{"id":1167,"date":"2020-05-06T11:36:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T03:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-heidi-bamford\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2020-05-06T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T03:36:17","slug":"rare-but-not-extinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-heidi-bamford\/2020\/05\/06\/rare-but-not-extinct\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare But Not Extinct"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Perhaps some of you read the same article I did; Volunteers discover 10 Pioneer-era Apple Types, Thought Extinct, in Forgotten Orchards Across the Pacific Northwest<\/em>. Apparently, there is a team of people who spend countless hours and travel hundreds of miles each year in search of more than 10,000 apple tree varieties that are no longer known to exist. The searchers find these forgotten trees in hay fields and in forests that have grown up around them. This past year they found 10.\u00a0 When they make a find, they work to propagate the variety and make it available to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These bananas are the closest we\ncome to apples here, so you may be wondering why I am talking about forgotten\napple varieties. The answer is that the article illustrates where some of my\ntime went last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ethnos360 and SIL we have\ndedicated workers who are figuratively tramping around the world searching for\ntranslations that were done before the digital age really took off and have\nnever been backed up in a digital archive where they are available for those\nwho need them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One such translation is the Adasen\nNew Testament done by Mark and Rachel Steffen.  A first-rate translation that I find a very\nuseful reference as I translate the Southern Isnag Bible. I was given the\nAdasen text files years ago, and since then they have resided on my computer. I\ncan\u2019t decide if my hard drive is more like a forest or a hayfield.  Probably a forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week I was contacted by those\nworking with the translation database that Ethnos360 and SIL use to store Bible\ntranslation.  They were wanting to bring\nthe Adasen translation formatting up to modern standards so they would not get\nlost over time and they tracked it down to my computer. The challenge for me\nhas been getting the formatting up to modern standards, but thanks to patient\nhelp from Terresa Hiebert, we have made good progress and I think we are almost\nthere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prayer and Praise:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Praise the Lord that the Adasen have God\u2019s word\nin their language and that it is available digitally for the next generation.  (Print copies are available as well.)<\/li>
  • Praise the Lord that our pilot, Zach, was able\nto purchase an airplane ticket out of the country.  Please pray that his trip home to his family\nwill go smoothly. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Thank you for your prayers for our\nsafety and the safety of the Isnag people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    God bless,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Jonathan & Heidi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Perhaps some of you read the same article I did; Volunteers discover 10 Pioneer-era Apple Types, Thought Extinct, in Forgotten Orchards Across the Pacific Northwest. Apparently, there is a team of people who spend countless hours and travel hundreds of miles each year in search of more than 10,000 apple tree varieties that are no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-heidi-bamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-heidi-bamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-heidi-bamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-heidi-bamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-heidi-bamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-heidi-bamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-heidi-bamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-heidi-bamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-heidi-bamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}