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Show SECTION 111 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29. EDITOR Fox- - Doug 2007 dfoxheraldextra.com 344-254- LaRae Free Kerr It's All Relatives -- t -v. BACKUP YOUR MEMORIES 'fSs H.: ti'j!:'- Photos A Bible in Urdu Most by IAN McVEAFort Worth is among the many translations produced by the World Bible Translation Center in North Richland Hills, Texas. Yanslatin the Good Book Center works Translation Center HB x misinterpreted Wrapping paper was scattered about, and our little piles of loot were carefully separated from everyone else's. Grandma spontaneously started "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Soon Aunt Helen joined in with her rich contralto. Mom, her brother, the four grandchildren and even Grandpa and my Dad joined in. The little house was warmed by glowing fires the fireplace in the living room and the cook stove in the kitchen. Rich smells of turkey, n green beans, sweet potatoes, real venison mince pies and wonder of wonders Gram's glorious lemon pies, filled the kitchen. The adults ate at the kitchen table which had every possible leaf added. They used every chair. We four granddaughters had a card table in the nearest bedroom. Chairs were up to us. We used the bed on one side and found a barrel and box for two I Where: 4028 Daley Ave., MarkAgee North Richland Hills, Texas MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS I Translators: A ous peace. We were at Grandma and Grandpa Wadsworth's house along with aunts, uncles and cousins. A light snow covered the southern Nevada town. The Christmas tree we had chosen was lit with bubble lights. Glass balls from my mother's childhood and much-use- d gold gar- lands wound around the tree. World Bible soWordisrit n About a the home office; a network of dozens around the world. few years ago, the World Bible; Translation Center hired a Chinese scientist to help transd late the Bible into Chinese. The man was an avowed atheist when he began the translation. Before he was finished, he asked Dale Randolph, the director of the North Richland Hills, Texas-base- d organization, to baptize him in a hotel bathtub in Thailand. "It's been a long, interesting road," said Randolph, who has run the nonprofit for the past 35 years. Since its founding in Arlington, Texas, in 1973, the center has translated the Good Book into more than two dozen languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Yi and Urdu. Translators have completed New Testaments and portions of the Bible in about 20 other tongues and are working on translations in Swahili, Haitian Creole and Zulu. Last year, the group distributed 2 million Bibles through mission- aries worldwide and outposts in six countries, Randolph said. "We want to reach people who don't know about Jesus, at a level that half-doze- in I Education: Staff translators are schooled in Hebrew and Greek; the teams easy-to-rea- hired internationally are native speakers of the language translation on which they are working. Funding: The WBTC, a nonprofit, has a budget of about $4 million this year. The money is from private Dale Randolph, pictured at his office on Nov. 13, is CEO of World Bible Translation Center in North Richland Hills, Texas penetrates cultures," he said. Making it easy to read The center's niche is to focus on translations that are accessible to the relatively uneducated. Transe lators are told to aim for a reading level whenever third-grad- possible. That is because the language of the Bible can be impenetrable even for those who can read it, as old translations for believers become out of date and hard for modern speakers to follow. "Languages have changed," Randolph said. No one Bible translation reaches everyone, said SO, PA6, WHAT ARE YOU YEAR'S DOING FOR NEW Brian McLemore, the group's vice president of translation. "There's pockets of millions of people who don't have a text they can understand," McLemore said. The goal is to have a Bible that sounds conversational to native speakers, so readers can teach How it works After searching Kenya and Tanzania, Stringham spent early No- - OUR CHURCH EVE THIS YEAR? IS WE SPECIAL SERVICE... A WILL SOME RING more sides. The littlest granddaughter stood up, which made her just the right height to eat vember in Western Africa's Ivory Coast tracking down educated people who could read, write and speak both Swahili and English. He hired a team of six, including See BIBLE, comfortably. When we were all seated, my Dad said the prayer, "And dear Lord, remember our brother ; John who is in Germany in the Army this Christmas. Bless him D2 See DO SOME SINGING. SPEND PRAYER, AND THEN THE NEW YEAR WITH A TIME IN ) Goal: To create and distranslatribute tions of the Bible in any language required. I More Info: www.wbtc.com easy-to-rea- d translation for Africa. HAVING home-grow- donors. themselves. "We want something that sounds very natural in the mother tongue," said David Stringham, the organization's director of people "back up" computer to protect it from power failures and all kinds of computer errors. It's a good idea, too, to "back up" reminiscences and memoirs, though for different reasons and in different ways. My own favorite Christmas occurred in 1954. Since I was a child when this event occurred, I later wondered, "Why was my uncle in the Army? How did he get home with nobody knowing about it? Could this coincidence just be a wrinkle in my memory?" So I set out to "back up" my memory with supporting information. Here's the story, titled "Home for Christmas" the way I first wrote it: My mother's oldest brother was killed in the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium in World War II, just one month after I was born. Her second brother served in the Korean War and returned with irreparably damaged health. 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