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Bible Translation

The Luke Partnership

There is an interesting article on the Lausanne World Pulse website entitled: ‘The Luke Partnership: A First Step in Evangelism, Church Planting and Discipleship.’ The Luke Partnership is a joint project of The Seed Company (a Wycliffe Bible Translators affiliate), the Jesus Film Project and SIL International. Regular readers of the blog will know that […]

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Do Not Use

New Look Jesus Film

As you know, Sue works on projects in Madagascar which aim to translate the Gospel of Luke and the Jesus film script into languages which don’t yet have any of the BIble. This is part of a movement to translate the Jesus film into as many languages as possible (see the full list here). However, […]

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Observations

Sitting at the back

I’m sitting at the back of a strategic planning workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand, copying material onto CDs for the participants to take away and half listening to the session. It’s been interesting to travel with Eddie on this trip, seeing him ‘do his stuff’: explaining various planning processes and demonstrating the art of group […]

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Reviews

Cyclone Ivan

Nearly 145,000 people have been left homeless by a cyclone that tore through Madagascar, killing 44 people. The figures double previous estimates of the havoc wreaked by the category three cyclone and have raised fears of a humanitarian catastrophe. Cyclone Ivan struck the island’s east coast last Sunday, and was followed by torrential rains which […]

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Bible Translation Languages Madagascar

Bible Translation in Action

A few days ago Sue wrote; “I don’t know why I feel so tired”. Well, this video proves that she had earned the right to feel tired. In this two minute clip she isn’t checking a translation for quality – which is the normal consultant’s role – but rather helping the team to produce a […]

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Madagascar

Lemurs

From Sue’s weekend foray into a lemur park.

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Bible Translation Madagascar

The End of a Workshop

I’m not sure why I’m feeling so tired – I felt like going to bed at about 7.30 tonight, but we had a staff meeting and then I needed to do some email. I think it must be that translation checking is very intensive and demands a huge amount of concentration moving back and forth […]

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Various Things

This is another of those heading-off-in-different-directions days. Dave is in Bristol, Sam in Southampton, Sue in Madagascar and tonight I fly to Kenya for a staff meeting. Unfortunately, the taxi driver thought I was flying this morning and came to pick me up at four am! In the mean time, this video about Ivory Coast […]

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Languages

Can you close the door?

What could be simpler than asking someone to close the door you mightthink? But whenever you try and translate something from one language to another you come across the phenomenon of language and culture beingso closely bound together that they are almost impossible to separate. Let me give you an example. Here in Madagascar, someone […]

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Bible Translation Madagascar Mission

The Church In Madagascar

As Sue starts to think about packing for her next trip, I thought this quote from The Penguin History of the Church: History of Christian Missions by Stephen Neil might interest you: When a reckoning was made it was found that the Christians were four times as many as they had been at the beginning […]