Journeyman

Yesterday morning (Wednesday) I was responsible for leading devotions for the group taking part in the Window on Wycliffe (WOW) course. We were looking at God’s incarnation in Jesus Christ and this being a translation of who God is into the world.
The summary of what I did and say goes as follows…
Activity
Taking Peter as an [...]

I’m making the effort to get this published a little earlier than last night’s message. It appears that Eddie has been waiting for my blog posts before putting himself to bed, so last night was a little late for him. Hopefully, this is a better time.
It’s not a problem. He was leading the morning of [...]

I had a few successes today. The first was that I made it into the morning worship session before it started. That’s not been the case for the last few days.
The second success was that there was a part of the WoW course that I felt I could fully engage with.
The morning sessions still involved [...]

Day 2 of the WoW course and we started getting into the process of transcribing languages using the International Phonetic Alphabet. It’s an amazing system for writing down sounds of words. So we learnt a bit about how the Chatino language was spoken and eventually tried out buying some things in a pretend market situation.
Terms [...]

I was right yesterday when I said that the bunch of people taking the WoW course were nice, they are. What I wasn’t completely prepared for were the sheer number of analytical type people that are interested in this kind of work.
I’m not analytical, at least, not in this way. Many of these guys like [...]