Journey back to Kovol

We’ve been out in Goroka for several weeks, and it’s also been several weeks since we posted a blog. We decided to film the journey in as a way to get started blogging again and to give an impression of what it’s like arriving back in the bush.

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Lois S. · 11/10/2023 at 12:58 am

Thanks for sharing! the visuals of going back into the tribe are insightful! We will pray for team unity and shared joy.

Mandy Caley · 12/10/2023 at 6:20 am

Good to see 🙂

walkerwife · 11/10/2023 at 1:29 am

Thanks for the update, I was a little unsure as to where you were! Praying that your time out would have been profitable and that, going forward, you will be able to work in unity and harmony. God bless.

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Illustrating short stories

For one of our post-literacy readers, I thought it would be fun to write a short story about a time Gerdine and I went to a Kovol garden with our friend. Readers need illustrations to go with them, so I've been working on illustrating my own story :)

September video update

Just before we head out of Kovol for our annual conference we took the time to shoot a quick update video. If you've been reading the blog it's nothing new, but it's always nice to see our faces right? We also don't assume and expect that everyone keeps up :)

Implicit and explicit information in translation

As I step into translating into the Kovol language I certainly feel overwhelmed! Translation isn't a task where there is a simple right answer and wrong answer, it's a complex spectrum of choices. It's possible to be too free and end up paraphrasing on the one hand and being too wooden on the other. It's possible to have correct sentences that all work, but don't fit together as a paragraph. There are choices to be made on how much "glue" to add to help the sentences hang together. There are choices to be made in how to translate new vocabulary and concepts. There's the fact that one helper prefers to use this word and say it this way, and another prefers to say it that way. Are the different opinions simple stylistic variations? Does one flow better? Which term really fits the original meaning best?