KEN AND KATHY SATORIUS
Missionaries to Senegal, West Africa
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LATEST UPDATE FROM KEN AND KATHY SATORIUS
AUGUST 2011 UPDATE
Dear Praying Friends,
Thank you for remembering us and our Budik brothers and sisters in Christ. PRAY as I make another trip back to Senegal to spend time with them. Kathy and I leave for Georgia on Saturday to spend a couple days with our daughter Linda and family there. Then on Monday August 22 I leave for Senegal from Atlanta, arriving in Dakar at 6 a.m. on Tuesday. On Thursday I will be driving 12 hours to Kédougou, the town nearest the
Budik work. PRAY for alertness and safety as I travel.
PRAY that the time I'll have with the Budik believers, and especially the
four men who have been carrying the teaching load during this time, will be profitable and encouraging for me and them. This is the rainy season when the Budiks are very busy, spending all day in their fields planting and tending to their crops. PRAY particularly that Pityan and Nyano will be able to get free to help every day with the checking and correcting of the Bible translation and teaching material that I've been working on here in the States.
PRAY also for Kathy as she continues to stay with her dad and care for him during these six weeks that I'll be gone. I arrive back in Atlanta on
October 3.
Thank you for partnering with us to make God's Word available to the Budik
people.
In His service,
Ken and Kathy Satorius
NTM/Senegal
ABOUT KEN & KATHY...
"We both grew up in “churched” homes but did not understand our need for a Savior until after we were married and joined a Bible study in the home of a friend. A year later after attending a missions conference in our area, we were both challenged to serve the Lord taking His Word to those who have never heard. After several years of training with New Tribes Mission, we left for Senegal, West Africa with our 15 month old son in 1979. During these years we have had the privilege of analyzing the previously-unwritten Budik language and its grammar and making an alphabet, writing simple readers to teach the people to read their own language, and now translating God’s Word into the Budik language and writing lessons on each book to teach them. Only 2 Corinthians is left to be translated of the New Testament, although we are in the process of revising what we did in the beginning. In the Old Testament, Genesis, a lot of Exodus, Ruth, Jonah, parts of Job, and portions of many other books are done or underway."
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