An evening of Mission from the Ivory Coast: The Bible through the eye of a local translation team Margaret Bohoussou (née Linton) has spent over 20 years working alongside translators in various West African countries to help them complete a number of Bible and other Scripture translation projects. She is still very much a Northern Ireland lady, originally hailing from the Frosses in County Antrim. In March 2009 she is coming back to Northern Ireland to speak about her work and about the land that she has grown to love - Cote d'Ivoire. Margaret works for the Bible Society of Cote d'Ivoire and is based in the capital Abidjan. Through her emails she has fascinated us with her stories of the triumphs and challenges in checking manuscripts ready for printing so that many people, not just Ivorians, but those in other countries as well, can get access to Scripture. A programme of speaking engagements is being planned for Margaret so that she can provide audiences with insights into the role of the Bible translator, the process through which high quality Scriptures are ultimately printed in the languages that people speak today, and how this work is supported from outside the country. This international effort ensures that these essential projects can be carried through to completion. We hope that such an event would be a great encouragement to people and a challenge to churches and individual Christians to value the work of Margaret and her colleagues. If your church would like to host a gathering for people in your area, drawn from other churches as well as from your own, please contact us here at Bible House (Tel. 9032 6577) so that we can discuss how this could be designed into the programme that we are preparing for Margaret. Listen to John Doherty interviewing Margaret in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, at the 200th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the Society (1743kb) Requires  get it here September 2008