for your prayer and support for this ministry.