October Newsletter: Comic Cons, Customs and Questions

Peek at the Book of Esther

In this image, you can see the scribes writing in the ancient languages of the day, a messenger drawn from contemporary reference including a Persian rug that has been preserved for 2500 years! 

Here is a review of the Book of Esther, from Bible Scholar Christopher R. Smith who consults for us:

https://goodquestionblog.com/2019/09/13/esther-in-the-word-for-word-bible-comic-another-tour-de-force/?fbclid=IwAR2oYwB_UW41SoaUt6vfjIyOaoTne-InUBgWysgnB2j-RQoD_b_xRvRvE8A
 

Christmas post, Customs and Brexit. 

We'd love to ensure that if you live outside the UK that we can provide your Christmas orders on time.

Anything we post after October 31st may be delayed*

So please place your Christmas orders before the end of this month :
https://www.wordforwordbiblecomic.com/buy

*After Brexit everything posted out to the EU from the UK will be subject to new customs checks.

We have been advised by Royal Mail that all orders destined for the EU will have to be accompanied by customs paperwork (something we currently don't need).

We suspect that this extra documentation may create some delay in processing not just to the EU but all outgoing postage and the situation will be compounded by the busy period in the run-up to Christmas.

We are hopeful everything will turn out just fine but would hate for anyone to be disappointed.

Five Question Survey 

Please take a minute to fill in this very short multiple-choice survey. It is about the Bible translation inside the Word for Word Bible Comic and if you think it should change to a modern translation like the NIV or NLT.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BC3XTLM

Radio interview UCB2

At the end of September, myself and my wife Siân were interviewed on USB2 Radio. You can listen now to the interview about our journey, our faith and what it has been like working on the Bible Comic. (~35min, please listen before it expires) 

https://soundcloud.com/ucbmedia/this-is-my-story-sian-simon-amadeus-pillario-word-for-word-bible-comic?fbclid=IwAR0ls23ftwDn6XzU75jAXetsZ2-Y1doe6vIHRJBXKtO5MT32P02i82mNI_0

Comic Cons 

This month we have two big Comic Cons. 

First on Oct 19-20th, Bristol Comic and Gaming Con. This is the first con in Bristol from organisers UKCGF in Bristol and they seem to have gone all out to make it a big one. There are loads of big guests from Game of Thrones and a whole Wizarding World subevent happening at the same time at the con. If you're within a few hours drive of Bristol you should come down! (In this image you can see the GoT guests, unfortunately, James Cosmo had to cancel, but has been replaced by Julian Glover!) 

The next weekend, Oct 25th-27th, I will be in London for MCM Comic Con at the Excel arena. This is a huge event that claims to have 100,000 people passing through over the long weekend. I believe may table number is 150. So come along and come and find me. 

Progress and Prayer

I have been working my way through the nativity of Matthews gospel over the last few weeks. It has been challenging as there is so much misinformation and high expectations around this part of the story but it's looking good and now I'm just going on to the parts that cross over with Mark following Jesus' baptism.

Please pray for our time at these comic cons, that we can make the Bible available to people who would otherwise never read it and in practice that we get there ok, healthy and it goes well. 

Please continue to pray for God to have his hand on the situation regarding the Bible translations and making the right choices there, as well as helpful responses to the survey which can guide our decisions in that area.