Kirsten turned 21 on Valentine’s Day! We enjoyed celebrating her special day together.
The three girls got together to make Valentine’s cards. Elizabeth (due in late August) is feeling well. Ariela has enjoyed rock climbing with her American Heritage Girls troop. She also loved seeing the horses at our friends’ house, which we visited after speaking at their church near Grinnell, Iowa. These draft horses will be massive! See the pictures below.
Next week, via Zoom, I (Todd) will teach the Bible translators in Croatia and Serbia a course on lexicography (dictionary-marking).
Our Bible translation work is going very well in Genesis with the Arli language. We’ve checked chapters 1-10, and the translators are doing a very good job. I enjoyed ordering more commentaries to help me in the study of Genesis and other upcoming Old Testament books, which I’ll be checking in future consultations. See more pictures below.
In the coming months, I will mentor several people from Serbia, Slovakia, Australia, and Albania as they learn to become Bible translation consultants. We’ll be meeting together in Albania next month for our European conference for The Word for the World Bible Translators and will discuss their growth plans and needs as they learn to consult.
I’ve also been asked to consultant check the book of Matthew in a new-for-me language. It is also called Arli, but it is spoken in North Macedonia, as opposed to the Arli spoken in Serbia that we are working on in the Old Testament.
There are also opportunities for me to mentor others coming up the line to help them develop as translation consultants. I’d appreciate your prayers. Please pray: for me as I check the (Serbian) Arli translation of Genesis. for me as I prepare to check Matthew in North Macedonian Arli. for wisdom for knowing which other consultants-in-training to help mentor, for details of when and how, and for adequate preparation. for the Lord’s help and enablement in writing a training curriculum for mentoring these translation consultants. for me and the students as I teach lexicography (dictionary-making) via Zoom next week in the mornings (their afternoons).
Thank you, Todd & Pamala | 
