Found in Translation
Several months back a church member brought to our attention a new attender who would like to bring her family to church, except that they know only Spanish. That led to the following development. We have a means of providing translation through earphones. We've also recruited someone to do the translating. I am placing an order this week for the equipment, which will cost $900 to provide transmission to 10 persons (the transmitter ($400) and 10 receivers ($40/per)). All we need now is the money! I've been given permission to seek funds from "my circle," which I count my blog readers as belonging to. If you would like to give to this project, send a check to the church, made out to "Tenth Presbyterian Church" and write "Spanish translation" on the memo line. Depending on how this project works, we may expand to include other languages.
posted by M Clark at 7/25/2005 02:10:00 PM
1 Comments:
is there a biblical argument for this? certainly language does not divide the kingdom of God (every tongue, tribe, and nation will worship the Lord together before the throne), but to what extent can we be a Christian community on earth without really communicating with one another?
i suppose if tenth is in their neighborhood and there are no spanish or bilingual english/spanish churches preaching the gospel in the area it may be worth considering.
but does it follow that we plant churches for ethnic groups in different languages, yet plan to translate our own service into several languages? is tenth the place where this family will best be served? is tenth the best place for this family to serve?
perhaps we should revisit our definition of church.
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