Retired Bible translators and consultants can now continue working or consulting in Paratext, while maintaining access to all of the resources they had before.
Yes! As a veteran Bible translator or consultant, we expect you may want to continue involvement after retirement. However, this is sometimes difficult if your work email address is removed. Your organization’s policy might also require you to be moved out of their Paratext organization as you no longer have an active role under their supervision.
Fear not! We want to honor your many years of commitment and sacrifice in helping make God’s Word accessible to people around the world! To do this, there is a new Paratext organization called the Platinum Group. When a member in good standing with a Bible translation organization retires, the organization’s administrator can move them to the Platinum Group with a few words of explanation. The registry administrators will see that and approve it without any questions. This way, you will maintain access to all of the resources you had before and can continue working or consulting in Paratext.
Of course, your access to the projects that you worked on previously will be determined by the managing organization.
We trust this will be helpful and encouraging for our retirees. You have sacrificed so much to make God’s Word accessible in the languages and formats that people clearly understand! Thank you and may God bless you with a deeper relationship with Him. 🙏
How to Move a User to Platinum Group
To move a retired member, please have an organization’s administrator email admin@paratext.org and request that the retiree be moved to the Platinum Group.