In the Alagwa language community of central Tanzania, after decades of planning and preparation, translation of Scripture has finally begun. A team of sixteen Alagwa speakers are using a new method to produce their oral translation of Luke’s Gospel…
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In a “cluster project” of multiple languages, teams routinely help each other in many ways. But when fifteen translators on seven teams line up their desks to spend two weeks together in one room, it means something big is underway. They are joining forces to wrestle with Paul’s letter to the Romans. Inside the hall, it’s getting busy and loud…
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In the Kabwa language area, over forty church leaders came together for a special ministry workshop. After translators completed Scripture portions in Kabwa, the team made audio recordings, and loaded them on solar-powered audio players. Now those leaders were learning to use the players in mother-tongue Bible study…
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In a Burunge village of central Tanzania, an elderly woman recalls a time when famine forced her people to leave their homeland. She follows another major world religion but, when her young relative (who works as a Burunge Bible translator) came to visit, she gladly welcomed hearing him read to her from a portion of Scripture written in her own language…
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As the Jita translators work, they find themselves grappling with the imagery in Revelation. In English, one word can describe ‘seals’ on both scrolls and foreheads. But there is no single word in Jita which can be used that way. So the team launched into research…
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When Rangi Translator Paulo Kijuu is not working, he motorbikes from village to village selling books and showing the Rangi-dubbed JESUS film. One night, his projector’s battery was dead. Kijuu’s prayerful solution was perfect, but it came with a big risk…
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There was great excitement in the Mbugwe language community when they gathered to celebrate receiving the Scripture of Ruth and Jonah in their mother tongue. The books arrived in a large box amidst a parade of Mbugwe people singing and dancing…
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Teams in Dodoma needed help to illustrate new literacy and Scripture publications. “Two or three local artists might have got a couple days of personal training,” said one of them, “if not for an outbreak of cholera.” Instead, a maximum capacity class of fifteen illlustrators (from five area languages) traveled to “the big city” for a week…
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We know our work towards the goal is not “a battle against flesh and blood, but against the powers of darkness.” Knowing this makes the daily obstacles we face all the more a priority for prayer…
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