At the Stroke of Midnight...

...WE FINISHED!!
Praise and thanks to the Lord for how he answered all who prayed. He gave strength and endurance, and the final days of the Palawano New Testament recording project went smoothly, beyond our wildest imagination!

Luke still has some technical editing to do, and he needs to save each chapter as a separate file so they can be loaded on the players.

But we are done with recording, listening and re-recording!


PICKING UP SPEED
We put in some long days of proof listening Monday through Wednesday and made great progress. Thursday morning, we re-recording about 20 mistakes found in Matthew through Acts 10.

Then...

THE CLOUDS PARTED
From Acts 10 through Revelation we found NO MORE CORRECTIONS that needed to be recorded. Yes, that's 3,900 verses without a single mistake to redo. This is huge. It's almost unbelievable, Luke says. It was, in fact, a huge answer to prayer.

• Susing our reader was on fire and those final books went faster (nearly 4 verses per minute).
• In the first level of checking we must have caught all of the few errors.

Bill and Luke decided to do an all-nighter, if necessary, on Thursday to get the final proof listening through Revelation done. Then, we could record all the corrections on Friday morning, leaving some time to insert those into the audio files, and to check and recheck them.

So they finished Revelation 22:21 at the stroke of midnight, but there were no corrections to deal with on Friday.

So all that was left was a few high-fives, and some grateful prayers of thanksgiving...

..oh yeah, and lots of packing up to fly to Manila on Saturday and on to the USA on Sunday.


SO JUST IN TIME
Thanks to all who prayed, and to the Lord for his help.

We head back to San Diego. Luke and Kristen go there, also, then return to Mozambique in a couple of weeks. We're so thankful for their help in this project, and it's been fun getting to know them over the past six weeks.

Stay tuned and we'll let you know when the New Testament printing is done and the audio players are ready to distribute.


PLEASE PRAY WITH US:

• and thank the Lord for his grace and help
• safe travel for Susing and his family
• safe travel for us and for Luke and Kristen
• for fast and QUALITY printing of the Palawano New Testament

Thank you for your part in this ministry!

Reaching Palawanos together with you,

-Bill and Donna


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Prayer Needed for Final Recording

HOME STRETCH...ed
We're about to begin the final week of recording the audio version of the Palawano New Testament and we really need your prayers.

Yes, it's the Home Stretch, and we are being stretched, as well!

The whole NT has been recorded from Matthew to Revelation and the initial checking and corrections (rerecording short passages) has been completed. Praise the Lord for this! We're thankful for this milestone, good progress, and the great team God has sent to help with this project.

RUNNING OUT OF TIME?
Now we are doing the final edit which involves listening to the entire NT once again, checking for any errors that may have slipped through, deleting unnatural pauses, etc.

The challenge we face is that it takes about 2 hours to do the final edit on each hour of recorded material, and there don't seem to be enough hours in the week to get it done.

The Palawano New Testament is significantly longer than the normal 18-hour New Testaments Luke and Kristen have been recording in Africa. In hindsight, we see that we should have budgeted a few extra weeks to get the Palawano project done, but we didn't realize this until it was too late.

So we have about 50 hours of listening and checking to get done... all in the next 5 days, plus rerecording any errors we might find.

WHY IS OUR TRANSLATION LONG?
It's mostly a language issue. For example, to track dialogue, Palawano adds "he said" to each sentence of recorded speech (that's about 4,000 times in the New Testament!)

Also, narrative discourse adds what is called head-tail links like this:

So Jesus went to Galilee.

When he got to Galilee, he entered the synagogue.

When he had entered there, he began to teach....

Those connections seem repetitious and unnecessary to us, but they are how Palawano tracks people and events throughout a story. Without them, the reader or listener would be lost. And you can imagine how those extra sentences would add up, time-wise, as Susing reads all the gospels and Acts!

SO PLEASE KEEP PRAYING
So as we enter this final week, we ask you to pray with us that the project can be completed--done, and done well!

Please pray:

• for stamina as we listen through long hours of checking
• for any remaining mistakes to be found
• that we can finish within the time remaining before we all fly back to the USA on March 24.

Thank you for your part in this ministry!

Reaching Palawanos together with you,

-Bill and Donna


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HOME STRETCH...ed
We're about to begin the final week of recording the audio version of the Palawano New Testament and we really need your prayers.

Yes, it's the Home Stretch, and we are being stretched, as well!

The whole NT has been recorded from Matthew to Revelation and the initial checking and corrections (rerecording short passages) has been completed. Praise the Lord for this! We're thankful for this milestone, good progress, and the great team God has sent to help with this project.

RUNNING OUT OF TIME?
Now we are doing the final edit which involves listening to the entire NT once again, checking for any errors that may have slipped through, deleting unnatural pauses, etc.

The challenge we face is that it takes about 2 hours to do the final edit on each hour of recorded material, and there don't seem to be enough hours in the week to get it done.

The Palawano New Testament is significantly longer than the normal 18-hour New Testaments Luke and Kristen have been recording in Africa. In hindsight, we see that we should have budgeted a few extra weeks to get the Palawano project done, but we didn't realize this until it was too late.

So we have about 50 hours of listening and checking to get done... all in the next 5 days, plus rerecording any errors we might find.

WHY IS OUR TRANSLATION LONG?
It's mostly a language issue. For example, to track dialogue, Palawano adds "he said" to each sentence of recorded speech (that's about 4,000 times in the New Testament!)

Also, narrative discourse adds what is called head-tail links like this:

So Jesus went to Galilee.

When he got to Galilee, he entered the synagogue.

When he had entered there, he began to teach....

Those connections seem repetitious and unnecessary to us, but they are how Palawano tracks people and events throughout a story. Without them, the reader or listener would be lost. And you can imagine how those extra sentences would add up, time-wise, as Susing reads all the gospels and Acts!

SO PLEASE KEEP PRAYING
So as we enter this final week, we ask you to pray with us that the project can be completed--done, and done well!

Please pray:

• for stamina as we listen through long hours of checking
• for any remaining mistakes to be found
• that we can finish within the time remaining before we all fly back to the USA on March 24.

Thank you for your part in this ministry!

Reaching Palawanos together with you,

-Bill and Donna


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