Journeyman

Eddie recorded some video of me on our trip to Burkina Faso. Opinions, scenery, pot holes and a loud shirt! What else would you expect from a trip to Africa.

I’m not going to write much now. We got back to the UK at 8am after flying overnight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. I don’t sleep well on planes so think I probably only got about 20 minutes kip during the trip – I’m now really struggling to concentrate and can’t guarantee that anything I would [...]

This trip is almost over. Tomorrow will involve one more hot day sat in a meeting room before getting on an air-conditioned plane in the evening to start the flight home. I’ve learnt a lot here, but two things are going to stick in my head above all else.
1 – Asking the wrong questions.
On Sunday [...]

Even I can understand the point of church starting at 8am when it gets as warm as it does here – 400 people crammed together at 11am just wouldn’t work.
This morning we visited the Assemblies of God church in Ouagadougou with a colleague from the centre here. It was everything you would expect from a [...]

I’m in Burkina Faso, in West Africa, visiting some Bible translation projects with Eddie Arthur, the boss of Wycliffe Bible Translators in the UK. We’ve just come back, today, from a trip to the south west of the country visiting five translation projects that are in progress. If you’d like to know a bit more [...]

It’s a busy time in the office so in an attempt to help my colleagues out with all the work I’ve decided to skip the country!
Tomorrow lunchtime Eddie and I are flying off to Burkina Faso in West Africa for 10 days. We’re doing some research, trying to identify Bible translation projects which could be [...]