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June Trip Preparations

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June 6th is just around the corner and preparations are going well. Benjamin and I will be meeting with Kjell Christophersen every week now to get his input on the two booklets that we want to provide the Bakwé microentrepreneurs –one on assessing the feasibility of a business; the second, on basic accounting principles. I just got Alexis, my Bakwé colleague and co-translator, up on Google Calendar so he can see our proposed schedule for the three weeks we are together. Amazing this technology! I’m sure there are more web tools we could use to more effectively work at a distance from each other. If you know of any, let me know.

Yesterday I sent off our back-translation of Galatians and James to our translation consultant who will be checking both epistles in June. A back-translation is a rather literal translation from Bakwé into French. It allows the consultant to see behind our translation as he keeps his eye on the Greek text during the verse-by-verse checking process. This literal back-translation allows the consultant to also see some of the idioms and grammatical structure of Bakwé.

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Boneem International donates sound equipment

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Rick Trader, a good friend of mine from college days, started a non-profit organization that focuses on ministering to families in Russia. Visit their web site www.boneem.org to find out more. Boneem puts aside some ‘tithe’ money for the Bakwé ministry from the monies donated to Boneem. Recently Boneem bought almost 1K worth of audio equipment and donated it to our Bakwé colleagues. This audio equipment will be used in Africa to make audio CD’s of all our published literature in the Bakwé language–from health booklets to Scripture.Although this generation of Bakwé are learning to read, it will be another generation or more until the society as a whole becomes literate. Today most families have at least one ‘boom box’ with a CD player, so audio CD’s will reach a larger number of people in this generation than the written page will. Thank you Boneem!

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