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Pray for
the stamina and health of translators, co-translators, their families and
their children.
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Pray that
scheduling of furloughs, administrative duties, and other urgent tasks will
not interfere.
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Pray that
aging parents, education of children, and family duties will not be neglected.
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Pray for
translators having to leave the field or nationals having to return to school.
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Pray for
the finances needed to support the translators, pay the expenses, and publish
the books.
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Pray for
final decisions on key terms to be acceptable to all concerned.
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Pray for
the safety of manuscripts and for involvement and consensus of church
denominations on wording, writing and printing.
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Pray for
agreement regarding alphabets and alternate wordings due to dialect
differences.
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Pray for
required authorizations and approvals by church authorities and governments
will be obtained.
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Pray for
translations being done in secret to protect lives of those involved and their
families.
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Pray for
the timing of and survival from hurricanes, cyclones, floods, earthquakes and
volcanoes.
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Pray
against wars and insurrections that disrupt the work.
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Pray
against the outbreak of persecution against the mother-tongue workers
involved.
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Pray that
those involved in the translation will not fall into sin that would nullify
their efforts.
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Pray
against subversive political forces that make it impossible to live and work
in the village.
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Pray
against theft and destruction of computers, printers, homes and translation
centers.
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Pray
against technical failures of computers, storage disks, copiers, printers and
service items.
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Pray for
readers to be available to check on the acceptability of the translation for
the community.
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Pray for
sufficiently trained consultants to check the work and avoid delays in
obtaining final approval.
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Pray for
accuracy of typesetters, often working in a language they do not understand.
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Pray that
proofreaders will catch and correct errors that would mar the translation.
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Pray for
printers, that inking, pagination, binding, may result in clear, usable,
durable books.
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Pray that
paper for printing may be available when the camera-ready copy arrives.
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Pray that
damage, loss in transit and delays in customs will not occur during the
shipping process.