Anuki dedication of Mark and Genesis 1-11

You may remember that in February I told you that I was working with the Anuki team at the VITAL course, helping them as they translated some of Acts. In previous courses, they had worked on Mark and portions of Genesis. They completed the whole checking process for Mark and Genesis 1-11, so it could then be published and distributed. They had a big day of celebration to dedicate and sell the books. Click on the title or copy and paste the link below into your web browser to read a news report about the special day. (The 'insert link' feature isn't working for me, so I have to do it this way).

http://theanukicountrypress.blogspot.com/2010/08/translating-bible-into-anuki-is-vital_02.html

Here’s a photo of me working with the Anuki team in February:

Off travelling again

Tomorrow I leave Ukarumpa again and won't be back for 4 months. I am travelling to Goroka by road with a group of SIL people tomorrow to go to the Linguistic Society of PNG conference. There will be various people there presenting information on linguistic research they have done.

On Friday I will fly from Goroka to Rabaul/Kokopo, stay there for 3 nights and then fly to Buka. I will be at Buka for over a month, and I will be visiting a couple of language groups to consider whether I would like to work there, plus I will be managing the kitchen during a two week workshop.

I travel to Melbourne next for a holiday, arriving on 4th September. I am enjoy my birthday there and being able to watch the AFL Grand Final live.

I leave Melbourne on 27th September and I go to Alotau to be a mentor at a translation workshop called VITAL, then I fly back to Ukarumpa on 9th November (I think that's the date).

For the next week or so, I won't have Internet or email access, but when I get settled at Buka I should have it, and I will have mobile phone reception almost everywhere I will be on these travels.

I am going to prepare some blog posts about my Sos Kundi trip this evening if I have time and I can set them up to post automatically every few days while I am not connected, so you can keep checking my blog as per usual. (I am hoping that what I am setting up will work and the posts turn up automatically as scheduled).