Dear praying friends,
Please pray for Todd’s trip to Croatia, which Lord willing, will go like this:
Nov. 6: fly from Kansas City
Nov. 7: arrive in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia; rent a car; get to bed and breakfast and catch up on some sleep, while 3 translators drive the 6+ hours from Leskovac, Serbia, up to Croatia.
Nov. 8: drive 2 ½ hours to the Bible college in Osijek, Croatia; meet up with teammate, Joy, who will drive down the computer tablets & reference books we will use for checking; spend the day translating with Goran and Emrush
- fix or replace computer tablet and/or translation software program which is having problems
- pay their salaries
- discuss and check how we have translated several key words in the Gurbet New Testament draft
- overnight in dorms
Nov. 9: spend the day translating with Kada and Sasha- fix or replace her computer tablet
- pay their salaries
- discuss and check how we have translated several key words in the Arli draft translation of the four Gospels and John’s epistles
- discuss and practice how to back translate each other’s translation work from Arli into Serbian so I can check the work in more detail against the Greek
- original overnight in the dorms
Nov. 10: while 3 translators from Serbia drive home- discuss with Sasha his draft translation of Luke into Arli
- traverse the country 2 ½ hours back to Zagreb
- translate with Natasha and Renata
- pay their salaries
- discuss and check several key words they have used in the Bayash translation of the four Gospels and a few of Paul’s epistles
- overnight at nearby apartment
Nov. 11: spend the day translating with Natasha, Renata and Nedeljko
- visit the Bayash church 1 ½ hours away
- share a meal and look over the handwritten back translation of Luke from Bayash into Croatian that he is making for me.
Nov. 12: drive back across Croatia 3 hours to Vukovar to meet with Djeno and Biljana
- overnight two nights with them
Nov. 13 & 14: spend two days translating with Djeno and Biljana
- fix or replace Biljana’s computer tablet
- pay their salaries
- discuss and check several key words in their translation of the Gospels and some of Paul’s epistles into Chergash
Nov. 15: early morning flight to Kansas City
Please pray that all that is done on this trip will glorify our Lord. Thank you for being part of the translation team!
Todd (& Pamala)
