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Lessons  Learned  from  a  Turkey  (NOT!)   When I was attending Grade One in a

rural Marion, Indiana school, I faithfully colored my Thanksgiving Turkey (as replicated at right) - but mine was the only "effort" of which the teacher did

not approve! Thus, I learned at an early age that

though "coloring between the lines" was important, it was even more important that my "turkey" not be flaunting his

colorful tail-feathers like a headdress!

turkey template my "unacceptable" turkey That Grade One lesson has had incalculable value! Ceteris paribus (other things being equal): "Don't

let the world around you squeeze you into its mould," but be renewed and energized from within (JB Phillips, Romans 12:1 paraphrase. )

Buhutu Translator's Group Banner( above)

Mid-September thru mid-November • Sept 15-19 Christian Religious Education

Workshop (Siasiada village)– learning to develop Sunday School lessons and lessons for Religious Studies in the Schools. (Approx 25 participants)

• Sept 22-26 Buhutu Song Writing (Ipouli village) 51 songs transcribed from MP3 audio files 12 New songs composed (add to 15 old set, 25 from 2012, 37 yet to transcribe from MP3 files = 140 songs +/- a few duplicates, PTL! Enough for a preliminary edition of a Buhutu songbook!

Sept 29 thru Oct-31 VITAL Module 29 (Alotau) During October the Buhutu Team of 4 translators and four checkers worked with consultant Ross Mckerras (A New Zealander) who works in Vanuatu, and he checked 1,209 verses from Old Testament passages ranging from Numbers through Zechariah.

Meilani (front left) is a Discovery Intern from Singapore – with the Buhutu team for 3 mo.

Ross Mckerras asking a question of Grace. He checks the reply against the Hebrew text.

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Ongoing  progress  with  Buhutu  Scriptures    • During the rest of October the Buhutu team did VE's (Vernacular to English, Back Translations)

of additional passages from Leviticus and Numbers, plus 1 & 2 Kings, and prepped more passages from Exodus.

• On November 9th one of our more experienced Buhutu Translators Matiematie Igayoma was ordained as a pastor in the Kwato Church of Papua New Guinea at his Tamonau parish.

• On November 24 thru 27 the Buhutu team (with Russ already back in the States) did village checking of Kings and Exodus passages at Gabite'u village.

Matiematie Igayoma's ordination processional on Sept. 9th, 2014 at Tamonau Kwato Church

Gelani Reiley from Gabite'u village, is a new

Translators Training Course [TTC1] participant

from the 2014 intake

The additional passages prepared in October and November (plus hopefully added chapters from Genesis) are scheduled to be consultant-checked in May 2015 - the last passages for our Buhutu Mini-Bible. Meanwhile the Buhutu team works on the Buhutu songbook, on prepping added Buhutu Gospels for consultant checking, and on drafting the remaining minor epistle passages for checking. Having completed the linguistics write-ups for Buhutu, Russ is now prepping nearly 6,000 entries in the Buhutu Dictionary for electronic publication and on "cleaning up" the VE's [Back Translations] still needing checking in May 2015.

Total It Up in January 2015 In January 2015, Russ is scheduled to be on staff again for the one week Total it Up at a the Lake Retreat Conference Center near Kent, Washington. This one week experience is designed to enable participants to explore the work of Bible Translation and related ministries in a supportive environment as they seek God's

will in their lives for possible future service. Our Buhutu Discovery Intern, Meilani Rita, took part in this TIU program in January of 2013.

(This year's dates are actually December 29, 2014 - January 2, 2015) Please see the attached flyer for details, and feel free to contact us, if interested

God bless, Russ and Mary Cooper.

US address for personal correspondence Russ & Mary Cooper 2800 SE 1st Street, Apt 64 Gresham, Oregon 97080 USA Phone: 503-491-8915 Email: < Russ_Cooper@sil.org>

Wycliffe USA Office for financial support: Wycliffe Bible Translators P.O. Box 628200 Orlando, Florida 32862-8200 USA

You  may  visit  us  on  FaceBook  also.    Russ  has  academic  papers  at  Academia.edu:  <http://sil.academia.edu/RussCooper>    Also  at  PNG  language:    <http://cooperpng.tripod.com/texts.htm?itx>    as  well  as  in  a  Dropbox  archive  (by  invitation)