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Jesus is God and Man – but Not a Pumpkin!

by SIL Tanzania | Mar 2, 2022 | Bible Translation, Community Testing, Language: Rangi, New Testament, Orthography, Region: Dodoma | 0

As the Rangi people of central Tanzania work to complete the New Testament in their own language very soon, the labor of extensive “final checks” proves to hold both significant challenges and unexpected rewards. Even while the community held a read-through of the whole NT, Rangi Translators struggled to include important updates and corrections. So they trained one of their Literacy workers to help – and she quickly found something they had all missed…

Scripture in Burunge impacts community even in checking stage

by SIL Tanzania | Oct 21, 2021 | Bible Translation, Community Testing, Language: Burunge, Region: Dodoma, Scripture Engagement | 0

The Burunge translation team took their draft of Deuteronomy to a “Community Check,” a crucial and exciting regular activity for the project. It was going well, and one of the Translators had his copy with him as he walked along a road filled with people…

Scripture translation featured in Mbugwe language film

by SIL Tanzania | Sep 22, 2021 | Language: Mbugwe, Region: Dodoma, Scripture Engagement, Vernacular Media | 0

“Praise God for answers to all the prayers for the Mbugwe JESUS film!” After months of preparation and production, the Translation team have completed a version of the film in their own language, using their Mbugwe translation of Luke’s Gospel and the original film script. The Mbugwe community celebrated, of course, complete with a ‘premiere’ showing and sold-out supply of flash cards loaded with the film, Scripture text, audio and more…

Church-based youth programme hosts encore workshops for youth literacy

by SIL Tanzania | May 15, 2019 | Language: Burunge, Language: Rangi, Literacy, Region: Dodoma, Scripture Engagement | 0

Hundreds of Burunge and Rangi children, and even some of their parents, are learning to read their own language. Just months since SIL partnered with Compassion International to offer youth literacy workshops in those communities, four church-based programmes were once again filled with students eager to gain new language skills…

“Jesus and I are not just friends, we are one thing…”

by SIL Tanzania | Apr 1, 2019 | Bible Translation, Community Testing, Language: Rangi, Region: Dodoma | 0

“I’ve heard John 15:5 many times, in Swahili and English,” said Paulo Kijuu, a Rangi translator. “But the expression of ‘abiding in Jesus’ is not clear to Rangi speakers.” The team began to search for a way to make the meaning clear. “When we found it,” said Kijuu, “my eyes got teary because I could picture my own relationship with Jesus. I could feel his love…”

Youth literacy fueled by five-way partnership

by SIL Tanzania | Mar 10, 2019 | Language Development, Language: Burunge, Language: Rangi, Region: Dodoma, Scripture Engagement | 0

School children in the Burunge and Rangi language communities enjoyed literacy classes in their own language at simultaneous workshops. “It was fun to watch them follow in their new reading primers,” said a guest from funding partner Wycliffe USA. Instructors from SIL taught the lessons at an after-school program operated by Compassion International…

Mother tongue touches hearts at funeral

by SIL Tanzania | Dec 24, 2017 | Language: Mbugwe, Region: Dodoma, Scripture Engagement | 0

One of the Mbugwe translators attended a funeral in the community, and was asked to pray. Although religious activities are usually only done in Swahili, he prayed in their local language. After the ceremony he was approached three times by others who had listened…

Scripture celebration 20 years in the making

by SIL Tanzania | Aug 23, 2017 | Bible Translation, Language: Burunge, New Testament, NT Celebration, Region: Dodoma, Scripture Engagement | 0

Churches in the Burunge language community in 1997 began work together with experts to develop their language and translate Scripture. Almost exactly twenty years later, they celebrated their completed New Testament…

Jesus calms the storm: first Alagwa Scripture

by SIL Tanzania | Jan 26, 2017 | Bible Translation, Language: Alagwa, Region: Dodoma | 0

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…

“These words in my language revealed God for me.”

by SIL Tanzania | Dec 20, 2016 | Community Testing, Language: Burunge, Region: Dodoma, Scripture Engagement | 0

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…

Translator takes risk so people can see JESUS film

by SIL Tanzania | Oct 3, 2016 | Language: Rangi, Region: Dodoma, Scripture Engagement, Vernacular Media | 0

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…

First Scriptures: God Speaks Mbugwe!

by SIL Tanzania | Sep 24, 2016 | Bible Translation, Language: Mbugwe, Region: Dodoma, Scripture Engagement | 0

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…

Category: Region: Dodoma

Jesus is God and Man – but Not a Pumpkin!

Scripture in Burunge impacts community even in checking stage

Scripture translation featured in Mbugwe language film

Church-based youth programme hosts encore workshops for youth literacy

“Jesus and I are not just friends, we are one thing…”

Youth literacy fueled by five-way partnership

Mother tongue touches hearts at funeral

Scripture celebration 20 years in the making

Jesus calms the storm: first Alagwa Scripture

“These words in my language revealed God for me.”

Translator takes risk so people can see JESUS film

First Scriptures: God Speaks Mbugwe!

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