There he was. At the Sacred Land. It took some time, but it happened. After Antonio arrived in Lima he went directly to a travel agency to find out how much it would cost to fly to Israel. Then Antonio contacted his grandmother Filomena by phone. She was ecstatic to hear from him and rapidly […]

On our way from the airport in Tuxla Gutierrez to San Cristobal de las Casas, the driver of our car told us that several pastors who were traveling together to attend a meeting had been stopped and killed on that same route. One of my many trips to train missionaries and natives to translate the […]

Antonio was making an effort, in his mind he called it “sacrifice”, to read and study the text of the book of Isaiah, and he was totally amazed. His Bible was the Reina Valera version 1909 and many of those old Spanish words were hard to understand. Through the documentation at the very small library […]

It was time for meetings in England and, in between sessions, I had a weekend that I decided to spend in Ireland. I planned to go to Trinity College in Dublin and see the Books of Kells. So I made arrangements to spend two nights at a bed and breakfast in Dublin and took a […]

This time I was sent to a meeting in Guatemala held by translation consultants. The meeting was going to take place at a church under construction and the pastor was going to be our host. Representatives of several native speakers were coming to learn more about translating the Bible into their languages. One of the […]

After a computer workshop given for several translators and coordinators in Asuncion, Paraguay, one of them, from England, approached me with a big concern. He was working in the North of Argentina. He had to cross the border between Paraguay and Argentina and take a bus to his home several hundred kilometers away. We had […]

The translation project I went to visit was in Yucatan, Mexico. They were facing an orthography change in the language, and they needed a faster and different software to do consistent changes across each Bible chapter. With me was my friend in charge of computers at the Mexico Bible Society. After arriving at the house […]

This time my mission was to deliver a big computer monitor to a Bible Society where I was also to do some training in text analysis and typesetting. I had packed the monitor very carefully, but it was still very obvious that it was a gigantic monitor. This was many years before flat, light screens […]

Back at the office from Zimbabwe, I was asked to go install a computer and a word processor at the home of a very prominent consultant. He had bought a computer but he needed to install a 5.2” disk drive and more memory. While I put the computer together (a desktop with the 5.2 floppy […]

It was a slow process, but all the handwritten or typewritten translation projects of New Testaments and/or complete Bibles had to be rekeyed into computers. The organization I worked with had heeded the advice of a “computer savvy” pastor in New York and bought Texas Instrument computers for the office. I also was told to […]