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Letter from the Irpen Biblical Seminary President
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Greetings from your Ukrainian family. We are thankful to God for the grace and mercy He has shown to us during 20 years of ministry in Ukraine. We have grown from 40 to 300 students and 1,215 students have graduated from the seminary. Ninety-five percent of our graduates are in fulltime ministry. Praise to the Lord!
Every year, we are always amazed at God’s protection, help, and goodness to our seminary. We are so grateful for your prayers, love, and faithful support. Because of you, we were able to accomplish many acts of ministry.
The Ukrainian flag is half blue and half yellow. The blue represents heaven and the yellow represents harvest. We view our job as exactly the same — to help people move from yellow to blue — that they would become the children of heaven, the children of God.
Thank you very much for everything that you have done for Irpen Biblical Seminary, and always remember that your efforts are not in vain. God is using YOU in our lives and in the ministry here in Ukraine for His Kingdom. You are always in our thoughts and prayers.
With love in Christ,
Dr. Igor M. Yaremchuk
President
24/Dec/2011 12:14i
28/Dec/2011 7:13
About how many scholars and translators would be needed to complete a
series of “study Bibles” using a recently translated edition of the
Bible in modern Russian language? (wide variety of formats: paper, hard
cover, leather; plain, with cross-references and concordance; with added
charts, study notes, introductions, articles, essays, research helps?)
In USA it usually takes about 100 scholars about 4-7 years to do a fresh
Bible translation, and 2-4 more years to add in the helps, notes,
charts, introductions, cross references; no idea on how much this adds
to; but street retail prices on Amazon.com for a finished hardcover
Bible with about 2,500 pages might be around $28-40; maybe $10-20 more
for leather cover; maybe around $20 less for same Bible without study
notes and helps.
If nomey was no problem and as many scholars could be hired part and
full time; what are some estimates on cost and time needed to turn a
recent Russian translation into the various types of popular editions
all the way up to a 3,000 page leather study Bible?
What money can do is to “compress/cut time” by using more workers and
larger resources.
In Russia with a need so great, If I had unlimited resourcesm, I’d
probably put 500 scholars to work and probably spend $100 million up
front instead of hiring 25 scholars and spending 10 years on the project
This is not a lot of money to the world. USA airlines spend around $250
million each for just one Boeing 777 jet to fly 300 passengers around.
With Russia so far behind, and being the huge group of people it is;
it might call for gigantic task force of say 200-300 workers and $30
million per year to cover labor and annual research costs; but then
maybe get it done in say only 3 years and out the streets where it is
needed.
God being gigantic enough to “afford” that much and more if needed,
what are some figures’ you’d give out in speaking to the world about the
NATION-WIDE needs of Eastern Euope to THINK BIGGER ABOUT HELPING RUSSIA
GET THE BIBLE OUT TO MILLIONS OF MODERN RUSSIANS?
Sincerely,
Mark Culbertson
Detroit Michigan USA.