Roger Wiley and wife have been members in Eurasia for thirty years. They joined the F Project in 1995 first working on an OT Prophet Series. While continuing on that, they began work on the NT in 2000. It was published in 2020. The larger F Cluster Project began in 2016 with the addition of daughter projects T and Z.
Reaching Some of those Difficult-Access and "Unreachable" Areas
Abstract
1. Problems and Objectives
How might one run a BT project in so-called "unreachable" areas of difficult access? The presence of foreigners and even some nationals in these areas automatically cause hurdles and suspicion.
2. Methods
The use of primary and secondary hubs and spokes in and from more accessible parts of the country connected by natural transportation and communication links to the difficult-access areas has proven successful in the Eurasia F Cluster Project. Careful preliminary research and wise planning is required by people who have successful field experience from similar areas. Prayer permeates it all.
3. Results
The F Cluster Project, while continuing translation in Project F, is now producing translation in daughter Projects T and Z that were formerly "unreachable." Both have FLEx dictionaries with thousands of entries. Both have published the Gospel of Mark and the book of Revelation. Other epistles are now being translated. Much of this has happened during the Covid-19 restrictions. These daughter projects are managed by expat liaisons in conjunction with national staff where the expats have had no or little direct contact with the daughter projects.
4. Conclusion
Good translation is possible with the right source text and good oversight. However, with less interaction possible among the entire translation team in these daughter projects, one has to stay on top of everything. Things may progress more slowly than in a project with more direct and open communication between all members of the translation team.
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