Archive for October, 2009

This post has nothing to do with my mission work.  Just to let you know.
I’ve had a problem in trying to change notifications in the Skype Preferences pane (I’m using OS X, by the way).  But, every time I clicked on the red flag (Notifications), Skype would freeze for up to a minute, then crash.  [...]

Fading

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

I climbed out of bed at 5:52am this morning.  We have had quite a day at the dedication ceremony up in the Vwanji language area mountains.  We have lots of video and photos but I’m way tired so I’ll have to leave you with this one shot from today…

It is from just after they brought [...]

Warp Speed

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

I kid you not, Scottie kicked in the warp speed around the time I started recording Mark in the Vwanji language.  The ensuing months have blown by like streaks of light from passing stars.  Today, he turned the switch back off.  The Gospel of Mark in the Vwanji language now has 198 complete and ready-to-sell [...]

The prodigal cassette duplicator

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Just before quittin’ time yesterday, a good Tanzanian friend of mine called me.  He said, “Jonathan, God has been good to us!”  I asked him why he said that.  He proceeded to tell me that someone had brought to him a cassette tape duplicator trying to sell it.  He noticed it matched the description of [...]

Take a look see

Monday, October 5th, 2009

If you’ve been following my recent tweets, you’d know that I finished my first editing phase on Mark in the Vwanji language.  What does that mean exactly?  Glad you asked.  Glad to answer.
As I’ve recorded more and more books here in the local languages, I’ve searched for my personal, best-fit method to go from beginning [...]