Journeyman

My newsletter is now available for download in pdf format from this page. Thanks to all of you who have been praying for Tany and myself, supporting us financially or just giving us encouragement. It’s all warmly received.
Thank you.

Each summer Wycliffe Bible Translators in the UK send teams of people to visit translation projects in different parts of the world. We call these Engage teams and this year there are planned 4 week trips to Cambodia, Indonesia and Cameroon.
The real purpose of Engage is to provide the opportunity for Christians in the UK [...]

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.

In the Bible the book of Psalms is a collection of poetry. Originally written in Hebrew, our translation into English misses out some of the beauty and technical skill of the original compositions.
Philip Hewer recently wrote about the challenges of translating Psalm 119, the longest chapter in the Bible, and in its original form, a [...]

While swaning around in Africa, I left colleagues (Ruth and Paul) to get on with the proper work of getting the new website for Wycliffe Bible Translators in the UK ready to go live.
They did a fantastic job and the site’s now live and working well, you can find it at wycliffe.org.uk.
It’s all coming together [...]

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 [...]

I’m in no doubt that my impending Africa trip is going to be a fantastic experience, but I’m a little disappointed to be going away right now.
For the last few months we’ve been working really hard at updating the look and content of the Wycliffe Bible Translators material you’re most likely to come into contact [...]

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 [...]

I’m growing to realise that there are some tougher aspects to this job.
What began as a simple change of name from Wycliffe UK to Wycliffe Bible Translators has grown to a major review of much of what we do for promotion. Over the past week we’ve been comparing bids from five design companies to work [...]

Just having managed to get through two portions of Lasange for lunch, back in the office we’ve started receiving Christmas gifts. Now I remember the days of being sent a box of Cadbury’s Roses by companies I’ve given business to, but Halcyon have outdone all others by sending Christmas Cake! I’ve never had Christmas cake [...]