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Trinitarian Bible Society – Quarterly Recordbattered vehicles in the airport car park, thepoorly maintained roads and pavements—and the streets packed with pedestrians,cyclists, moped-riders and all mannerof cars, minibuses and other motorisedcontraptions, plus, of course, an assortmentorphanage and a seminary and pastors achurch in Kathmandu, as well as being aboard member overseeing a number ofchurches throughout Nepal.On Wednesday, 2 May we had a morningmeeting with ten other pastors,Kathmandu from the airof ‘sacred’ cows that wandered in the streetswith impunity.After a short period of settling-in, we hadour first meeting‘Sacred’ cows eating rubbish on thestreets of Kathmandu(including dinner) later that afternoon withDr Keen, founder of FirstBible International,and the four men whom he brought withhim on the visit. This was followed by alate evening meeting with Wesley Grahamof the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulsterand his co-worker, Paul Thapa of the NepalMission to the Unreached, who runs anmissionaries and local church leaders drawnfrom different organisations, churches anddenominations, including Wesley Graham,Paul Thapa and Daniel Rai (co-translator ofthe TBS Nepali Bible). The meeting providedan excellent platform for the GeneralSecretary to present the work and principlesof the Society, for Daniel Rai to give a briefoutline of the twenty-seven year history ofthe translation, and for me to explain thepurpose of the visit.As a number of improvements to thevocabulary employed in the TBS NepaliBible had been suggested by severalA motorised contraption10