Other Helps
Helps For Those Using Interpreters
All cross-cultural workers should have it as their eventual goal to learn the local language of the people with whom they're ministering. However, during that language Learning era, maybe you'll have to use an interpreter some. If so, check out the new compendium, "Interpreting as Ministry" and "Speaking with an Interpreter." (Evidently these are published together within the same covers.)
Find 200 helpful tips to enrich your ministry and help you be a more effective communicator. "Speaking with an Interpreter" is written by Beverly Caruso, author and trainer of writers. Bev has spoken in over 30 nations, often through interpreters. "Interpreting as Ministry" is written by Jim Harper, Founder and Director of the International Christian Interpreters Association, headquartered in Vladivostok, Russia.
Jim conducts one-week schools for Interpreters. Through interviews and questionnaires with missionaries from various missions and denominations, from all parts of the world, you'll find reading both sections of this booklet useful for yourself and your interpreters. Presented in one pocket-sized booklet, this handy 20-page tool is priced so you can carry with you enough copies to leave one with each of your interpreters.
Abba Ministries, PO Box 1388 Lake Elsinore, CA 92531 USA. Or visit their website at: www.Peteandbevcaruso.com
Where Is It Illegal To Share the Gospel?
www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/970722_relig_rpt_christian.html
Course, just because it's illegal to do public proclamation, that doesn't mean that you can't answer legitimate questions on a one-on-one basis!
Learn to Teach English!
Check out the Adventures in English materials the EFCM International Network has put together. Each of the 12 multi-level lessons (beginning, intermediate, advanced) follows a daily life theme and contains a vocabulary section, idioms, grammar, discussion topics and numerous related activities. New for 2000 are a completely revised entry-level curriculum and a second volume of NEW multi-level material called Exploring English.
For more information or a sample of the 2000 materials, contact Don Erickson at 72066.2020@Compuserve.com or click to www.efcm.org/r3/adventures.html .
Reentry Guide for Short-term Mission Leaders
http://members.aol.com/HLisech/DeeperRoots
It's a compilation and expansion of handouts and notes of the intensive reentry workshops the author has conducted at the last five National Short-Term Missions Conferences and a special Short- Term Mission Leaders Retreat. Lisa Espineli Chinn has been conducting reentry seminars for international students and short-term missions since the mid-80's, and authored Think Home: A Practical Workbook for Christian International Students Preparing to Return Home in 1984.
For more information, contact Howard Lisech at HLisech@aol.com.
VIsit the Language Course Finder
Just visit the Language Course Finder www.language-learning.net. It lists more than 6000 institutions teaching 70 different languages from Arabic to Zulu in 81 countries. It's free and can be accessed in 22 languages!
Need a Take-Along Water Filter?
Have you seen the new Ultimate Flask filter water filter? It's supposed to take out all the Cryptosporidium and Giardia you can throw its way. It looks exactly like one of those water bottles you slide into the holder on your bike. You just fill the bottle and squeeze. A filter cleans about 200 liters of water (52 gallons), depending on the amount of impurities in the water. Replacement filters are $10.
In the USA ( call 1-800-426-7229 or from outside the USA call 208-356-0385. What I like about this approach is that one would be able to escape the funny feeling one sometimes gets in a private home, taking water from the faucet and then filtering it. *Sometimes* I feel like the implication is that the water just isn't pure enough for me. . . when the local person drinks it daily. With this Ultimate Flask Filter, one could be a little more . . . shall we say . . . discreet.
They're on the web at www.ultdir.com. I've had one of their water bottle "holsters" for 7 or 8 years . . . and if you drink water, you want to get to know them.
Water Filters To Go
The one liter sport style AquaOne Portable Water Filtration Bottle can, according to its makers, purify just about any water from just about any of world's spigots. Including the original filter, it costs just $20. Each filter is good for 70 gallons. Replacement filters cost just $13.50.
For more information or to order contact Peter Sidebotham. 73362.1503@Compuserve.com