Do you have your 2012 calendar yet?  If you’re anything like me, you use multiple calendars for multiple purposes.  I keep appointments on my computer so I’ll get reminders.  *bing* “Dinner with the new librarian” reminds me that we’ve invited a new missionary to our home tonight!  I keep a “busy moms” calendar in a notebook with important dates as well as weekly menus and shopping lists.

  There’s a calendar on the wall where I keep information that helps me figure salaries at the end of each month for our guards and housekeeper.  Ben’s also using it to count down the days till Christmas and the arrivals of special friends.

Some calendars have pretty pictures, some have words of wisdom or Scripture.  But all my calendars have one thing in common — numerals are in Western script (1,2,3, etc.) and days/months are in English.

For the Fulani people living in and around Cameroon, the calendar looks very different.  Numerals are in a different script.  Not only are the names of days and months different, but the way to write them is different.  They are taught to read in Ajamiya script.   

One of the ministries of our organization, Evangelical Covenant International Partners (ECIP) is to publish Fulfulde materials in the Ajamiya script that is more familiar to them than our Roman script which you’re reading now.   We also help our colleagues working among the Fulani people by publishing calendars. 

This year each month’s page features a scene and Scripture from the story of Jonah’s life.

Pray for those working on literature for the Fulani people.  Pray that the stories on the calendars will accomplish the intended purpose. 

As the rain and the snow
 come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
 without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
 so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
 and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:10-11