How does a translation happen?

Draft and re-draft until it sounds natural.

Check it against the Indonesian Bible to make sure that nothing has been left out or added in.

Run it past some fresh, unbiased ears to make sure that it's clear. Then do it again with input from an experienced translation consultant who checks for accuracy, naturalness and clarity.

Print, record, distribute and get community feedback.

What word should we use for God?

Seventy Nimboran chiefs and elders gathered to hear our draft and give input on some key terms like God, angel and Christ in their language.






Fun in the river

Flower chains

Rain



Friends for dinner

Tinny


Tinny as dog..

Tinny as dish (she wasn't a very good guard dog).

The ice cream man

Cool hair

Sundays

Enjoying the world's biggest krupuk after church one Sunday morning.



Giant moth

Autumn (almost 3)

 

The reluctant superhero. 



A rare, fun day at the office with Dad.











Next door.

Shredded coconut to go

Back to Malang


These photos go way back to October last year when Equeen (left), Maryam and I went to a 3-week narrative discourse workshop in Malang, where Phil and I lived for over a year doing language school. We learnt a method for analysing stories in Papuan Malay and then experimented with applying the discourse features that we discovered in these stories to our draft translations of stories from Luke and Acts. The challenge now is to get more stories that are useful for analysis and to make the time to do the analysis, as we only looked at two stories at the workshop. It was a long time to be away from the family, but well worth it. A bonus for me was being in Malang again and being able to catch up with some old friends. And get a decent haircut.



Kemtuik NT goes mobile

This picture goes way back to July last year when Philip helped the Kemtuik people get their New Testament loaded onto mobile phones.  It can passed on phone to phone via bluetooth. It is difficult to know just how much it is being used but one pastor's daughter said Dad's always got his mobile in the pulpit and he preaches from it! This picture shows John 3.16 in Kemtuik. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.  



Here, some ladies from Mlap, which is related to Kemtuik, adapt the Kemtuik Apostle's Creed into their language.

Autumn's little friend



On Tuesday mornings I look after the cute little button on the right so her mum can do some work, and on Monday mornings it's the other way around. She and Autumn get on very well.



Time-out for Dolly.

Daddy's home

This is what happens when Phil gets home from work after an overnight stay in the village.