"Paul, you're crazy! You've read too many books, spent too much time staring off into space! Get a grip on yourself, get back in the real world!" (Acts 26:24, The Message)
Sometimes I feel a little like Festus’ evaluation of Paul.
Our ministry revolves around books, but I was able to “get back in the real world” this week as I hopped the bus and subway to a government office in downtown Sao Paulo. I was on mission business, the latest in a series of frustrated attempts to register some important documents. I spent half an hour in the government office and 2-1/2 hours in transit. Maybe this time the red tape vigilantes will give us the green light. I will only find out two weeks from now.
Back to books. Get a grip! I finally finished editing/proofreading the latest book for Vida Nova publishers: Group’s Emergency Response Handbook for Youth Ministry (the Portuguese version, of course). Besides correcting the translation (Brazil translators don’t always “get the drift” of the English text), I also wrote an additional chapter which addressed the problem of employment for young people in Brazil. It’s a different reality here, and we wanted to contextualize our book for Brazilian youth workers. Lalia did a final reading for the finer points of Portuguese grammar and style which are still out of my reach. We make a good editing team.
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