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JCBT English Newsletter January 2021

(The zeros here are a model of the COVID 19 virus located in a New York glass museum) Jerusalem Center: 2020 to 2021! Dear friends and co-workers! Let us welcome the new year boldly with a New Song. Let us put the focus on the NEW, so beautifully expressed in Psalm 33:3-4: “Sing unto Him a new song, play skillfully with a …

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JCBT Newsletter March 2021

  From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday! Dear beloved friends and co-workers, Greetings from the Jerusalem Center for Translators! Let us walk through the events of this significant week together in our thoughts and spirits. The week includes the Passover night celebration about the joy of gaining freedom from slavery in Egypt to the joyful celebration of gaining Eternal Life through repentance and forgiveness …

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JCBT English Newsletter February 2021

NEWS of NEW BEGINNINGS: overcoming Corona by Zoom teaching! Teaching sent from Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, to the countries of the students of 2021. “For Instruction will come out of Zion and the Word of the  Lord from Jerusalem”. Isaiah 2:3 Dear friends and co-workers! Greetings from Jerusalem on Feb. 21st, the INTERNATIONAL DAY OF MOTHER-TONGUE TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE. Greetings …

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RESPONSE TO CORONA: SUCCESSFUL PAST & EXCITING FUTURE

Dear friends, alumni and colleagues, “This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it”. Psa. 118:24. HOMECOMINGS Finally, we here at JCBT are in a position to share the news that all the national students of 2020 have reached home. The last 5 had to wait for flights home for one whole month …

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THE GRADUATION CLASS OF 2020

THE WINNERS! In the featured image above: Corona Year: 13 Graduates from 9 countries with the directors and Hebrew instructors. (Several faces blurred for security reasons.) Dear friends,  ” This is the day the Lord has made – let us exult and rejoice in it”. Ps. 118:24 Indeed,  this is the group that came out victorious from a semester during which three …

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RISING FROM CORONA: work goes on

Is. 40:6 A voice says, “Cry!”All flesh is grass,and all its goodlinessis like the flower of the field. Is. 40:7 The grass withers, the flower fadeswhen the breath of the LORD blows on it;surely the people are grass. Is. 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades,but the word of our God will stand forever.   Dear friends, The Corona virus …

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JCBT 2020 Easter Message

The following is the message that was sent to JCBT friends during the season of 2020 Easter and Passover. Dear friends, Greetings from the Jerusalem Center for Bible Translators! We want to wish you joy and peace in the midst of worldwide anxiety and gloom. The reality of the Risen Lord, who overcame death and offers everlasting life for the …

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A Norwegian article on JCBT

He trains Bible translators in the land of the Bible Kenneth Fjell Rasmussen, Perspektiv Magazine. JERUSALEM: Norwegian-American Halvor Ronning is convinced that all who translate The Bible, should know Hebrew and geography. In the Messianic-Jewish village Yad Hashmona, just west of Jerusalem, stands a great timber building in Finnish style. The building is the headquarters of the Jerusalem Center for …

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JCBT 2019 Christmas Update

Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Alumni, Greetings from the Jerusalem Center for Bible Translators! We have the joy of wishing you a blessed time of celebration from the Judean hills, not far from Bethlehem. We are happy to share with you the many events of the passing year and look forward to the anticipation of the upcoming year of service in …