HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Daniel and I attended New Year's Eve/New Year's service at church 11p-1230a. It should have been until 1am but we live the life of a military family that lives on base... Feel free to just ask me if you don't understand.
So anyway, the day after the New Year's service we went back to church because we took on the responsibility as a church of writing the Bible out. Seriously. Well, I guess technically it was the same day because it was still January 1, but that is obviously not the point of this post.
The Korean church that we attend wanted the congregation to put together a hand written Bible. While the other books of the Bible were in Korean, they allowed the English speaking part of the church to take on the book of John. Daniel and I volunteered to help out, each writing a chapter along with about 13 other people. It was a bit chaotic as there wasn't really a plan other than what paper and pens to use. Apparently the expectation was that our writing match the Bible like line for line. A few issues here... We are humans and not printing machines so none of us write small enough to be able to fit the words on the lines like that; there were 34 lines on the paper and like 60+ lines in the Bible; we each had a different Bible so while they were all ESV, they were different Bibles. Guess they didn't consider all this for the English speakers. The Korean's had pages printed that they were copying down so it was probably easier for them.
I started getting anxious because of the unrealistic expectations and then started joking that I should feel peace about writing the Bible. So after like 20 minutes of the English and Korean leadership deliberating (and the babies and children having crying fits because apparently it was everyone of their nap times), we got started. It took us about 2 hours, well more than that really but I wasn't looking at a clock. Daniel wrote chapter 4 and I wrote chapter 5, not for any significant reasons just volunteered. They were long enough chapters that he and I didn't get done soon enough to write out a second chapter. Plus we couldn't have more than 2 mistakes on a page, yea about that... BAHAHAHA :-D
It was a cool thing to be able to do and take the time to think about. Our pastor was there and he spoke about how cool it must have been for the people that wrote the Bible originally and how they must have stopped to praise and marvel at what they were writing about. Just thinking of being lead by the Spirit and having that faith to know Truth and experiencing that Light!!! :-) :-) :-) :-)
Daniel and I attended New Year's Eve/New Year's service at church 11p-1230a. It should have been until 1am but we live the life of a military family that lives on base... Feel free to just ask me if you don't understand.
So anyway, the day after the New Year's service we went back to church because we took on the responsibility as a church of writing the Bible out. Seriously. Well, I guess technically it was the same day because it was still January 1, but that is obviously not the point of this post.
The Korean church that we attend wanted the congregation to put together a hand written Bible. While the other books of the Bible were in Korean, they allowed the English speaking part of the church to take on the book of John. Daniel and I volunteered to help out, each writing a chapter along with about 13 other people. It was a bit chaotic as there wasn't really a plan other than what paper and pens to use. Apparently the expectation was that our writing match the Bible like line for line. A few issues here... We are humans and not printing machines so none of us write small enough to be able to fit the words on the lines like that; there were 34 lines on the paper and like 60+ lines in the Bible; we each had a different Bible so while they were all ESV, they were different Bibles. Guess they didn't consider all this for the English speakers. The Korean's had pages printed that they were copying down so it was probably easier for them.
I started getting anxious because of the unrealistic expectations and then started joking that I should feel peace about writing the Bible. So after like 20 minutes of the English and Korean leadership deliberating (and the babies and children having crying fits because apparently it was everyone of their nap times), we got started. It took us about 2 hours, well more than that really but I wasn't looking at a clock. Daniel wrote chapter 4 and I wrote chapter 5, not for any significant reasons just volunteered. They were long enough chapters that he and I didn't get done soon enough to write out a second chapter. Plus we couldn't have more than 2 mistakes on a page, yea about that... BAHAHAHA :-D
It was a cool thing to be able to do and take the time to think about. Our pastor was there and he spoke about how cool it must have been for the people that wrote the Bible originally and how they must have stopped to praise and marvel at what they were writing about. Just thinking of being lead by the Spirit and having that faith to know Truth and experiencing that Light!!! :-) :-) :-) :-)
People from our English congregation hard at work.
My finished first page.
God's Love,
Camille
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