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** Home again, Home again ———————————————————— After two months on the road, it’s nice to be back home. We enjoyed getting to see many of you. Thank you for the many encouragements and blessings. We now have two “homes” as our four-month home buying process wrapped up this week. We’re home-owners for the first time!… Continue reading At Home and Away

** Handing the work off? ———————————————————— Immediately after my Caucasus trip, the Ron in Nigeria got together to check the remaining 25 chapters of Genesis. My mentor Consultant and fellow Consultant in Training (CiT) joined them via Zoom and a Nigerian CiT was there with them, but I was allowed to step aside as I… Continue reading Pray for Nigeria

Where we’ve been and where we’re going. Returning to the Familiar PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THIS SECTION ONLINE WITHOUT PERMISSION It felt like going home again. For two weeks in November I (Benjamin) was back in the Caucasus where we lived for four years. Since we didn’t have a car for most of that time,… Continue reading Caucasus, East Coast Trip, 2023

Equipping the church to lead In the middle of the workshop last month, Rev. Ben introduced me to an interesting man. This man had come to the city looking for Rev. Ben because he’d heard about how the Alis i Ron are owning their own Bible translation project as a community–and he wanted the same… Continue reading Local ownership

A man raised his hand, “We really appreciate these demonstrations in English, but what about doing it in our language?”   I replied, “That’s a great idea. You and who?” *Everyone laughs* A few moments later he and another man were in front of the room doing a demonstration of one of the translation testing… Continue reading A Trainer’s Happy Place