The five-day course includes introductory classes on phonetics, phonology, grammar, language and cultural learning, and translation and semantics. The informal, personal atmosphere helps to make this intensely academic course fun and highly interactive.
Field reports, video and personal testimonies offer a chance for students to experience translation as it happens in the field. In addition, Bible study, prayer times and community living allow students a great opportunity to interact with each other, and to work one-on-one with the translators teaching the course.
Purpose:
To provide participants with an introduction to the academic and ministry aspects of translation and linguistics, and to encourage them with a greater sense that God has called us all to engage in the Bible translation movement.
Details:
Housing and meals are provided (ethnic dinners are prepared at most venues.)
This is me, Jennifer, again. Speaking of the ethnic dinners...I have a story to tell you. Each night we have the privilege to go into a "retired" missionaries' home. They cook an ethnic dinner for us and then tell us stories from their times in whichever country in which they served. For those of you who remember the good 'ol days of CSBC, it's like missionary hour each evening. It is wonderful!!! Anyways, the first two nights the food was delicious! I thought, man if they eat like this in the jungle, it's not too bad! We had rice and vegetables one night and the other we had rice and chicken and vegetables in some strange but tasty sauce. So I was excited about tonight's meal. The missionaries served in the Philippines. They gave us a little lesson on how to hold our utensils, scoop up our food, etc. We were served our food and it looked kind of similar to the previous nights'. Rice, some type of meat, noodles, and vegetables. Looked good! I scooped up a large portion onto my spoon, as she had told us to do, and was unpleasantly surprised by the taste! What kind of meat was that? It looked kind of like beef...maybe?
Joel and I didn't know. The lady called it something, but it was in another language. Who knows! I was trying my best to get it all down. Really, I was! But something about that taste just was not right! It kind of made me feel sick. So about half way through my portion, I quietly asked Joel if he wanted the rest of my "meat". He nodded yes, so I put it onto his plate. He will eat most anything, so I didn't think much of it. I just thought I was giving him a little extra food. Well, ok, truth be told, I didn't see how it would be possible for him to be enjoying that stuff, but he nodded yes, so I quickly took him up on it! We finished up the meal and headed back to our meeting room to hear our missionary story for the night. It wasn't until then that someone broke it to us that we had just been served
CHICKEN LIVERS!!!
Ahh! I'm just thankful I didn't know until afterwards. Otherwise, there's no way I would have gotten down as much as I did! At least now I can say that I've eaten chicken livers! That's a new one.
Anyways, just thought I'd share that delightful story with you. We are having a great time here and learning so much! I've always admired and respected missionaries, and each day that I've been here my respect has grown tremendously! Each missionary we have met has been so obedient, so trusting, and so faithful to God. Their stories are mind-blowing! I feel so privileged to have met them all and gotten to know them a little and hear their stories. I don't know what God has planned for Joel and me, but I do know that he can do amazing things if we trust and obey!
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