Wycliffe News, car keys and Titanic Art

I don’t normally go to the office on a Friday, but yesterday Wycliffe News had to be finished and ready for the printer on Monday morning. Yes, I’ve lost the Kouya special characters in creating my visual below: it will look good in the printed version – oh by the way, if anyone’s interested, you [...]

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No chimpanzees were involved in the translation of the Kouya New Testament

Eddie Arthur – Wycliffe UK boss, friend, and husband of Sue who has recently shared her Kouya dedication thoughts in French on this blog – posted an amusing but very pertinent short piece this morning. We often get asked why we don’t use Google translate or some other online tool to do Bible translation. Well, [...]

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Sue Arthur – Dédicace du NT Kouya, Dema, 21 mars 2012

Here is another guest blog in my series on the Kouya New Testament dedication on 21 March 2012. This time it’s by another good friend and colleague Sue Arthur – and this time I thought I would post the speech that Sue made on the day – in French! Honorables invités, Arrivés en Côte d’Ivoire [...]

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Kalou Ambroise sings: “Come, Jesus loves you, He wants to save you!”

Here is the video of Kalou Ambroise singing the song that was referred to in today’s earlier blog A Day for Kouyas Tra Didier introduces Kalou Ambroise by singing the song and saying that he doesn’t sing it as well as Kalou does. However Marguerite from Gouabafla walks over to Didier and wipes his head [...]

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A Day for Kouyas…

Continuing the series on the Kouya New Testament dedication on 21 March 2012, here is a guest blog by good friend and colleague Philip Saunders. Agathe moved quietly across the arena to where two of her girls stood, half hid herself behind them, and took a tissue from the box they were holding. As Kalou [...]

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Who’d be a third class passenger on the Titanic?

I never thought I could write a blog combining my trip to the Kouya New Testament dedication with the Belfast celebrations of the Titanic until… A colleague recently used this analogy about passenger classes in a letter. Who’d be a third-class passenger on The Titanic? When the ship sank on 14th April 1912, only 24% [...]

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Sadie Johnston and The Kouya Gospel of Luke

Mrs Sadie Johnston, 242 Saintfield Road, passed away on Wednesday 28 March. A Service of Thanksgiving will be held in Saintfield Road Presbyterian Church, Belfast on Monday 2 April at 1.30 pm followed by interment in Lambeg Parish churchyard. At lunchtime today, I attended the funeral of 85 year old Mrs Sadie (Sarah Elizabeth) Johnston. [...]

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It’s not about us!

Back in January this year, I wrote about having mixed feelings as we planned a trip to Ivory coast… We know why we are going – to celebrate the New Testament (10 years after it arrived in the country) & the Megavoice players (solar powered MP3 players with Luke and Acts loaded). But we have [...]

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Kouya New Testament Dedication 21 March 2012

I’m just back from a 7 day trip to Côte d’Ivoire to attend the dedication of the Kouya New Testament. It was a great trip! Pretty exhausted after so much travelling in such a short time. I’m looking through the photos and plan to write a few blogs on the trip – thought I’d post [...]

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On the eve of a return journey to Côte d’Ivoire…

I should be packing the suitcase… I should be double checking that we have all the relevant documents – easyJet boarding passes, Paris hotel confirmation, Air France electronic tickets, passports… But my mind is running back through the years and over memories and people and incidents from the Kouya area of Côte d’Ivoire. Stories that [...]

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