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Zerflin, Farg, ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ

Hi Miss!

I guess I should tell you about myself. I’m 13 years old, I’m an America, um, I’m an inventor, uh, cartoonist, what else… uh… missionary, um, bookwriter (sci-fi, mostly), computer expert (IBM, mostly), bookworm, and musician.

I like History, English, Gym, Home-Ec, ITT, I hate Math, and I’m not sure about Biology & Geography. Oh yes, I like Computers.

My favourite food is macaroni, and I cook it my own way. Such as, um, say adding processed cheese to it, or adding a cheese packet to it, or, after it is cooked, adding milk to it, or Parmesan cheese, or just eating it plain, but NEVER putting sauce on it. I HATE tomatoes. The only time I eat them is either at the cafeteria or on pizza.

My house has a huge video and book library, if you want to borrow any.

So Miss, what do you like to do?

I have a dog named Sam and a cat named Katy.

I am going to be moving soon to another part of town. There we will have a fenced in yard to protect the pets (we have had a number of pets, mostly cats that died, Katy’s kittens) and that house will be ours (we are renting now). You will have no trouble finding our new house, because it will be the only house in town with 3 dormers, an add-on on the back, a connected garage, and a LARGE greenhouse. The dormers are already built, they were done this summer.

I have a crush on Shannon Uniam, across the hall in Secondary 1. She’s not in Secondary 3 because her birthday is October 29, and I skipped a grade.

Whew! Now I’ll let you write.

Dear Ben,

(Do you prefer Ben or Benjamin?) Well! This has been a very detailed description of yourself. Hmmm… It’s great to have a dish that you know how to cook just so. I like the way I make scrambled eggs. I add vegetables, herbs, and a bit of spice. I also make a pretty good spaghetti sauce—I guess you wouldn’t like it, though. Another specialty I used to have was chocolate chip cookies. My room-mate’s Dad loved them!

Pets… My parents have a very cute dog, Milo. I love them visiting them ad having her to walk and hang out with. They also have a cat. It’s O.K.—Fluffy—but I’m not usually a big cat freak. My sister’s cat, Ed, has lots of personality so my aversion to cats is put aside with her. Yes, the cat is female and yes, it’s named Ed. I want to get a puppy. I need to finish fixing up my “pad”. I should be ready to receive a pup in a couple of weeks. Your new house sounds great! Moving into a new place can be really hectic but a lot of fun too, especially when the new place has character!

As for crushes… I don’t have one on anybody right now. I imagine I’m too busy getting set up. Also, I haven’t met anybody I’d really want to have a crush on! Oh well, life goes on.

Write again—G

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Wycliffe Bible Translators Commence Work – Quebec Diocese Gazette, Oct 1988, by Lynn Ross

This is a black-and-white photo of a family of four. The father, on the left, has a beard and glasses and wears a light-colored sweater. The mother stands next to him in a dark jacket and white shirt, holding a young child in a winter coat on her hip. In front of the mother is a young boy, Benjamin Jancewicz, smiling slightly and wearing a vest over a long-sleeve shirt. The family stands close together, appearing outdoors near a wooden structure or wall.
This is a black-and-white photo of a family of four. The father, on the left, has a beard and glasses and wears a light-colored sweater. The mother stands next to him in a dark jacket and white shirt, holding a young child in a winter coat on her hip. In front of the mother is a young boy, Benjamin Jancewicz, smiling slightly and wearing a vest over a long-sleeve shirt. The family stands close together, appearing outdoors near a wooden structure or wall.
The Jancewicz family, Bill, his wife, Norma Jean, holding their daughter Elizabeth, and their son, Benjamin, at Kawawachikamach, near Schefferville, in Northern Quebec. Photo: Lynn Ross

Wycliffe Bible Translators, with over five thousand members, is one of the largest mission, non-denominational, Bible translating ministries in the world.

In June, Mr. Bill Jancewicz, his wife, Norma Jean, and son, Benjamin, aged five, arrived at Kawawachikamach, near Schefferville, as representatives of the Wycliffe Bible Translators, to work with the Naskapi people in translating the scriptures into the Naskapi language.

The work of this missionary society began over fifty years ago, founded by Mr. William Cameron Townshend who went to Guatemala to sell Spanish Bibles and discovered many could not speak Spanish.

In response to this challenge, he settled there and began to translate the scriptures into the language of the people. This work made him aware of other cultures which did not have the scriptures in their own language so he founded a school in Arkansas called “Camp Wycliffe” to begin training volunteer translators.

“Wycliffe” comes from John Wycliffe who was one of the first translators of the scriptures into the English language.

Mr. Jancewicz said that members of the Wycliffe Bible Translators believe that the Bible is “the Word of God and every man should have it in his own language.”

Translators volunteer and spend their first two years learning the language, then the actual translation of the Old Testament commences. At the end of two years, there is a re-evaluation and the decision is made to continue the work or to leave.

The presence of the Jancewicz family in Northern Quebec is already making an impression. Mr. Jancewicz who is a mechanical illustrator and a civil servant with the United States Federal Government but who has been led to commit his life to what he believes is eternal and God’s Word is something that is eternal.

Following training in theology and nine months of training in the French language they arrived at Kawawachikamach to continue work which had begun with the efforts of two individuals, Lana Martens and Carol Chase who came in 1979 to Matimekosh, the former Naskapi village.

Volunteers who commit themselves to translation work must arrange for their own remuneration. The Jancewicz family has their financial support from three churches and receive whatever amount is donated to Wycliffe Translators in their name.

This ministry is indeed an act of faith and commitment. For further information write Wycliffe Bible Translators, Huntington Beach, CA 92647, U.S.A.