Good News: Successful Translation Week
The week with our translation helpers went very well. Way beyond our expectations. We were able to finish ALL the material we had ready (nearly 800 verses of first draft, two steps covering the whole book of Mark, and much more!) The books of Romans, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and 1 John are ready to proofread a few times and then we can distribute some copies.
Ruben, the new kid on our translation helper block, fit right it, was comfortable working with us and the other guys, and he contributed a lot of good insight.
Best of all, we learned that our key terms are well-understood in his area’s dialect, so no changes need to be made to made the translation usable and accepted there!
Better News: Talking About Printing
We head to Manila tomorrow for some leadership meetings and while we are there, we will have an exciting, first-ever experience, something we’ve been looking forward to for the nearly 28 years we’ve been translating…
We head to Manila tomorrow for some leadership meetings and while we are there, we will have an exciting, first-ever experience, something we’ve been looking forward to for the nearly 28 years we’ve been translating…
We will start making arrangements for the printing of our New Testament!
A translator cannot wait until the last minute to start this process, so tomorrow we will be meeting with someone from SIL (Wycliffe Bible Translators) to talk about what needs to be done for us to turn our translation over to them for digital typesetting next year. That has to happen before the book goes to the printers.
So tomorrow we will start to learn what reformatting we have to do, who we need to be corresponding with, what the time table might be, how to go about selecting pictures for the New Testament, and a lot of other important information. We will also get an idea of some of our printing options and what the actual cost of printing will be.
So it’s not the last minute, but maybe it’s the next to the last minute for us!
We’re excited. God’s Word is that much closer to being in the Palawanos’ hands.
Thank you for your part in this.
Pray with us
- Praise for great week with the men
- Prayer for our meeting tomorrow
- For clear direction as to printing process
- Favorable (read: expedited!) schedule
Reaching Palawanos together with you,
-Bill and Donna
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