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  For the last couple of months, we’ve been preparing for the Foundational Bible Teaching Workshop in Paraguay (colored orange above). I’ve been translating written material and will be interpreting for the Spanish-speaking participants from different Latin American countries. The purpose of this workshop is to help church-planters produce Bible-teaching curriculum in the tribal language of […]

Can you find me in the crowd up there? I’m one of the bald guys on the floor in front. I won’t go through the list of attendees, but there were church planters from all over the hemisphere and also from other parts of the world, some of which would prefer not to be identified […]

Greetings from green Colombia! It’s been so long since I’d been here that I’d almost forgotten how lush the vegetation is. The weather has been really nice, probably in the low 70’s during the day and maybe mid-60’s at night. A little too chilly for sleeping on the porch in the hammock, especially since it […]

We hope you enjoyed a special remembrance of Jesus’ sacrifice, burial and resurrection at Easter. Tomorrow morning, I’ll be heading out to spend two weeks in Colombia. As I mentioned in our previous newsletter, I was asked by our regional leadership to serve as interpreter for a Church Planting Workshop and a Regional Leadership Forum. […]

…Venezuela… In the beautiful tropical nation where I (Steve) grew up, average citizens have turned out in large numbers to protest food shortages, rising crime and discontent with their leaders. Some of them have been met with violence. The situation is very precarious for our Christian brothers and sisters there, including national and expatriate church […]

Our year-end festivities began with an Irwin family Thanksgiving reunion. The siblings travelled from Atlanta (Sandy & Lowell), Texas (David & Vicki and us) and Los Angeles (Richard & Rebecca) to join David & Stacey and Art & Lenn in San Jose, California, to honor Steve’s parents, Glenn & Mary Irwin, for their 60th wedding […]

  The interpreting marathon is over and I’m back at my desk in my home office in El Paso. This picture was taken during the closing session of the final day, when Juan led a time of intercession. Prayers were offered in Korean, Tagalog, German, Spanish, Portuguese and English (in a variety of accents) as […]

August 12, 2009 I’m writing you from an interpreter’s booth at NTM’s USA headquarters. I arrived on Sunday and will be here till the 19th, a week from today. Every morning at 8:10, I put on my microphone headset with the headphones and begin interpreting for Stuart Briscoe till 9:30, trying to follow him as […]