Dear Praying Friends,

Returning from Cochabamba, Bolivia was the end of a lovely chapter in our lives. We have finished all there is to do with the New Testament for the Peruvian Kashinawas, except just wait for it to be delivered. Sounds good, doesn't it! We worked with the personnel at the print shop of the Bolivian Bible Society for five weeks, doing everything that we could do to get it ready for the presses. Our part is done, all done, really done1 They were photographing it for publication before we arrived back in Peru, a long bus ride for us, and now we just will wait for it to be delivered to the jungle city of Pucallpa by truck. Please don't think it was just that easy, for many people worked with us and are going to continue working on the New Testament, to make it the best they can. We are planning dedication-presentation services in some of the Kashinawa communities on August 10 and 11, happy days, to be sure!

On June 1, we are expecting a group of Kashinawas who live in Brazil to arrive to begin working with us and our co-translators on an adaptation for them, using an alphabet that is compatible with the Brazilian Portuguese alphabet and we will look for needed dialectical changes. We have already worked with the Bolivian Bible Society's computer technician to make the alphabet changes necessary for Brazil and the manuscript looks really good. We are going to have to get used to reading a very different looking text. Here is an example of what we will have.
This is Mark 16:20, first in the NIV: Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.

This is Mark 16:20 for the Kashinawa of Peru:
janua Jesúsun tsumabu kainbaini bukin mae tibi anu yusinkubaunaibun nukun Xanen Ibu Jesusun jatu medabewakin jawen kushipawen jawada unanti dami atimaska chanima jatu uinmakubainibukiaki.

This is Mark 16:20 for the Kashinawa of Brazil:
hanua Jesusü tsumabu kaïbaini bukï mae tibi anu yusïkubaunaibü nukü Shanë Ibu Jesusü hatu merabewakï hawë kuxipawë hawara unäti dami atimaska txanima hatu uïmakubainibukiaki. (Webmaster's note: all the letters having an umulaut should have a tilde instead.)

A quick perusal will show that it is quite different to read, but it will sound exactly the same. We are excited to begin this next edition and will be flying from Pucallpa to Esperanza and then heading on upriver to Nueva Luz in late May, as soon as we finish up two other projects we are currently working on. And this Brazilian New Testament will then be followed by our working toward completing as much as we can of the Old Testament for them, with Dick and me each leading a team of co-translators.

We want to thank you for your faithful prayers and financial gifts for us and ask you to pray with us for the following:

• Thank the Lord that the New Testament for the Peruvian Kashinawas is finally in the printing process and that we think that the funds we have received are adequate to pay all the bills involved. This is another of the Lord's wonders that we have been privileged to see develop. Many of you have helped in this and we thank you very sincerely.
• Pray for the group of Brazilian Kashinawas coming to our village of Nueva Luz to begin working with us about June 1, that they be those who are from more distant rivers and familiar with the variety of dialectical changes to be considered.
• Pray for the Lord to fence in the translation team and us from Satan's attacks. We are confronting him with the advancement of the Scriptures. Claim Christ's protecting power along with us.
• Pray for good health and endurance for us all to work long hours with good concentration, so we can soon have the New Testament in the Brazilian alphabet ready for us to take to Brazil for manuscript preparation and publication by the Brazilian Bible Society, as we did in Bolivia.

May the Lord's overflowing blessings be upon each of you. And remember with us as I John 2:6 says:
"Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did."

Yours because of Calvary,
Sue for Dick and Sue Montag

Write to us at:
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Montag
ILV, Apartado 52
Pucallpa, Peru, SA
RMontag@mtwsa.org or dick-sue_montag@sil.org