Minority language recording with a twist

I recently helped record the Gospel of Mark in a minority language. The speakers live in a place where it is dangerous to evangelize, so everyone--including me--traveled to a neutral country to do the recording. 

There's also a translation team working in a related minority language who are all women. The Wycliffe translator who is working with them (online, not face-to-face) would like to do a similar recording with them in a neutral place in the near future. However, in this culture, married women cannot sit around a table like this with other men unless their husbands (or other women) are also present. Since these women's husbands would not be accompanying them, ideally the recording team would also include women.

The Wycliffe translator (present but not seen in this photo) was pleased, during the last recording that we did, to find that there is, in fact, a woman who is a media specialist and does the same thing I do. I was able to introduce him to this person who--to make it even better--actually lives in the neutral country where we did our last recording. The Wycliffe translator was able to meet her personally and discuss the possible recording project. Though she won't be able to do the project herself, she put the Wycliffe translator in touch with another woman who might be.

Praising the One who connects,

Keith Holmes