One of the most useful tools I gained as a student in Bible college was how to study the Bible inductively. It has long been our desire to teach Thai Christians some of what my wife and I learned from those years of study.
Recently one of our former instructors from our alma matter (not only was he an instructor, he was the director) wrote a short, simplified book on the inductive Bible study method. I liked it so much I decided to have it translated into Thai to aid us in making disciples here in central Thailand.
Finding a translator proved very difficult, and I found I was a bit naive on how much that kind of service costs. But we were blessed to be put in contact with a Christian couple from north-eastern Thailand that does translation work. Asger and Nittaya Poulsen did an excellent, and very quick (considering the length of the manuscript) job, and we recently received the final copy of the Living Word Study, by Pastor Trip Kimball, in Thai. Earlier this week we had it printed as a parallel bi-lingual volume, to help foreigners like myself reference things on the page more easily.
We intend to have (Lord willing) our first IBS training in June.
For those of you in need of Thai translation services, I can highly recommend the Poulsens:
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