SECOND TRANSLATION The story chosen for the second translation was, “Jesus Paralytic Heal” (Jesus Heals the Paralytic), from Mark 2:1-12. INFORMAL COMMUNITY TESTING TO DEAF CHILDREN This was a mutually beneficial exercise: The Deaf translators got to practise their introduction and Bible story translation; the children learnt about God; the children got to ask very…
Back row: Durk Meijer as Ethno-communications consultant; Michelle Templeton as Hands With Words Personal Assistant and Bookkeeper; Kirsty Maclons as back-translator; Richard Kunene as full-time Deaf translator; Christopher Bothma at that time as part-time translator/editor (He has since had to step down as his work commitments will not allow him the time to work on…
On returning to South Africa after two weeks of training in Kenya, Lisa, the Executive Director of Hands With Words, was able to oversee the construction of the partitions, the electrical installations, air-conditioner installations, the painting and the purchasing of equipment for the filming and editing rooms. The building and equipping of the rooms took…
