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Today i meet again a retired prison chaplain from Liverpool and tomorrow travel again to Runcorn to meet Kainos (http://www.wix.com/kainoscommunity/kainoscommunity) .

2 days ago i read the following on line from BBC news :

Under the heading  ’Can writing stop prisoners reoffending?’

‘An organisation that sends writers into prison to work with offenders is among arts groups across [...]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of Africa’s largest countries and we now have 3 good sources of easy and veryeasy languages there :

Lubumbashi in the South East – easyFrench (Luke printed and soon, Mark) and veryeasyFrench; team led by an Africa Inland Church Bishop; then they move onto Lingala.
Near Kinshasa the capital [...]

Zhoukou is a city of 11 million people and 1 million beleivers about 500 miles west of Shanghai; Nanjing (the old capital Nanking) is about half way along the journey. In Nanjing about 300,000 people were brutally murdered in the late 1930s by Japanese soldiers. The people of Nanjing (today about 6 million) still find [...]

One of the delightful developments recently in China is the way organised field-testing has started.

4 men are leading this important work in Zhoukou – working with some of the many elderly people helped by Mr Ma’s church until the college holidays when they will meet learning disabled friends in their home villages.

In the small Pentecostal [...]

Please refer to the previous blog item to understand my use of the word ‘Rainbow’.

RED and ORANGE – We already have 2 examples with Royal easyBibles from the UK, but Mr Ma was VERY IMPRESSED WITH THIS WORK and also with my friend ALAN THOMPSON’S paintings. Unfortunately Alan’s paintings were too large for my suitcase [...]

I’ve used the 7 colours of the Rainbow to show the 7 different reading levels that we currently use for easyBibles :

RED – really needs artists and cartoonists, including computer cartoonists. to produce pictures for people who cannot read at all. This was the purpose of stained glass windows.

The first examples are on this site [...]

As i travel, i try to learn new things from God and from His people.

As you know there are 7 colours in the rainbow – red,orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

I’ve started using these colours to represent 7 different reading levels for easyBibles.

So far we have 4 of these levels in easyEnglish and 4 [...]

Back safely via Moscow last night -off to see Jenny who is looking after our granddaughter Lily in Bristol – cheap fare £7 with Megabus. Might meet Catholic Society of the Divine Word missionary Nico from Indonesia too. Thank you for your prayers. Cambodia and Indonesia are possibilities for my next trip to China and [...]

A very good meeting – at least 6 new team members. Thanks for your prayers.

Today i speak to about 20 young people at David’s church. Then we have a discussion. I met some of them yesterday evening – they have more English than most young people in Zhoukou and some have already asked if they help. We had a hilarious and very useful time.

One of them , like David, [...]