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uring  a  simple  Church  gave his life to the Lord and was
                Activation  Training  Meet-    then baptized in the sea. He then
          Ding in Turku, Finland, a 70-        joined  us  for  the  whole  training
          year  old  man  discovered  Jesus    weekend  and  gave  a  couple  of
          over  coffee.  This  is  reported  by   incredible insights on both days.
          church planter Charles Kridiotis.
                                               At the end of the training session
          “It  was  a  remarkable  thing,”  he was crying as I prayed with him
          Kridiotis said. “We were meeting     -  tears  of  joy  at  having  found
          a smaller group in a cafe in the city   Jesus and the peace he had been
          centre,  when  a  70-year  old  man   longing for all his life, and tears of
          came in for his morning coffee. He   regret,  “if  only  I  had  heard  the
          listened as I taught the group and   Gospel earlier and not wasted my
          then  joined  us  at  our  table  and   years”.
          after a while asked questions.”
                                               [Charles  Kridiotis,  Joel  News
          “To make a long story short: he      International 1088, July 2018].









               he gift of an unwanted Bible    he  pulled  the  Bible  from  his     lation  in  the  Yopno  language.    their calling and gifts. “The Bible
               led  Wes  Reed  to  faith  in   backpack and began reading it as      They saw the Yopno New Testa-        is the greatest book there is,” said
          TChrist.  But  the  power  of        he  journeyed.  “The  Holy  Spirit    ment  and  Psalms  dedicated  in     Wes, “and we Christians should
          God's Word in his own life led Wes   worked through God's Word very        August of 2010.                      believe that. It's God's revelation
          to  translate  the  Scriptures  for   powerfully,” said Wes, “and while                                         to us. The greatest message ever
          others.                              in  Lima,  Peru,  I  knelt  down  by   Wes  and  LeeAnn  now  work  as     told - that ever could be told - is
                                               myself and gave my heart to the       selection and assignment specia-     available to us but not to some. If
          When  Wes  was  19,  he  and  his    Lord.”                                lists  for  Wycliffe.  They  assist   we  have  the  resources  and  the
          brother decided to explore South                                           individuals  who  have  applied  to   training, why not go and make it
          America. But before they left the    Wes's love for the Scriptures drew    Wycliffe  -  particularly  for  lan-  available?”
          United  States,  they  visited  their   him  to  Bible  School  in  Seattle.   guage roles - and help them find   [Wes  Reed,  Wycliffe,  Joel  News
          grandfather.  He  talked  with  the   Wes'  language  teacher  was  an assignment overseas that fits            International 1088, July 2018].
          young men about Jesus, pressing      impressed  with  his  language
          tracts and a Bible into their hands.   skills and gave him a book about
                                               Wycliffe  and  Bible  translation.
          Wes  and  his  brother  were  not    Challenged  by  the  book,  Wes
          interested. After all, they had no   wanted  to  learn  more  about  the
          religious  background  and  were     Organization. He attended a one-
          heavily  interested  in  science.  day  Wycliffe  Seminar  on  the
          Still, out of respect for his grand-  needs  in  Bible  translation.  The
          father, Wes tossed the Bible into    event was enough to propel Wes
          his backpack.                        on to SIL training at the University
                                               of  Washington  and  then  into
          A  few  months  later  in  Mexico,  a   becoming a Wycliffe missionary.
          young American shared his faith
          with Wes, and gave him a Scrip-      He and his wife, LeeAnn, went on
          ture portion. For some reason, it    to spend 28 years in Papua New
          piqued Wes' interest - enough that   Guinea,  working  on  Bible  trans-








            n  'n  Franse  dorp  het  'n  leer-  weer op ander papier plak en dan    hy aan die werk gespring. Hy het     hom  die  nuus  bring  van  die
            werker  gewoon.  Sy  van  was      voel  die  blinde  kinders  met  hul   'n els gebruik om die dotjies op    geslaagde musiekuitvoering, het
          IBraille.  Hy  het  'n  baie  mooi   vingertjies watter letters dit is. Dit   papier  te  maak.  Nogal  dieselfde   hy van blydskap gehuil! Sy groot
          seuntjie  gehad.  Sy  naam  was      het egter vreeslik baie tyd gemors    instrument  waarmee  hy  sy  oog     lewenstaak  was  afgehandel.  'n
          Louis.                               en so 'n boek vir blindes kon nooit   beskadig het! Kort daarna het hy     Paar dae later het hy gesterf.
          Eendag moes die outjie 'n skerp      regtig gedruk word nie.               homself,  asook  ander  blindes,     Sy  “dotjieskrif”  is  vandag  die
          els uit sy pappie se werkswinkel     Louis was 'n baie slim seun met 'n    geleer om te lees.                   wêreldbekende Brailleskrif. Selfs
          gaan haal. Ongelukkig val hy en      sterk  ondernemingsgees  en  hy       Jare later het hy ook musieknote     die Afrikaanse Bybel is in Braille-
          die els steek in sy een ogie. Die    het  planne  begin  maak.  Hy  wou    in hierdie soort skrif gemaak. (Hy   skrif  te  kry.  So  kan  blindes  ook
          oog het baie seergekry en infek-     iets  beters  uitvind.  Eendag  lees   was self 'n goeie orrelis en tjellis).   selfs die Bybel lees.
          sie het gevolg. Die ander oog is     iemand  vir  hom  'n  stukkie  uit  'n   Mense  het  egter  gesê  dat  dit
          ook aangetas en kort daarna het      koerant van 'n Franse kaptein in      onsinnig was. Volgens hulle sou      Jongmense,  wanneer  teleurstel-
          hy heeltemal blind geword. Hier-     die weermag wat vir sekere van sy     niemand  ooit  op  daardie  manier   lings op ons pad kom, hoef ons
          die verlies het baie smart, teleur-  manskappe geleer het om bevele        musiek  kon  leer  speel  nie.  Een   nie moedeloos te word nie. Ons
          stelling en droefheid vir die hele   in  die  donker  te  lees.  Dit  het   aand  het  een  van  Louis  se  moet  die  Here  vra  wat  ons  kan
          familie tot gevolg gehad. 'n Blinde   geskied  deur  middel  van  opge-    musiekstudente egter 'n musiek-      doen om hierdie teleurstellings in
          klein seuntjie - kan julle dink hoe   hewe dotjies op papier wat hulle     uitvoering  voor  'n  groot  gehoor   'n seën te verander. Die Here sal
          baie sy ouers gehuil het? Wat sou    met hul vingers kon voel.             gelewer.  Die  gehoor  het  oorver-  julle help soos Hy vir Louis gehelp
          die toekoms vir hom inhou?           Louis het hardop uitgeroep: “Dit      dowend hul hande van opgewon-        het.
          Hulle  besluit  toe  om  hom  na  'n   kan gedoen word! Dit kan gedoen     denheid geklap. Die musiek was
          skool  vir  blindes  te  stuur.  Daar   word! Neem my asseblief dadelik    pragtig! Ongelukkig kon Louis nie    [Kom ons vertel Stories, Mev. J C
          gekom, vind klein Louis dat hulle    na  daardie  kaptein  toe!”  Na  'n   self teenwoordig wees nie, want      de  Ferrières  (Tant  Sannie),
          die letters uit dik papier sny, dit   gesprek  met  hierdie  kaptein  het   hy was baie siek. Toe 'n vriend vir   Evangelie Uitgewers, 1968].
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