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April 2025 daily prayer calendar and “The Prices Write”

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April 1 Pray for Todd & the Serbian Arli team as they translate & consultant check Genesis

April 2 Pray for Todd grading the translators’ assignments for the lexicography course he recently taught them

April 3 Pray God will raise up 2 young men & 1 other adult who can fly from KC with us to Croatia in June to do VBS with our family

April 4 Pray for safety & edifying Young Christians’ Weekend for Daniel & Ariela at Silver Dollar City with our youth group

April 5 Pray for Todd flying to Kenya for safety, good health & quick adjustment to the time change with minimal jet lag

April 6 Pray for Todd in Kenya this whole week attending a workshop to learn how to train other consultants for Bible translation

April 7 Pray Matthew’s insurance will approve a new prosthetic arm for him this year

April 8 Pray for Mihal & the Aromanian team as they translate more books of the NT

April 9 Pray for $7,200 remaining to send our family to Croatia for our VBS outreach in June

April 10 Pray for the Serbian Arli, Chergash & Gurbet teams as they translate Genesis, Jonah, Ruth, Esther and Joshua

April 11 Pray for Pam leading worship for our Palm Sunday service this coming Sunday, with practice tomorrow

April 12 Pray for Todd flying home from Kenya for safety, health & good rest

April 13 Pray God will raise up a team to translate the rest of the NT in the Bayash language (only Luke has been done)

April 14 Pray for Todd as he studies Genesis & Matthew in preparation for consultant checks in Serbian Arli & Macedonian Arli

April 15 Pray for wisdom for Todd coaching, mentoring & training others to become Bible translation consultants

April 16 Pray for the Macedonian Arli, team as they translate the Gospel of Matthew

April 17 Pray for Todd for wisdom as he writes materials for training others who are becoming Bible translation consultants

April 18 Pray for Pam as she prepares & teaches the youth girls’ Sunday school class on Easter

April 19 Pray for Todd to be a blessing visiting his mom in the nursing home in Oklahoma City

April 20 Christ the Lord is risen today! Pray for His resurrection power to impact Roma in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro & N. Macedonia

April 21 Pray for Todd & the Macedonian Arli team as they translate & check chapters in Matthew

April 22 Pray for Todd & the other elders of our church, meeting tonight, to lead our church in a way that is always pleasing to the Lord

April 23 Pray for Todd leading a men’s Bible Study in 2 Peter at our church Wednesday evenings

April 24 Pray as we speak to the students at Calvary University that God will clarify their missions vision & grant them faith

April 25 Pray God will raise up a team to translate the rest of the NT in the Ludari language (only Luke has been done)

April 26 Pray as we travel to Douds, Iowa, today, to speak tomorrow

April 27 Pray as we speak at Zion Bible Church in Douds, Iowa, this morning

April 28 Pray for enough time for Todd to prepare for teaching regular Wednesday Bible studies & adult Sunday school classes

April 29 Pray for salvation for those of our children who still need Christ

April 30 Pray for spiritual growth, biblical worldview & godliness for each of our believing children

Atlanta: Daniel’s 17th birthday; Albania: “The man in white said I will translate the Bible…”

Above: Daniel’s 17th birthday, celebrating at Matthew’s house in Atlanta

Below: Our teammates, Andy and Lim, were in Atlanta and came to visit Pam, Daniel, Ariela, and Matthew

Thank you for praying for us. As I write this, Pamala, Daniel, and Ariela are in Atlanta, helping Matthew remodel his house. I am in Albania at the European conference for The Word for the World Bible Translators.

At the conference I am meeting with many of the Bible translators with whom I work over Zoom. It is very helpful to be face-to-face and be able to hang out and talk in person. (Pictured below are translators for the Serbian Arli, Chergash, Gurbet, Macedonian Arli and Albanian Aromanian language.)

We are also attending workshops on a unique approach to Bible translation geared toward oral communities, whether that be among people who cannot read or write, or those whose learning preference and style is oral, rather than written.

We are learning how this method works and exploring whether it would be a good approach for a couple of the languages we want to work in. We appreciate your prayers as we learn about this method and seek wisdom on whether to use it, perhaps for the Ludari language. If you recall, we translated 50 Bible stories and the Gospel of Luke into Ludari but did not have qualified translators or funding to continue the rest of the New Testament. Now, we are exploring the possibility of using Oral Bible Translation, which would provide new funding resources and can use translators with different qualifications. It would also require special training for me and others on the teams, and this is an exploratory first step.

In addition to meetings, it has been a joy to hear reports about what has been accomplished in Bible translation through our teams. One of the translations is here in Albania. As a young man, Stavri, one of the translators, had a dream in which he saw a man in white come to him and tell him that he would translate the Bible. Now, 40 years later, he is one of the translators for the Albanian Aromanian language. Their team has finished the Gospel of Mark, drafted most of the NT, and hopes to complete it by the end of this year. The other translator, Freddie, was converted 30 years ago in Germany and God put it on his heart to reach his own people in Albania. He is now leading this team.

I was able to meet the translators for a new language project in North Macedonia. It is the Arli language, which is similar to the Arli language of Serbia that we have been working on for years. One of the translators, Džonathan, told us that the greatest highlight of his life was hearing a portion from God’s Word in his heart language and being able to understand it. The other translator, Baki, shared how people are so excited when they hear Scripture in their own language for the first time. The team is currently translating Mark with another consultant and I will pick up with Matthew next.

It is humbling and inspiring to see how God is using His Word. Please keep us in your prayers.

Todd & Pamala (Daniel & Ariela) Price

Time-sensitive prayer requests regarding Atlanta, Albania and Croatia

Thank you that we can come to you with prayer requests (and praises!) and know that you will lift them up to our heavenly Father. Here are several that are time-sensitive, so we ask you to join us in prayer now, please:

Pamala, Daniel, and Ariela leave for Atlanta on a two-day drive to visit Matthew this morning. They’ll be gone for two weeks to help Matthew remodel his home’s basement. He has rented out the main floor, as planned, and now needs to finish the basement where he lives. Daniel is exceptionally gifted in helping with projects like this so will be in his element. Please pray for safe travels (four days of driving round trip), health and safety in remodeling work, and a refreshing, fun time with Matthew.
Matthew’s insurance denied his request for an electric prosthetic arm for the second time. You may recall that he has a prosthetic arm, but it is not electric and thus has to be operated by him physically shrugging or moving his other side. He has found it too cumbersome, so he has not used it much, except occasionally for cosmetic purposes. Please pray his insurance will approve a new prosthetic with an electronic elbow and hand. Now that some of his transferred nerves have grown (PTL for that!), his shoulder nerves could operate an electric elbow and arm.
I (Todd) am going to Albania for a week of meetings and training with colleagues from The Word for the World Bible Translators. Please pray for safety, good health, and a quick adjustment to the seven-hour time zone difference. Pray for me as I meet with the people I will supervise and mentor who are in training to become translation consultants. And pray for fruitful workshops where we will be taught how to translate the Bible using oral methods (we usually work with written texts only).
Praise God that last night we bought our plane tickets for our trip to Croatia to lead a team to put on a Vacation Bible School in two Roma villages and a teen day camp in June. We are very thankful for the three people joining our family on this trip. However, we really need two males, aged 18-upper 20s, who can play and interact with the Roma kids and prepare a short message for the Roma teens. Additionally, we have a few teenage girls who would like to come, but we need an adult to accompany them from Kansas City; our family will stay in Croatia for several extra days beyond the summer team, so we cannot fly back with them to KC. (The trip is June 18-28, 2025, and costs $1,000 per person plus airfare, which is currently running about $1,500 per person.)
We praise God for funds that have been given or pledged to send our family on this summer outreach to Croatia. Please pray for the remaining $7,200 we need. If you would like to donate to Pioneers for this, please designate your gift for account #151420 Croatia Summer Missions Project.
Lastly, praise God for a great answer to prayer: our car was in the shop and we were told the parts would not be in until Saturday. Since Pam and the kids will have our van in Atlanta starting today, this meant I would be left without a car when I am in KC before and after my Albania trip. We prayed and God kindly intervened. The parts “unexpectedly” came early, the shop fixed the car, and we picked it up yesterday evening before Pam left today!

Thank you for praying! Todd

A way to pray for us: 2 Thess 1:11-12

It is a great joy to know that you all pray for us. Pam and I do our best to send you specific prayer requests and praises, especially as part of our daily prayer calendar. Additionally, we would be very grateful if you would pray Scripture for us, for everyone on the teams doing Bible translation, and for the Roma who will listen to and read our Bible translations.

Paul gives us several specific prayers that we can pray. Our church is doing a teaching series through D. A. Carson’s book Praying with Paul, and I have taught a few of the lessons in our Sunday morning Equip Hour. You can listen to my lesson on 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 from our church’s website here.

Would you pray this for us? Thank you.

To this end we always pray for [name of person you are praying for], that our God may make [fill in name] worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in [fill in name], and [fill in name] in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

NB: 1) The passage is mislabeled on the website; 2) Unfortunately, in the recording, you cannot hear when someone else in class is speaking since only I had a microphone.

Podcast interview: The Translator

This weekend, I had the privilege of being interviewed about how we do Bible translation. Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2YrS8Nh6vI7GZ5YBkSnzXk?si=vhhYKx_6TYSFMUcJq0lmcA&nd=1&dlsi=6eab293d7086411e

The Prices Write (Our Daily Prayer Calendar), March 2025

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Guess who’s 21? Our Valentine.

Kirsten turned 21 on Valentine’s Day! We enjoyed celebrating her special day together.

The three girls got together to make Valentine’s cards. Elizabeth (due in late August) is feeling well. Ariela has enjoyed rock climbing with her American Heritage Girls troop. She also loved seeing the horses at our friends’ house, which we visited after speaking at their church in Grinnell, Iowa. These draft horses will be massive! See the pictures below.

Next week, via Zoom, I (Todd) will teach the Bible translators in Croatia and Serbia a course on lexicography (dictionary-marking).

Our Bible translation work is going very well in Genesis with the Arli language. We’ve checked chapters 1-10, and the translators are doing a very good job. I enjoyed ordering more commentaries to help me in the study of Genesis and other upcoming Old Testament books, which I’ll be checking in future consultations. See more pictures below.

In the coming months, I will mentor several people from Serbia, Slovakia, Australia, and Albania as they learn to become Bible translation consultants. We’ll be meeting together in Albania next month for our European conference for The Word for the World Bible Translators and will discuss their growth plans and needs as they learn to consult.

I’ve also been asked to consultant check the book of Matthew in a new-for-me language. It is also called Arli, but it is spoken in North Macedonia, as opposed to the Arli spoken in Serbia that we are working on in the Old Testament.

There are also opportunities for me to mentor others coming up the line to help them develop as translation consultants. I’d appreciate your prayers. Please pray:

for me as I check the (Serbian) Arli translation of Genesis.
for me as I prepare to check Matthew in North Macedonian Arli.
for wisdom for knowing which other consultants-in-training to help mentor, for details of when and how, and for adequate preparation.
for the Lord’s help and enablement in writing a training curriculum for mentoring these translation consultants.
for me and the students as I teach lexicography (dictionary-making) via Zoom next week in the mornings (their afternoons).

Thank you, Todd & Pamala

Kirsten (21), Pamala (?), Elizabeth (29), Ariela (13)

Books, books, and more books–the tools of the trade in Bible translation

What’s new with the kids?

L-R: Timothy, Ariela, Jonathan, Matthew, Todd, Pamala, Elizabeth, Stephen, Daniel, Kirsten

Knowing that you are praying for us and our family means so much to us. Thank you for your important ministry to all of us!

Here’s an update on the fam, followed by many pictures dating back to Christmas when we were together as a family with all the kids.

Ariela is 13 and in home school in the 8th grade. She loves her drama class at Mighty Roots Academy, which she and Daniel attend on Wednesdays. She is active in American Heritage Girls and with gymnastics and piano lessons. Daniel is 16 and in home school 11th grade. He enjoys plumbing, electrical, and HVAC work and hopes to be able to begin an apprenticeship in those fields next year. He’s active in jiu-jitsu and fixing everything that breaks down at our house, both inside and out!

Kirsten turns 21 this week. She lives locally, a half hour from us, and works as a hotel receptionist. Matthew is 26 and lives in Atlanta. He works for Equifax, designing apps and web pages. He is finishing out the lower level of his house and making improvements so he can have renters. This year, he hopes to get a prosthetic arm with an electronic elbow and hand.

Elizabeth is 29 and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and her husband Stephen is 30 and works for the KCPD. They recently bought their first house and are expecting our first grandchild in late August!

Jonathan, 32, is a senior computer engineer for Khan Academy and lives in Crescent City, CA, where he also owns a home with lots of garden space and some redwood trees. Timothy, 34, lives about 45 minutes from us in northern Kansas City and works for the Missouri Department of Social Services.