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Potted History of the Pillingers (2)

For the last couple of weeks you’ve been biting your nails, wondering what brought Steve and Johanna together after Johanna turned him down like a bedspread. We will now put you out of your misery.
As we said last time, the idea was first mooted (in Steve’s mind) while we were both doing our training at [...]

Welcome to the Rendille!

This is a presentation made in Steve’s early days among the Rendille people of northern Kenya. It’s slightly dated (umm… 1984!), but still gives a good impression of the traditional Rendille way of life, which has changed little in recent decades. It also illustrates some of the stages involved in reducing a spoken language to [...]

The last lap!

Yes, folks, I’m delighted to say that I’m entering the last lap with the Chumburung typesetting. This has been quite a marathon!
My back has been behaving itself, PTL, and I managed to complete the work I needed to do with Keir and Gillian Hansford by the end of July. We finished the last of the [...]

Printing problems SOLVED!

If you’re one of those (including ourselves) who have tried to print out pages from our website, only to get a jumble of pictures and text that looks like nothing on earth… fear not! Help is at hand!
Several folk have emailed us saying that either they get a mess, or they can’t print it at [...]

Missing Typesetter found!

High Wycombe, Monday 20th July. It was confirmed today that Steve Pillinger, the typesetter who went missing from the UK headquarters of Wycliffe Bible Translators in mid-April, has officially returned to work. After a three-month absence with back problems, he is now sufficiently recovered to work at least half-days. His colleagues Keir and Gillian Hansford, [...]

Missing Typesetter ’sighted’

High Wycombe, Friday 17th July. Unconfirmed reports say that Steve Pillinger, the typesetter who went missing from the UK headquarters of Wycliffe Bible Translators in mid-April, was briefly sighted sneaking back into the Typesetting Services department today. Positive identification was not possible from the blurred snapshot taken by a member of staff (who did not [...]

Potted History of the Pillingers (1)

Steve and Johanna were born at an early age. Separately, of course: Johanna in Tanzania (yes, that’s right: Tanzania, then the British colony of Tanganyika); and Steve in South Africa. They grew up speaking different languages. Steve spoke a South African dialect that might loosely be called ‘English’; and Johanna spoke a corrupted version of [...]

How the World sees Africa

This would be hilarious, if it wasn’t probably true!
In the UK people might put ‘Zimbabwe’ instead of ‘Sudan’…
Ties in with a question I was asked by a US international telephone operator years ago when I wanted to put a call through to South Africa. “Which country in South Africa, sir?”
Also, more recently, the friend of [...]

Independence is driving round the block

Steve is glad to say his back is going forward!
Not long ago Keir and Gillian Hansford came to our home to have a face-to-face session on the pictures for the Chumburung Bible.
For months now we’ve been working independently, the Hansfords doing a complete proofread of the scripture text while I’ve been working on the pictures, [...]

Welcome!

We’re Steve and Johanna Pillinger, and we work with Wycliffe Bible Translators in the United Kingdom. Wycliffe is a Christian charity that aims to make the Bible available in every language in the world, so that people can read it in their own heart-language.
Steve manages the Wycliffe UK Typesetting Services Department, preparing computer texts brought [...]

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