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How many living languages are there today? -- August 2023
Our family is all back in the Grand Rapids area now, as Roger has completed his two-year term serving at the Black Forest Academy in Germany.
Germany
Letters and posts written from or about Germany.
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Starting Strong -- Higby Herald Jan 2023
On Monday, January 2, when I arrived in Atlanta and was told that my flight to Paris was canceled, I was desperate to find another way to Paris.
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Marking Pentecost and Making News
We've just updated the stats to show that the Paratext software has been used in 3,051 languages now for Bible translation work—and the number keeps growing!
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How do you use a clay pot instead of a sword?
When Gideon was rallying his army to fight against the armies of Midian, Amalek, and the people of the east, he felt woefully inadequate with his 32,000 troops.
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Semi-nomadic training for Bible translation
The semi-nomadic pattern begins: a nine-and-a-half-week trip through the Netherlands, Belgium and West Africa, training wherever translators need it and working from friends’ spare rooms in between.
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A road trip into the future - Higby Herald October
We were newlyweds then, visiting people and churches to share our vision for Bible Translation and to find the financial backing to send us out.
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Higby Herald June 2015
Last month we were blessed to spend a few vacation days to celebrate our May 26th wedding anniversary, and as part of the fun I (Doug) managed to make a cairn with 25 stones.
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Higby Herald December 2014
“Doesn’t the Bible already exist in French?” A fair question, because that is how the name “Wycliffe Bible Translators” identifies us.
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Higby Herald September 2014
The work on this took place from August 7 – 12 at the Digital Bible Library (DBL) workshop in Kenya.
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Higby Herald May 2014
After attending the Presenting God’s Word Conference, Priscilla and I are fired up about using non-print media to share the Good News.
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Higby Herald March 2014
What happens when you want to put the Scriptures on the Internet or distribute them on memory chips that can be read by cell phones?
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Zapping asteroids with my eyes
CeBIT exhibition in Hannover Germany, March 14 2014 I received a free ticket to attend the CeBIT exhibition in Hannover which is in northern Germany, about a six hour Drive from where I live.