Bill Schmidlap (pseudonym) is a co-founder and former CEO of a pastoral training ministry in East Asia. The organization has created more than 30 pastoral training manuals and biblical teaching texts in the language of their primary training audience. This ministry embraces the conviction that writing in the original language of the users is a much more tedious process, yet it results in a product much more culturally and user friendly, while avoiding the cultural problems endemic with translations.