Friday, November 22, 2013, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Dr. Michael Colburn, Mission Specialist in Linguistics and Translation for the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC), will be on St. Vladimir's Seminary's campus to talk about his work in translating Orthodox Christian liturgical texts into native languages in East Africa and Guatemala. Once a missionary linguist / translator with the Wycliffe Bible Translators serving the Ogea people of Papua New Guinea, Dr. Colburn also worked twenty-four years as a full-time software developer and software product manager for the US Government. He has degrees in Biblical Studies, Linguistics, and Computer Science, and he will be discussing the software tools and courses he has developed to help Orthodox Christians around the world worship in their mother tongues.