Did you know that in all my years of hoovering up useless facts and overfilling my brain with frivolous knowledge, I never once thought to look up what Louvre meant? I mean, we just call it The Louvre. Why would you think it would mean something else? Despite the fact that it's in France and is probably a French word and might have an English equivalent.
Does anyone else regularly do the stroke protocol on themselves?
Look, this only came up because I was working on French. And I saw the word L'oeuvre. And naturally, my brain took a spiral. In the booklet, the English equivalent is 'work.' That makes sense, right? The Louvre in Paris displays work. Except it is spelled differently. So I had to do some research. And the Internet says it has nothing to do with that. There was talk of wolves. Basically, it's called the Louvre, and no one knows why.
Thanks, Internet.
Obviously, we missed last week's post. I ended up taking Friday off so I could help my mom run our annual garage sale. For several years now, I've been coordinating a campus-wide garage sale. It always looks a little different, but basically, several OMSers get together and have a giant sale in the picnic pavilion on campus. It's a great place for it because we have tables ready to use, and no one knows where we live. Plus, we're under cover, so rain isn't as much of a problem. Anyway, this will likely be the last one I do for a while. It's a lot of work, hence me taking the day off.
So last week, I was still working on French. And this week, obviously. But I finished that Tuesday and moved on to a behemoth of a project. We're republishing two versions of English because we've updated the art sets. One of them has African art (which we need for the new VCP initiative coming soon) and the other has Universal art. Theoretically, we could use this art in any country and not run into any issues of unintentionally offending someone because the people don't look like they do. Personally, I think this won't be a problem because I think the new art looks mostly like aliens. But maybe it's just me.
Does anyone else regularly do the stroke protocol on themselves?
Look, this only came up because I was working on French. And I saw the word L'oeuvre. And naturally, my brain took a spiral. In the booklet, the English equivalent is 'work.' That makes sense, right? The Louvre in Paris displays work. Except it is spelled differently. So I had to do some research. And the Internet says it has nothing to do with that. There was talk of wolves. Basically, it's called the Louvre, and no one knows why.
Thanks, Internet.
Obviously, we missed last week's post. I ended up taking Friday off so I could help my mom run our annual garage sale. For several years now, I've been coordinating a campus-wide garage sale. It always looks a little different, but basically, several OMSers get together and have a giant sale in the picnic pavilion on campus. It's a great place for it because we have tables ready to use, and no one knows where we live. Plus, we're under cover, so rain isn't as much of a problem. Anyway, this will likely be the last one I do for a while. It's a lot of work, hence me taking the day off.
So last week, I was still working on French. And this week, obviously. But I finished that Tuesday and moved on to a behemoth of a project. We're republishing two versions of English because we've updated the art sets. One of them has African art (which we need for the new VCP initiative coming soon) and the other has Universal art. Theoretically, we could use this art in any country and not run into any issues of unintentionally offending someone because the people don't look like they do. Personally, I think this won't be a problem because I think the new art looks mostly like aliens. But maybe it's just me.
Anyway, it's a huge project because I'm essentially working on two languages at the same time. Sure, it's the same language, but it's also two completely different sets of files. But I need to make sure they look identical when it comes to text and layout. I've been going a little crazy with it switching back and forth between files. But some challenges I don't mind.
So, funny story. Last week was the leadership chapel (which varies depending on who is around) and we were praying for various things. But the first thing we were supposed to pray for was the world. I found that to be a fairly vague charge while also being daunting because the world is rather a large place. But I'm game for anything, so I prayed for the world. It went a little something like this:
"Dear God, the world sucks. This is not news to you, but I need you to understand that I totally get why you'd want to destroy everything with a flood. However, you promised not to do that anymore, so we're kinda stuck with things. Help us not to be overwhelmed by the overwhelming amount of suckage. Give us strength to address the problems in our own little corner and the wisdom to do what you'd have us do that is in line with your will. In Jesus' name, Amen."
It's probably the first time I've ever begun a prayer that way. It will likely not be the last.
This week was always bound to be crazy. It's a major training week, so we have about 20 people in town from all over the world to learn about Train & Multiply. That means lots of back and forth from the office to a local church where the training is being held. Do I sometimes just go over for lunch? Yes. Am I bothered by this? No. It was really cool, though, to see everyone. We had people representing every continent except for Antarctica here, which is a great reminder that my job truly has global impact.
Speaking of...
I don't know how they decide who gets what, but if you donate to OMS, chances are good that you'll soon be receiving the new Global Impact Report. It's something we're going to do every year to show how what OMS is doing is having an effect around the world. Like with many of our larger publications, I acted as another set of eyes in the proofreading phase. So if something is wrong, obviously they changed it after I looked at it. Or something.
I think that's about it. Next week, I anticipate more English and hopefully a prayer letter. What would you guys like to hear about in this one?
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