Category Archives: Ministry
A Day in the Life
It is Monday morning, 10 AM. Monday’s are always a bit crazy as it seems like there is always a backlog of things to do that have accumulated during the weekend. For some reason this Monday seems a bit crazier … Continue reading
A New Approach to Alphabet Development
In the olden days of Bible Translation, development of a working orthography (aka alphabet) for an unwritten language was a long and drawn out process. Having elicited several hundred words, the translator/linguist would do a phonological analysis, looking for how … Continue reading
Computer Training for our National Co-Workers
When Kathy and I first came to Papua New Guinea in 1985, we were the proud owners of our first computer. It had a 2 inch by 6 inch LCD screen and 35 kilobytes of RAM. What, we wondered, would … Continue reading
Translation of Acts completed in the Ap Ma Language
It was Friday afternoon and things were winding down for the week when the biggest thing to happen in PBT-PNG this year occured. There was a knock at the front door and in walked a couple from Summer Institute of … Continue reading
World-Wide Bible Translation Statistics
Following are some interesting statistics about the status of Bible Translation around the world. World Population: 6.5 Billion Languages Spoken in the World: 6,909 Languages with Probable Need of Bible Translation: 2,393 (representing 200 million people) Languages with Some or … Continue reading