Steve and Eida Irwin Equipping Latin American cross-cultural church planters 
Steve returned in mid-May from the Team Translation Workshop in Paraguay.
In case your geography is a little rusty, Paraguay is smack in the middle of South America, on the western border of the southern tip of Brazil. It took four flights and about 22 hours of travel to get there. Click here for a map.
The purpose of the workshop was to equip NTM teams which are translating God’s Word into tribal languages by giving them additional training in translation principles and methods.
I was there to learn the material so that we can translate it into Spanish and help present the same workshop in Spanish as well as English in Mexico this July.
It was great! I learned a LOT about Bible translation. My partner Duff Gustafson has already made good headway translating some of the material. As I work on my part of the “stack of stuff,” I’ll be contributing my perspective to his work, and we’re having it all checked by Israel, our Colombian translator, in order to produce a high quality Spanish version.
Several Brazilian missionaries attended the workshop as well, and they asked that we send them whatever we translate into Spanish, since Spanish it will speed their work in translating it to Portuguese.
To see a few pictures of Steve’s trip, click here.
Thank you for upholding us in prayer – for health and finances and for efficiency and productivity as we work.
