Wish list of a Bible paraphraser

I COULD USE SOME VOLUNTEER HELP.

For the past several years I’ve been working on an easy-reading Bible paraphrase that people who aren’t Christian can read and understand.

Throughout those years, I’ve been paying all the people I can handle in my effort to keep the Casual English Bible free online:

web designers, web developers, search engine optimization specialists, proofreaders, eBook producers, and publishers.

I think I’m at the point where I should see if there are any kind souls out there with some skillsets I could use to help finish this work.

There are 66 books in the Protestant Bible.

I have paraphrased 47, with 19 to go. I’ve created maps for every book that has geography going on. I wrote Q&A leader’s guides for the New Testament and Genesis. And I’ve published Bible atlases in PDF, eBook, and paperback.

I’ve been kinda busy.

I want to pick up the pace and focus mostly on the paraphrasing and the maps. But that’s hard to do because of the side jobs I have to do, as well.

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Here’s my wish list of a Bible paraphraser. This is what I could use. People who know what they’re doing as:

• proofreaders and editors. To help refine the work.
• search engine optimization. Google apparently needs help finding stuff to include in its search results.
• legal support. I need help sending out take-down requests to people and companies using the maps illegally.
• marketing. Gumroad along with WooCommerce on WordPress are convenient for selling the maps and leader’s guides, mostly to Bible study leaders and pastors. But I don’t have time to market these effectively and manage the sales. The 3D maps are pretty cool and doggone unique. But most folks don’t know they exist.
• curriculum writers. I need good writers to finish writing the Q&A Leader’s Guides for the Old Testament books.
• web developers. I have a fine web developer. But I could use some volunteer support and backup on smaller web problems that develop.
• app-builder. I don’t have an app for the Casual English Bible. That needs to change.
• book designer. Once I get the New Testament proofed, I want to create a paperback Casual English Bible New Testament, with the book introduction, footnotes, and color maps.
• donors. I have 5 so far, helping me cover some of the expenses. The software alone costs hundreds of dollars a month.

Everything on this list, I’ve been doing. Most of the items on the list, at one time or another, I’ve paid others to do.

But it’s a strain on the body and budget.

Not that I’m Moses, but the advice his father-in-law gave him seems particularly relevant.

“You’re going to wear yourself out… It’s too much for one person. You can’t do this by yourself…Delegate. Pick some men to help you [women too, now that we’re post-patriarchal]. Find capable men who respect God and the truth…Let them shoulder part of the work…you’ll have more energy for the day [and for the paraphrasing]” (Exodus 18:17-23).

Savvy souls

In areas that require expertise, I need people who know what to do.

For those who who to help but don’t have the skills I need:

If you know someone who knows someone, let someone know.

My dogs would appreciate it. They come up to the office to get me at 9 pm. because they want me to come downstairs and relax. But mostly, I think, they want their evening biscuit.

Sometimes I hear my wife sending them up.

“Go get daddy. He’s upstairs”

Tonight, I writing a wish list for a Bible paraphraser.

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