This isn’t a political blog post, although, you don’t have to think too hard to come up with some items for prayer that centre around national or international politics. Some days you have to wonder why we ‘humanity’ seem to insist on believing that we have all the answers ourselves. Instead, this is about one of the busiest weeks in the life of Wycliffe Bible Translators in the UK.

This is the first week of the From Eden to Eternity Tour. It all kicks off tomorrow in Exeter and then runs for another 26 days around England and Wales. Please continue to pray for the cast and crew who will be travelling thousands of miles by road and sleeping in a new bed almost every night of the tour.

Tomorrow is also the start of the International Christian Resources Exhibition. I’m running the Wycliffe stand for the week, with support from different colleagues for each day. It’s also the week where the Biblefresh book will be launched.

Finally, tomorrow colleagues from the European Training Programme are involved in the final stages of approval for a new Masters degree. Months of hard work and planning rest on the outcomes of tomorrow’s meetings.

As you can probably guess, this is a very important, stressful and challenging time for a number of people. Please remember them all in your prayers.

My job for the day had been to take photographs, but it’s quite difficult to concentrate on this as the character of Jesus is being crucified before me.

A few weeks previously I had been to interview Bec Rogers, one of the Saltmine actors and the director of the production. She had commented that for her she learnt a lot through seeing the Bible, rather than reading words on a page. Bec has Dyslexia, which means that taking written information in is difficult for her. Seeing the Bible story enabled her to make a much stronger connection with what was going on.

From Eden to Eternity is on tour in May and June, the dates are below.

From Eden To Eternity – 2010 Tour Venues

• 11th May – Exeter – Belmont Chapel
• 12th May – Bristol – Kensington Baptist
• 13th May – Swansea – City Temple
• 14th May – Cardiff – Highfields Church
• 15th May – Hereford – Hereford Baptist Church
• 18th May – Northampton – Kingdom Life Church
• 19th May – Cambridge – St Barnabas Church
• 20th May – Ipswich – St John the Baptist
• 21st May – Norwich – Norwich Central Baptist Church
• 22nd May – Banbury – St Paul’s Church
• 25th May – Durham – St Nicholas Church
• 27th May – Sunderland – Sunderland Minster

• 8th June – Shrewsbury – Trinity Churches, Holy Trinity Meole Brace
• 9th June – Thame – St Mary’s Church
• 10th June – Fleet – Church on the Heath
• 11th June – Brentwood – Peniel Church
• 12th June – Leeds – City Evangelical Church
• 15th June – Coventry – Elim Pentecostal Church
• 16th June – Woking – Christ Church
• 17th June – Ruislip – Ruislip Baptist Church
• 18th June – Brighton/Hove – Holland Road Baptist Church
• 19th June – Crawley – Crawley Baptist Church
• 21st June – Chelmsford – Central Baptist Church
• 22nd June – Chertsey – St Peters Church
• 23rd June – Portsmouth – Oasis Church, The Venue
• 24th June – Salisbury – St Pauls Church
• 25th June – Swindon – Freshbrook Evangelical Church

Last time we were a bit surprised to find that the media were interested in hearing about the tour, this time we are going to be a little more planned. Today I’ve been thinking about press packs, interviews, pictures, blogs, twitters and facebook. Here’s hoping we can bring the Bible alive to a wider audience this time and more people will hear about the 200 million people who don’t have a translation of the Bible in their own language.

Anyone interested in the tour and why Wycliffe UK are doing it can find some of the answers in the promo video here.

I was blown away by how powerful it is! They capture the glory, struggle and passion of the Bible story through drama, dance, live music, a sword fight and more. Some parts made me want to fall off my chair laughing and other parts made me almost want to cry. [more]

From Eden to Eternity is the story of the Bible in one hour, followed by a presentation about a Bible translation project taking place in Nigeria.

There are dates for the tour all around the country. If you’re interested in going, more information can be found on the Saltmine website.