Prayer Update - 6 February 2012

Some exciting things have happened in the last couple months! We have welcomed a new full-time staff member onto the team and a number of projects are moving forward. These are the praise items and prayer needs we have right now:

• Praise God for new staff! – Bruce Erickson has come on staff with DSM and is helping in research, accounting and strategy development. He has been involved with DSM from the beginning of the organization and his active involvement at this crucial phase is greatly appreciated!
• Praise God for a growing network – We have had the joy of meeting many like-minded contacts in ministry at recent conferences and through the contact form on the DSM website. God is at work all over the world, raising up many who believe in the vision of unrestricted discipleship resources in every language, and on any mobile phone.
• Praise God for meeting needs – We are very grateful to God for His provision of needed financial resources to end 2011 well. Additional staff members are crucially needed and some are ready to join the organization today. We are praying that God would raise up additional financial supporters to make it possible. Find out more about our support needs here.
• Please pray for the writing of "the book" – Recently, work has begun on writing a book that explains the "big picture" regarding the rise of the global church, the ministry opportunities afforded by the rise of mobile phones all over the world, and the urgent need for discipleship resources that are released from copyright restrictions so that they can be used in any language without hindrance. Please pray that God would grant wisdom and clarity in the writing of the book. (And yes, it will certainly be released under the same Attribution-Share Alike license that is in use on Door43!)
• Please pray for Open Bible Stories – We urgently need help from people who are able to review the stories in English for completeness and theological "fine-tuning" of the stories. There is also an urgent need for help Photoshopping the 500+ images that will be turned into videos of the stories. If you know of anyone who could help with either of these, please have them read this blog post to find out more. Please also pray for the translation team in Uganda, that God would open doors for more people to translate the stories into their own languages. Good progress is being made in a number of languages and we are excited to see the enthusiasm of the people as they look forward to receiving the Bible story videos in their language, soon.

Thank you for praying with us!