While many thousands are gathered at Brunstad in Norway to the Summer Conference, there are even more around the world, sitting and following along via BrunstadTV. The message is translated to 17 languages, and in the Amazon in Brazil, a zealous translation team is sitting and translating the transmissions to Portuguese.
Text: Johanne Reiersrud – Photo: BCC Brazil
The BCC membership numbers have been steadily increasing over the last decades, both in Norway and world-wide. Besides the more well-known European languages English, Dutch, German and French, the conferences are translated to such languages as Turkish, Russian, Bulgarian, and Chinese, just to mention a few.
Long-distance translation: Ionara, Eloane and Aline in action from Para, in the Amazon. Photo: BCC Brazil
Technical Investments and Transmission Station in the Jungle
Ionora (22) tells us that the technical side functions are much better than previously, after they invested in a new internet solution in the meeting hall in Para. Some years ago, we experienced problems with receiving signals from the TV transmitters, she explains. So, we decided to invest in a new solution which enabled us to use streaming via the net instead. It was a bit difficult, since we live far into the Amazon, but we got it together and now everything works much better, she confirms satisfied. Members from BCC in Germany helped us to purchase transmission equipment to the translation work itself, so now we translate everything, right here from Para. We also transmit this to the other four churches in Brazil who are watching Brunstad TV in their own churches.