6 weeks down...

Hard to believe we have been recording now for a month and a half already. Based on our current pace we still have about 18 weeks to go or to be more specific we should be finishing up right around the first or second week of December. That of course is dependent on being able to maintain our current pace while minimizing interruptions. This seems to be more and more of a challenge and something that we really could use prayer for.

While our narrators have done an excellent job, we simply keep running into one delay after another. Everything from interruptions from classes next door to random hardware issues to illnesses hindering team members, etc. Yesterday, for example, Pastor Kori was looking to finish his reading portion but came up a few chapters short simply because the team had continual interruptions from loud students in the classes going on next door. Several times the team was forced to stop for periods as long as 10-15 minutes waiting for things to quiet down. Also this week we again experienced random unexplainable hardware issues as one of the technicians laptop suddenly had all its audio drivers disappear. He has tried repairing from his backups and even drove to Pretoria to the Apple Store to have their techs work on it but to no avail. As a last resort he has had to completely reinstall the OS which we are hoping will solve the problem.

Needless to say all these things have caused quite a bit of frustration for the team! Please pray for protection over us, the team members, the equipment, the recordings, etc. Pray that these constant distractions from the enemy would cease and more importantly that they would be unable to keep us from finishing this good work!


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