One day arriving at church with JPCC I was asked to take part in the annual evaluation of the Interpreters ministry. I initially told the person who offered me a head set that I didn’t need it, I could understand and speak Indonesian. But he made it clear to me they wanted my help in evaluating the quality of the interpreter’s work. The services in JPCC are interpreted into a number of different languages – English, Mandarin and other languages as they are requested. Each person receives a headset tagged for the specific language interpreter they require. As I performed the evaluation for the English interpreter, I sat there thinking about the passage in Acts and what I would be writing in the Gem today. It made me think there was no need for an interpreter on the day the Holy Spirit came. Not even for one language, not even Mandarin, let alone English and Italian, Tamil and Thai. All that was needed that day in Jerusalem was for the speaker to speak and each listener heard what was spoken in their own language simultaneously. The miracle was not just in the tongue, it was also a miracle in the ear.
