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When i travel the blog aspect of this site takes over. Please pray for Martin B in the Congo – setting up small businesses and testing easyFrench, Swahili and Kirundi.  Please pray for my friend Paul Marsh – interview today with CMS.

Tokyo 2010 was thrilling – a fuller report from home in June – when results emerge. Great church yesterday in KL – new team for easyMalay – checkers for veryeasyChinese.

Off to Tokyo2010 today rejoicing that Edition 2 booklets have started with easyMarwari and veryeasyArabic and Urdu!

Thank you for your prayers.

It’s great that new independent checking has started at the veryeasy level in Urdu, Arabic, Marathi, Malay, French and Tagalog.

HHH hope soon to produce John’s Gospel at the ‘easy’ level in Malay and Tamil in time for me to print and take to Tokyo2010 on May9th.

With the addition of  Afrikaans, Malay, Marathi, Danish, Korean and Arabic – all at the veryeasy level – we now rejoice in 93 projects online.

These have also been checked by experts by email and will soon be printed and posted. Currently they remain first draft – until we get independent advice – hopefully from some of  the 1000 delegates at Tokyo 2010.

We rejoice in networking with HHH -Helping Hands for the Handicapped – an Indian Mission.

VeryeasyTamil, veryeasyTelugu and veryeasyHindi  have arrived from India – praise God!

Also veryeasyJapanese from staff caring for disabled children in India and Pakistan.

A friend has given me a copy of  the ‘Poverty and Justice Bible’  - the CEV with important references to the poor highlighted, including Mt 25 v 40 :

‘The king will answer, “Whenever you did it for any of my people, no matter how unimportant they seemed, you did it for me.”

Our brothers and sisters, who are severely learning disabled may seem unimportant. Jesus was mocked before Calvary.

For those who cannot read at all, we imagine classes with posters. For those a with some reading ability – perhaps a few captions will be appropriate. I value comments. And we need more artists and cartoonists. We’ve made a start with a group led by our friend Marge at Brixington Community Church, Devon. Our 83rd project for easyBibles will be placed under ‘ Made to Measure’ and is a wonderful example of translating the ‘Lost Sheep‘ without the need for words. The artist is John from East Anglia, UK.

We value contributions from volunteers in all nations.

Printing Edition 1 (which will be replaced by Edition 2 after feedback, testimony and field-testing) has started at the ‘veryeasy’ level in :

Tanzanian Swahili, Kenyan Swahili, Amharic, Bemba, Cebuano/Bisaya, Chichewa, English, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Jita, Kirundi, Luo, Oromo, Punjabi, Seraiki, Shona, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu and Yao

And at the ‘easy’ level in :

Amharic, Chichewa, French, Indonesian, Kelabit, Kirundi, Lingala, Luganda, Luhya, Luo, Malay, Masaai, Oromo, Punjabi, Seraiki, Kenyan Swahili and Urdu.

A total of 39 projects! Praise God!

This will soon be over 40 projects printed and posted to people who supply me with their postal addresses. So far i have 32 postal addresses. People who then help me to improve the booklets will the receive many more copies of Edition 2 with card covers – yellow for ‘veryeasy’ and blue for ‘easy’. Thanks again to Cefni Computers of North Wales and several teams doing folding and stapling.

1. So far we have 17 African full postal addresses to receive gospel booklets – we need many more – also from Asia and South America. When we get feedback we shall print and post larger numbers of Edition 2 –  with card covers.
2. Testimonies, comments and suggestions about their usefulness will be much appreciated. We seek to improve all aspects of this ministry.

Last night Cefni Computers in Angelsey, Wales, UK added 50 veryeasyAmharic, 50 veryeasyBemba and 30 easyOromo to an already very impressive list of A5 gospel booklets in veryeasySwahili, veryeasyChichewa, veryeasyOromo, veryeasyJita, veryeasyKirundi and veryeasyShona. Ian must have averaged over 60 copies per language with over 100 for veryeasySwahili.

We’ve given priority to the ‘veryeasy’ level because of Christ’s own priorities mentioned in Matthew 25 :40 !! In fact we need to research reading materials for people of even lower reading abilities. Audio and video ministries are wonderful – but let’s try and place something in the hands of every person to help with their quiet time.