It is amazing how involved translation is! Take for instance yesterday when Mark, Luis and Arcesio came across this verse to revise in the book of Luke: Luke 10:19 “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions,..” They had to determine which word to use for “power”: soul power/thoughts, power of […]
Please pray for our Guahibo missionary team from Venezuela who will make a trip tomorrow to a town in Colombia to teach needy Guahibos a ways from that town. The couples will split and while the men, Virgilo and Alex, are teaching the men, their wives, Elsa (left) and Rosalvina (right) will teach the ladies […]
I would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for our NTM pilots who were willing to risk their lives for us in the years we worked with possible threats of kidnapping from the enemies of the Gospel here in Colombia. We knew that all it would take was a radio call to ask for our […]
We have come to the half way point of our translation factory here. Please pray for much wisdom and progress for Luis, Arcesio and Mark to be able to finish the book of Hebrews in the next two weeks. They finished the last half of the book of 2. Cor which was very hard and […]
It impressed me how two girls, one a national Colombian and another our Guahibo co-translator’s daughter, when they met for the first time in our house the other day, there were no barriers, tho neither could speak each other’s language! They went right to playing together and enjoying their time together. Oh, if we […]
My work has begun in earnest for possibly the next 7 weeks as our two co-translators, Arcesio and Luis and Luis’s 7 year old daughter, Yenci, arrived this afternoon to do the revision of the last part of 1 Corinthians and the book of Hebrews. Would appreciate your prayers as this is an intense time. I […]