Returning home from Nairobi, Kenya, and Atlanta, Georgia

We praise God for the very fruitful couple of weeks we have had: Todd in Nairobi, Kenya, attending a (Bible translation) Consultant-in-Training workshop and strategy meetings for the Regional (Bible translation) Consultant Coordinators, and Pamala, Daniel, and Ariela in Atlanta, working with Matthew on his house.

Now we are all traveling home, and we ask you to pray for safe travel, rest, and recovery before leaving for Croatia next week.

Below are lots of pictures! For Todd, they include a fascinating visit to a tea farm outside Nairobi, and a very loud (!) Kenyan church service in Nairobi in a giant tent, as well as lots of meetings and meals with my Bible translation (BT) consultant colleagues from around the world. Due to security issues, I am not able to show many of them in pictures or mention their home countries, but trust me when I say that it was very international and very stimulating.

We covered many topics in our meetings, including qualifications, requirements and job descriptions for BT consultants; professional and academic development for BT consultants; curriculum and course delivery for BT consultants; onboarding and mentorship of BT consultants; interpersonal and intercultural skills; training in our specific BT software; AI in BT; and discussions about our operational goals for 2030 and 2050, with a review of our progress toward those goals and action steps to reach those targets.

Pamala, Daniel, Ariela, and Matthew (pictured below in action) were able to get a lot done on Matthew’s house, primarily sanding, preparing, and painting the walls, and laying flooring. They also enjoyed hang-out time together and a restful visit to a nearby forest.

Thank you for your very faithful prayers and support for us! We so appreciate your partnership in the Gospel!

FINANCIAL UPDATE

Please pray that the Lord will provide the remaining $2,185 per month we lack in pledged financial support. If you would like to give toward this need, please use the giving information below. Thank you so much!

Our daily prayer calendar for June 2026

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June 1 Pray for Todd attending Bible translation consultation strategy meetings in Nairobi today through Wednesday

June 2 Pray for Pam, Daniel & Ariela finishing work on Matthew’s house & driving home from Atlanta, GA

June 3 Pray for God’s leading as we plan & make decisions in our Nairobi meetings re: training new consultants

June 4 Pray for safe travel for Todd home from Nairobi, Kenya, good health & quick adjustment back to US Central Time

June 5 Pray for the full financial support needed for each summer teamer coming to Croatia with us (next week)

June 6 Pray for efficiency to get all packed & final preparations done for our trip to Croatia on Monday

June 7 Today is Graduates’ Sunday with lunch at church. Praise God for his grace and fruit in Daniel’s life!

June 8 Pray for smooth flights, good weather, no delays & safety flying to Croatia through Chicago and London for our family today

June 9 Pray for rest, stamina, safety & health on the flights to Zagreb, Croatia, then car rental & driving to Sisak, Croatia

June 10 Pray for great flights for the summer teamers overnight from the US to Croatia, for their bags to arrive & for good health & stamina

June 11 Pray for Arnold traveling by bus and train from Hungary & for the whole summer team to arrive safely in Sisak, Croatia

June 12 Pray for good rest for our team after travel, good rapport, acclimation to Croatia & helpful training & skit practices

June 13 Pray as we invite kids & adults to the movie of Luke’s Gospel, for open & receptive hearts in all three villages

June 14 Pray we will be warmly received in a new village, Kutina, where we will show the film of the Gospel of Luke

June 15 Pray for our morning & late afternoon Bible clubs, for great attendance & open hearts during these 2 Vacation Bible Schools

June 16 Pray for good weather outside for both Bible clubs, no distractions & for kids to have a desire to learn at the Vacation Bible Schools

June 17 Pray for our teen day camp, for good relationship building, for the gospel to be clearly understood, for salvation of kids

June 18 Pray that the teens will feel genuinely loved & that they will watch the Gospel of Luke film attentively & with spiritual understanding

June 19 Pray for good team bonding & relaxation as we tour Zagreb, Croatia, as a team

June 20 Pray for safe travels for the team traveling home by plane, car, train & bus, & for good rest

June 21 Happy Father’s Day! Praise God for our loving fathers who have demonstrated God’s care & provision

June 22 Pray for rest & lovely weather, fun touring & seaside time with our Croatia friends

June 23 Pray for quality relationship-building with all whom we are with in Croatia

June 24 Pray for smooth flights, good weather, good health as we fly home today (gaining 7 hours in time zone difference)

June 25 Pray for good health & that we will quickly recover from jet lag & acclimate back to US Central Time

June 26 Pray God’s guidance for us as we edit verses in Mark & Matthew in Bayash, for a clear, accurate & natural translation

June 27 Pray for God’s leading as we check verses in John, Revelation & Galatians in Macedonian Arli for a clear, accurate, natural translation

June 28 Pray for the Roma to remember what they learned, believe the Gospel & to read & listen to the Gospel of Luke & Bible stories

June 29 Pray for God’s leading as we edit verses in 2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles in Gurbet, for an accurate & clear translation

June 30 Pray for God to be very real to each of our children so they will have growing faith & pursue Christian fellowship

Testimonials from the recently published New Testaments

Enjoy this 3-minute video featuring testimonials of how God is using His Word through the recently published New Testament in three Romani languages (Arli, Gurbet, and Chergash). If you look closely, you’ll see Todd and Pam in the audience.

Greetings from Kenya

Today is our 37th wedding anniversary, though we find ourselves on opposite sides of the world! I (Todd) am in Nairobi, Kenya, and Pamala is in Atlanta, Georgia.

As part of my role as a Regional Consultant Coordinator, I’m attending workshops in Nairobi for consultants-in-training, i.e., those in the process of becoming Bible translation consultants. We have gathered from many nations of Asia, Africa, and Europe for the training, and so far have covered various topics such as approaches to Bible translation, procedures of conducting a consulting meeting, roles of a Bible translation consultant, literary genres of the Bible, and quality assurance in Bible translation. Below are a few pictures from Nairobi.

While I’m away, Pamala, Daniel, and Ariela are in Atlanta, helping Matthew. Matthew rents out the upper level of his house and lives in the lower level, which he is finishing. Pam, Daniel, and Ariela are helping him paint and lay flooring. Below are some pictures from Atlanta.

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned that our teams have distributed the newly completed New Testaments in different parts of Serbia. Recently, some of them traveled to Germany, where they distributed the NT to Roma who live there. Below are some pictures from Germany.

Before leaving for Nairobi, Ariela and I went to Oklahoma City to visit my mom, Geri, in the nursing home, and on the way home, we attended a very worshipful Phil Wickham concert. See pictures below.

Ariela has completed another year of American Heritage Girls and was recently recognized for the badges, patches, and service stars she earned. We’re very proud of her for her hard work! See a couple of pictures below.

Thank you for your faithful prayers and financial support.

To God be the glory,

Todd

Mother’s Day; Daniel’s graduation; New Testament distribution; summer team prep

Mother’s Day picnic at the lake.
L-R: Timothy, Daniel, Kirsten, Ariela, Pamala, Elizabeth, Baby Sell, Stephen

FAMILY UPDATE

We’re thankful for wonderful times together as a family, including a Mother’s Day picnic where the KC kids could join us and celebrate Pamala.

We enjoyed celebrating Daniel’s high school graduation in a ceremony with two of his graduating friends, held at their Wednesday school (see pictures above and below).

We’re grateful for beautiful weather, a wonderful supper together, encouraging speeches, and the many friends who came to celebrate this milestone with him. He will continue to live at home and work in his apprenticeship with a local HVAC, electric, and plumbing company.

MINISTRY UPDATE

In our last update, we shared about the dedication and distribution of the New Testament in three languages. The Roma in the city where those distributions were made speak two of those languages, Arli and Gurbet. However, the third language, Chergash, is spoken in a different area of Serbia, so our teams held a special distribution there for that (pictured below). Also, there are Roma in many other countries, and our Arli and Gurbet teams even had a special distribution in Germany.

Plans are coming together for our summer outreach in Croatia coming up in June. We’ve met online with our summer teamers (who live in Iowa, Colorado and Hungary; pictured below) to plan the logistics, practice the songs and go over the Bible story skits we will use in VBS. We’re also grateful for the youth group of a local church that purchased and bagged candy we will give out and for our local church youth who helped assemble crafts, all of which we will take and distribute in Croatia at the VBS with Roma.

Summer team meeting online to prepare for Croatia outreach trip. L-R, top: Todd, Pamala, Samuel, Eliza; bottom: Amy, Arnie, William Patrick

FINANCIAL UPDATE

Please pray that the Lord will provide the remaining $2,185 per month we lack in financial support pledges. If you would like to give toward this need, please use the giving information below. Thank you so much!


Todd & Pamala (Daniel & Ariela) Price

Our daily prayer calendar for May 2026

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May 1 Praise God for 6 young people signing up to join our family for our outreach in Croatia, June 10-20, 2026

May 2 Pray for Ariela, acting & singing in the musical “Cinderella” at school today

May 3 Pray for Todd teaching adult Equip Hour & Pamala teaching the youth girls Sunday school this morning

May 4 Pray for wisdom as Pamala writes the Bible story skits & the schedule for our Roma VBS in Croatia this summer

May 5 Pray for Ariela to grow spiritually, gain new skills & be a blessing to others in her American Heritage Girls troop today

May 6 Pray for wisdom for Todd & the Gurbet team editing their translation of 2 Samuel & 1 Kings

May 7 Pray for Todd studying to check the Macedonian Arli translation of the Gospel of John, Revelation & Colossians

May 8 Pray for wisdom for Todd & the Macedonian Arli team editing their translation of the Gospel of John, Revelation and Colossians

May 9 Pray for great rapport & learning for the summer teamers as we meet online with them today for training

May 10 Pray for each of our children to know & walk closely with the Lord & attend a Bible-teaching church regularly

May 11 Pray the Lord will provide the $2,000 per month that we lack in monthly support pledges

May 12 Pray for Todd as he studies to check the Gurbet translation of 2 Samuel & 1 Kings

May 13 Pray for financial support each of our summer teamers will need for their travel & outreach costs in Croatia June 10-20, 2026

May 14 Pray that Matthew’s insurance will approve an electronic prosthetic arm for him this year

May 15 Pray for Daniel’s graduation ceremony today to encourage him and glorify the Lord

May 16 Pray for the 2nd online meeting for the summer team today to be helpful in preparing them to minister in Croatia

May 17 Pray for wisdom for the Bayash team & for Todd translating the Gospel of Mark

May 18 Pray for the Chergash team as they translate 1-2 Samuel & 1-2 Kings & for the consultant helping them

May 19 Pray for the Serbian Arli team as they translate 1-2 Samuel & 1-2 Kings & for the consultant helping them

May 20 Pray God will raise up Roma to translate the Bible into the Ludari language (only Luke has been translated)

May 21 Pray that Todd & Ariela will be a blessing to Todd’s mom as they visit her in her Oklahoma City nursing home

May 22 Pray for a worshipful Phil Wickham concert & a memorable Daddy/daughter time for Todd & Ariela attending

May 23 Pray for safety, good health & quick adjustment to the time change as Todd goes to Nairobi, Kenya for 13 days for meetings

May 24 Pray for a safe, smooth trip for Pam, Daniel & Ariela going to Atlanta to help Matthew work on his house through June 2

May 25 Pray for visas for our friends, a missionary family of 4, to be able to live & work with Roma in Slavonski Brod, Croatia

May 26 Pray for fruitful training in Nairobi through the workshop for those preparing to become Bible translation consultants

May 27 Today is our 37th wedding anniversary! Praise God with us for this wonderful gift!

May 28 Pray for healing for Goran, translator for the Gurbet language, of his lung & autoimmune disease

May 29 Pray for productivity painting & helping Matthew on his house, & then for safe travels home on June 2-3

May 30 Praise God for good health & for wonderful chiropractor care from a fellow believer

May 31 Pray for the next 3 days of strategy meetings in Nairobi to be led by God’s Spirit & be fruitful

Daniel’s high school graduation; Ariela in Cinderella; Texas family reunion

We are very proud of Daniel, our 2026 graduate! We will celebrate with Daniel and two of his friends, who are also graduating, from the school our kids attend on Wednesdays. Daniel will continue the work he loves, learning and honing his skills in plumbing, electrical, and HVAC at PS Property Services in Blue Springs, MO. We are delighted that he will continue to live at home!

Ariela is performing in the Cinderella musical at their school, Mighty Roots Academy. She does a great job acting and singing (see the pictures below). This Saturday will be her second performance.

Ariela as villager (far right)

We’ve been traveling recently. Todd preached and gave a missions update at Graham Union Church in Graham, Missouri. We visited Todd’s mom in her nursing home in Oklahoma City, OK, and then went on to Dallas, TX, for a family reunion with Pam’s side of the family. It was a special time for Pam and her three sisters to be together, and for us to catch up with our Texas nephews, nieces, and their spouses. A highlight for Ariela was a horse-riding lesson from her cousin! We all visited the Dallas/Ft. Worth National Cemetery, where Pam’s mom and Dad, Mal and Barbie Hughes, are buried. This was our first time seeing their finished headstones (see pictures below).

We are plugging away at translating 2 Samuel in the Gurbet language. We’re thankful that Goran, one of the Gurbet translators, was healthy enough today to join us online for our regular Wednesday session. Thank you for continuing to pray for him as he battles health issues with his breathing and autoimmune system. We’ve also made good progress translating Acts and James into the Macedonian Arli language during our Friday online sessions.

Thank you for being on our team for the Kingdom!

Todd & Pamala

We’re back from Serbia. Pray for the distributed New Testaments to bear much fruit!

On a hill above one of the Roma settlements

Meeting with the translation team for the Bayash language

A wonderful NT dedication service

Thank you for praying for our trip to Serbia. We praise God for what he did during those days and are so excited that the New Testament was distributed to so many people!

  • Please pray that the Lord will use His Word in these three languages to draw many Roma to Christ and to edify and teach the believers.
  • Pray that the Lord will use not only the printed books, but also the audio recordings, which are freely available online and in an app.
  • Please also pray for our summer outreach in Croatia planned for June 10-20. We have two people committed to joining our family on the trip, and at least four people who are praying about coming with us. Please pray that the Lord will provide the summer teamers we need, and the finances they need to raise to join us ($2500 each).

Thank you so much for your encouragement, prayers, and support!

Todd & Pamala

Distribution of the NT in one of the local Roma churches

The New Testaments are in the hands of the people now!

God has answered your prayers! The New Testament dedication and distribution in three languages (Arli, Gurbet and Chergash) was very successful! People left the meetings encouraged and motivated in the eternal, impactful role that they have played in the work thus far. It is motivating to everyone working on the OT in these languages, and those still working on the NT in other languages where we have projects underway. We all feel dependent on the Lord and motivated to pray that the seed of the Word of God will bear fruit in the lives of the Roma who have and will receive copies of these New Testaments.

Tuesday evening we enjoyed warm hospitality with loads of food in the home of the national director, a dear Roma friend and key translator. Wednesday was International Day of Roma (April 8), which we celebrated in a Roma settlement, where we distributed NTs, accompanied by (very loud!) live Roma music and folk dancing. Tonight (Thursday) we will have another distribution for the congregation of a local church.

A special joy was meeting in person with the newly recruited team for the Bayash language. (We had finished Luke with a previous team several years ago.) They have now begun in Mark to translate the rest of the New Testament.

After walking through the oldest Roma settlement in Leskovac, Serbia, our teammates lead us to the top of a hill where there was a monument (see the last picture below) in remembrance of the 320 Roma men, including relatives of three of our Bible translators, who were rounded up and executed by the Nazis in 1941. (This was in retaliation for two Nazi officers whom the local Serbs killed in a bombing–300 Roma lives to pay for two Nazi deaths!) We stood in a circle, holding hands, and prayed. The prayers were led by Roma, forgiving their oppressors and praying that God would use Roma to reach the other Europeans for Christ. It was a powerful moment.

We’ve enjoyed meals with our translators and their families and many co-workers from South Africa, Slovakia and the US who have invested in this Bible translation program. Below are pictures of the presentations and distributions of the NTs and some of the wonderful food we’ve enjoyed and sights we have seen.

At 3:15 a.m. tomorrow morning, we will leave from our hotel, pick up a colleague who traveled from Dallas, and drive to Belgrade, Serbia, to catch our flights (Belgrade to Zurich to Chicago to Kansas City). Please pray for safe travels, good health, quick adjustment back to the time zone in the US (a seven-hour difference) and that our luggage will arrive on time.

Gratefully, Todd & Pamala

Arrived in Serbia!

Hello from Serbia, where Pamala and I arrived yesterday. We’re thankful for safe travel, our bags coming through without a hitch, and good sleep on our first night despite jet lag. We enjoyed the warm fellowship of friends/colleagues who live in Belgrade, Serbia, Eric and Susan. They were on our team in Bosnia 22 years ago, studying language, and have been dear friends ever since. We hadn’t seen them for seven years, so it was wonderful to catch up. They are pictured with us below.

Since we flew through Atlanta, where Matthew lives, he came to meet us at the airport, where we had coffee and pastries and caught up for an hour. See the picture below.

The reason we came to Serbia is to celebrate the completion of the New Testament in three Roma languages: Arli, Gurbet, and Chergash. Tomorrow there will be a dedication and distribution, and we’ll be sure to share pictures with you of the event. It is a huge milestone, marking many years of labor, and we praise God for bringing it to completion.

Please thank God with us for a safe and smooth trip.

Please pray that God will be glorified through the events of the next few days at the NT dedication and distribution, and our time visiting with the translators and other colleagues involved in this Bible translation work.

Thank you for your prayers,

Todd & Pamala