Archive - 2010

Shalom Dear Friends,

RUSSIAN LANGUAGE PROJECT

We are very happy to report that our Russian language project continues to move ahead at a good pace. Since we reported last month, our first 58 pages have been translated by Olga and returned to us. Chiara is working at getting them in place for publication on HaDavar’s Internet site. This aspect of the project has been a real challenge considering the fact that she does not know a lick of Russian or the Cyrillic alphabet. She has learned quickly and we will have the pages checked before we publish them on the Internet.

Shalom Dear Friends,

SPONSOR A LANGUAGE PAGE

We are very happy to report that our Russian language project is moving ahead nicely. Since we reported last month, our test pages have been translated and our technical abilities and procedures have checked out. As a result, we have sent our translator the first 58 pages of our website to be translated into Russian.

We are working with Peter Shirokov, a missionary with Chosen People Ministries, stationed in New York city. He has recommended a translator, Olga, who lives in Krasnoyarsk, an industrial city of one million people located in south central Siberia. Olga estimates that she will have the translation done in approximately one month.

Shalom Dear Friends,

LANGUAGE UPDATE

One of our deeply desired goals is to present HaDavar’s ministry on a worldwide basis through languages other than English. The four most prominent languages used by the worldwide Jewish community today are English, Hebrew, Spanish, and Russian. As a result, Hebrew, Spanish, and Russian comprise our target languages. We would be thrilled to have our web site presented in additional languages (we already have a good selection of pages in German), but those languages represent our primary goals.

Shalom Dear Friends,

OUR TRIBUTE

This month we want to praise and glorify God and thank Him for the gift of one of His choice saints. This newsletter is HaDavar's tribute to our friend Morey Lokken.

Morey

One of the ways Morey served the Lord was to staff our Bible book table on the campus of the University of California, Irvine almost every Friday these past 19 months.

Unfortunately (from our human perspective), at the end of January Morey was riding his bicycle, as was his daily practice. The rain had produced a muddy spot on the bike trail that Morey did not see. The ensuing crash left him with a serious brain injury in spite of the fact that he was wearing a helmet. He was rushed to a local hospital where the doctors predicted that he would not live.

Shalom Dear Friends,

NEW WEBSITE!

I am very pleased to announce the roll-out of a brand new and upgraded HaDavar website (you are viewing the new website now). Many of you may have realized this already when you received and read the January newsletter on the new website. If you have not gone to the new site, the address is the same (www.hadavar.org). However, if you have bookmarked the site previously, do not use your old bookmark to go there. Your old bookmark will take you to the old site. Instead, type our address in the address box at the top of your browser window and hit enter. If the old site still shows up then push your refresh button a couple of times to put the new site into the cache. If you see the word “drupal” in the address, not to worry. Drupal is the name of the program Chiara used to create the new website.