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

Our daily prayer calendar for April 2026

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April 1 Pray for wisdom & insight as Pam writes the Bible story skits for our Roma VBS in Croatia this summer

April 2 Pray for 4 or more summer teamers to commit soon to going to Croatia with us June 10-20, 2026

April 3 Pray the Lord will provide the $2,000 per month that we lack in monthly support pledges

April 4 Pray for full one-time financial support for us & the rest of the team to cover the outreach trip to Croatia this summer

April 5 Pray for Todd & Pam flying to Serbia today to attend the dedication & distribution of the newly printed NT in 3 languages

April 6 Pray we will be a blessing to our Pioneers colleagues of 22 years as they host us in Serbia before the NT distribution

April 7 Praise that we can see Sergej & Željka & the Bible translators in Serbia during the NT dedication & distribution

April 8 Pray for good attendance & enthusiasm at the NT dedication & distribution today in Leskovac, Serbia

April 9 Pray for health & safety for Daniel & Ariela, & that they will be a blessing to those they are with this week

April 10 Pray for safety as Todd & Pam fly home from Serbia today, for good conversations & quick recovery from jet lag

April 11 Praise God for the people receiving God’s Word in their own mother tongues & for all who helped finance & translate it

April 12 Pray for each of our children to know & walk closely with the Lord & attend a Bible-teaching church regularly

April 13 Pray for wisdom for Todd, considering writing a manual to help other Bible translators & a manual for the study of Greek lexicology

April 14 Pray for Todd as he studies to check the Gurbet translation of 2 Samuel

April 15 Pray for wisdom for Todd & the Gurbet team editing their translation of 2 Samuel

April 16 Pray that Matthew’s insurance will approve an electronic prosthetic arm for him this year

April 17 Pray for wisdom for Todd & the Macedonian Arli team editing their translation of Acts, James & Gospel of John

April 18 Pray for the new team of Bayash translators for wisdom as they begin translating in the New Testament

April 19 Pray for Todd as he preaches at Graham Union Church, Graham, MO & we give our missions update there

April 20 Pray for the Chergash team as they translate 1-2 Samuel & 1-2 Kings & for the consultant helping them

April 21 Pray for the Serbian Arli team as they translate 1-2 Samuel & 1-2 Kings & for the consultant helping them

April 22 Pray God will raise up Roma to translate the Bible into the Ludari language (only Luke has been translated)

April 23 Pray for safety traveling to TX for a family reunion & that we will be a blessing to them & those we visit on the way

April 24 Praise God for Pam’s sisters & families who love God & faithfully minister for Him

April 25 Praise God that we can see Pam’s mom’s gravestone for the first time today; praise for the missions vision she & Dad imparted & lived

April 26 Pray for safe travel home & good final weeks of this school year for Ariela in 9th grade & Daniel graduating from high school

April 27 Pray for visas for our friends, a missionary family of 4, to be able to live & work with Roma in Slavonski Brod, Croatia

April 28 Pray for complete healing for Goran, the main translator for the Gurbet language, from breathing & immunity issues

April 29 Pray for Ariela as she acts in the Cinderella musical today & Saturday & shares Jesus with her friends at school

April 30 Pray for Todd studying to check the Macedonian Arli translation of the Gospel of John, Revelation & Colossians

We finished 1 Samuel in Gurbet! (Lost [and found] in translation, installment #19)

This week, I finished the consultant (quality assurance) check of 1 Samuel with the Gurbet language team. As soon as they run the final checks for punctuation, spelling, and formatting, and do one more read-through, this will be published to the Internet and available for the world to see! We love it when each verse of the Bible is translated, but it is always special to finish an entire book.

Samuel anoints Saul as king

Whenever we translate, our goal is always for the meaning of the text to be clear to those who will read or listen to it. Since many phrases are unfamiliar to those who have not grown up reading the Bible and attending church, we work hard to ensure they can grasp the implied information that the Bible’s original readers would have known intuitively. Here are a few examples from our work in 1 Samuel.

In 1 Samuel 28:6, it says that the LORD did not answer Saul’s request for guidance “by dreams, nor through the Urim, nor through prophets.” Because some will not know that the Urim was one of two stones (Urim and Thummim) used by the priest, like lots, to determine God’s will, we translated the phrase as “nor through the Urim stone.”

First Samuel has many references to the “ephod”. The word “ephod” would be meaningless to many of our readers. Some Croatian translations say “vest”, but we made the meaning clearer by translating “the priest’s vest”.

Sometimes the lack of clarity comes not from a single word but from a cultural or background issue unfamiliar to today’s Roma readers. For example, the draft translation of Gurbet of 1 Samuel 4:12 said, “That day a Benjaminite escaped from the battle in Shiloh, his clothes were torn and on his head was dust.” However, readers might think the man just happened to be dirty or ragged from the war or from running, and might miss the symbolic meaning of his appearance. We made this clear by adjusting our translation to say “… His clothes were torn and on his head he had put dirt/ashes to show his sorrow.

Another unclear verse is 1 Samuel 26:19c, where David is speaking to Saul while he is fleeing for his life from him: “Now they have driven me from my part in the LORD’s land, saying: ‘Go and serve other gods.’” The participle “saying” in Hebrew can sometimes have a clarifying meaning, such as “in other words” or “that is”. Here, David is saying that Saul, by chasing him and driving him out of the land of Israel and away from the land of the tabernacle, is forcing him into a pagan land where he cannot worship properly. We made this clearer in our translation this way: “Now they have driven me from my part in the LORD’s land. This is like they are saying to me: ‘Go and serve other gods.’”

Samuel anoints David as king

I hope these examples help you see some of the issues we deal with as we translate the Scriptures for the Roma who do not yet have the full Bible in their language.

Praise God with us for the completion of 1 Samuel in Gurbet, and continue to pray for wisdom and efficiency as we move on in the OT, translating 2 Samuel and 1-2 Chronicles next.

Thank you for your prayers and support!

a Dead Sea Scrolls portion of 1 Samuel from Cave 4 at Qumran

FINANCIAL UPDATE:

Please pray that the Lord will provide the remaining $2,000 per month we lack in financial support pledges. If you would like to give toward this need, please see the giving information below. Thank you so much!

Our financial support; our trip to Croatia

We are so grateful to you all for your prayers for us and your faithful financial support! We wanted to mention that, due to increases in the cost of living (health insurance, vision and dental insurance, groceries, utilities, car insurance, and other car expenses, etc.), we now lack $2,000 per month to have our full monthly support pledged. If you would like to donate as a one-time gift or monthly, you can give here via the link below or using the information at the bottom of this page.

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Watch on YouTube: last year’s on site report from Croatia

Yesterday we bought our tickets for Todd, Pamala, Daniel, and Ariela to go to Croatia for our summer outreach, June 10-20, 2026. We are speaking each weekend at supporting churches, inviting people to join us. We’d like to have firm commitments by the end of April.

We still do not have anyone else committed to joining us on the trip, but after speaking with our teammates in Croatia, they said they would still love to have us come. We will adjust the type of outreach we do to best accommodate the size of our team.

Please pray for these specifics:

  1. Pray for Pam as she writes the curriculum and schedule for the summer outreach, to know which activities to include and for insight to write the Bible stories.
  2. We normally do ministry in two Roma villages in Croatia, and the team needs wisdom on whether to add a third village. It is larger than the other two, speaks both of the Roma languages we work with there, and yet we have not had ministry there before. Our teammates will be visiting the village and exploring options for ministry there. We have Roma friends who have family in that village.
  3. We now have films about the life of Christ in both languages used in the villages, Bayash and Ludari. Pray for wisdom and open doors to use these films for evangelism, so we can reach adults as well as children. Pray we can get permission to show the film in the community center.
  4. Pray for the Lord to provide the other summer teamers that he wants to join us. We normally have at least 4 others come with us. The cost is $1,000 per person, plus airfare (which is around $1,500 per person). We have recently been speaking at churches in Oklahoma and Iowa, and at Calvary University’s prayer meeting to recruit. Let us know if you or someone you know is interested in joining us.

Thank you for your prayers! Below are a few new pictures, including Pam’s birthday celebration earlier this month, one of our visits to see my mom in Oklahoma City, a picture of Daniel when he visited our teammates in Croatia, and also our teammate Nikola after he and the other translators received training to record and produce the Jesus film in their languages.

Blessings in Christ,

Todd & Pamala

Pictures from Daniel’s trip to Croatia

Thank you for praying for Daniel during his trip to Croatia! He is back safe and sound, and when asked to describe the trip, he told us: “It was all amazing!”

The team of 31 that Daniel went with managed to get a ton of work done. Their main goal was to complete as much of the finishing work as possible to help bring the church’s halfway house (for kids transitioning out of the Croatian foster care system as adults, and for single mothers) closer to opening for business. The team expected to finish one or one and a half floors, but ended up finishing all three! They laid flooring, installed lights, and installed some tiling.

Additionally, they landscaped the church’s backyard, added storage containers and a walking path, and upgraded the church’s video recording system for their worship services. Below are many pictures of Daniel and the rest of the team. Thank you again for your prayers and financial support for Daniel!

Our daily prayer calendar for March 2026

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March 1 Today is Elizabeth’s 31st birthday! Pray for a growing walk with Christ & praise for the joys of motherhood!

March 2 Today is Pamala’s birthday! Pray for God’s daily wisdom to love all those around her.

March 3 Pray for Daniel to adjust quickly back to US time (7-hour difference) & stay healthy

March 4 Pray for wisdom for Matthew choosing which company in Atlanta to use for a prosthetic arm

March 5 Pray as we speak at Calvary University’s Haystack prayer meeting tonight, for God to raise up missionaries from the group

March 6 Pray for wisdom for Todd & the Macedonian Arli team checking their translation of Acts, James & the Gospel of John

March 7 Pray God will supply great summer teamers this year again, June 10-20, for our outreach in Croatia

March 8 Pray as Todd preaches at One Hope Community Church, Oklahoma City, OK, this morning

March 9 Pray for the new team of Bayash translators as they begin translating in the New Testament

March 10 Pray for wisdom for Todd as he studies to check the Macedonian Arli translation of James & Gospel of John

March 11 Pray for wisdom for Todd & the Gurbet team checking 1-2 Samuel in their draft translation

March 12 Pray for wisdom for Todd helping develop growth plans for those becoming Bible translation consultants

March 13 Pray for safety & a great time with friends for Daniel on a camping trip this weekend

March 14 Pray as we travel to Iowa to attend a friend’s wedding & to speak at a supporting church, to be a blessing & for safe travels

March 15 Pray for us as we speak at Walker Bible Church, Walker, IA, this morning, to bless them & grow their hearts for global Bible translation

March 16 Pray for each of our children to know & walk closely with the Lord & attend a Bible-teaching church regularly

March 17 Pray for Todd as he studies to check the Gurbet translation of 1-2 Samuel

March 18 Pray that Matthew’s insurance will approve an electronic prosthetic arm for him this year

March 19 Today is Jonathan’s 34th birthday! Pray for faith to understand God’s greatness & love.

March 20 Today is Daniel’s 18th birthday! Pray for safety on the job, & for great friendships with other godly young people

March 21 Pray for wisdom & insight as Pam writes the Bible story skits for our Roma VBS in Croatia this summer

March 22 Pray for us speaking at the college/career Sunday school class at Heritage Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, OK, today

March 23 Pray for 4-8 summer teamers to commit by the end of this month to come to Croatia June 10-20

March 24 Pray for the Serbian Arli team as they translate 1-2 Samuel & 1-2 Kings & for the consultant helping them

March 25 Pray God will raise up Roma to translate the Bible into the Ludari language (only Luke has been translated)

March 26 Pray for the Chergash team as they translate 1-2 Samuel & 1-2 Kings & for the consultant helping them

March 27 Pray for Daniel & Ariela as they attend Young Christians’ Weekend at Silver Dollar City with our church youth

March 28 Pray for a successful dedication & distribution of the completed NT in 3 languages on April 8th in Leskovac, Serbia

March 29 Pray for spiritual growth as our youth group studies Isaiah 40:31 on their trip, to bond well & for traveling safety

March 30 Pray for visas for our friends, a missionary family of 4, to be able to live & work with Roma in Slavonski Brod, Croatia

March 31 Pray for complete healing for Goran, the main translator for the Gurbet language, from breathing & immunity issues

Daniel in Croatia; summer team wanted; translation progress

Seeing Daniel off at the airport in Kansas City

DANIEL IN CROATIA: We are so proud of Daniel, who is in Croatia for 10 days working with a team to help finish a halfway house being built by the church we attended in Croatia (where he was baptized when we lived there)! He is working hard to lay flooring, run electrical work, and whatever else is needed as he has joined 30 others from Kansas City and Nashville for this work team. We’re thrilled that he can use the skills he’s been learning on the job as a contractor here in Kansas City. Thank you to each of you who donated generously to send him on this trip and who are praying for him.

Above: Hard at work
Below: team supper out at Croatian restaurant

WANTED: SUMMER TEAM FOR CROATIA: Speaking of Croatia, we are still in need of 4 or more volunteers to come with our family, June 10-20, to Croatia to run a Vacation Bible School and tween/teen day camp for Roma. The cost is $1,000 per person, plus airfare which is usually around $1,500 per person. Those who join this 10-day outreach will lead Bible songs, act out Bible stories in skits, assist with crafts, and play organized games with the children. During the teen camp, the men will preach a sermon, and the women will share their testimonies, both through translation. Ideally, we have found that those aged 18-late 20s are the best fit for the team. We also need an older adult to cook for the team. Those under 18 who are accompanied by a family member or an adult sibling have done a great job and are welcome to apply.

UPCOMING NEW TESTAMENT DEDICATION: We are excited that the New Testament has been completed and printed in the Serbian Arli, Gurbet, and Chergash languages! We (Todd & Pam) will be going to Serbia in April for the dedication and distribution of the NT in these three languages. We are proud of our translation teams and look forward to being with them and rejoicing with them in this milestone!

Above: Gurbet team (Maki, Goran, Emrush)
Below: table of contents, text, maps

TRANSLATION PROGRESS: In these three languages, we are also making good headway in the OT, currently in 1 Samuel.

And in Macedonian Arli, we recently completed the consultant (quality assurance) check to approve Luke for print, which is the 6th language in which I have helped complete this gospel.

Thank you for your faithful prayers and financial support that makes all this possible!

Todd & Pamala (Daniel & Ariela) Price

Wanted: Summer Teamers for Croatia, June 10-20, 2026

Starting at 50:00, watch “The Harvest is Plentiful, but the Laborers are Few”, Matthew 9:35-38 (a sermon preached February 15, 2026, at Metropolitan Bible Church, Oklahoma City, OK)

WANTED: SUMMER TEAMERS FOR CROATIA

What: helpers to run VBS & teen/tween camp
Who: 4-8 people, 18-years of age or older, who love kids & the Bible
When: June 10-20, 2026
Where: Sisak, Croatia
How much: $2,500 per person
Contact: Todd (816) 265-1237, toddlprice@gmail.com or Pamala (816) 258-4379, pamala.price@gmail.com

Each summer, we lead a team to Croatia to run an outdoor Vacation Bible School in two Roma (Gypsy) villages and a teen/tween day camp for Roma youth. Those who join this 10-day outreach will lead Bible songs, act out Bible stories in skits, assist with crafts, and play with the children in organized games. During the teen camp, the men will preach a sermon, and the women will share their testimonies, both through translation. Ideally, we have found that those between 18 and the late 20s are the best fit for the team. We also need an older adult to cook for the team. Those under 18 have done a great job when accompanied by a family member or an adult sibling, and are welcome to apply.

Watch these videos to learn more about the Croatia summer trip: