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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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For children who speak Burunge at home, the challenge of adding Swahili and English at school is a familiar one. One of the local pastors, now a Burunge Bible Translator, reflects on how early literacy may be one of the greatest “added benefits” to his work…
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Ships and oceans, taking soundings and running aground, Paul’s voyage in Acts can pose real challenges for Bible Translators in a land-locked culture. The Burunge team and their colleagues knew it would take excellent words and creative supports to make a complete solution…
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“I am supposed to be the exegetical adviser,” said Paul (the Burunge team’s Translation Advisor), “but they probably understand the culture and meaning of Ruth much better than me.” One issue that surfaced during a recent revision was over how to translate the term ‘redeemer’…
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The sound system began to fill the air with Burunge songs. The dedication was held on the football field which is right next to the weekly market location, so throughout the day many people passing by came over to find out what was happening. Pastor Emmanuel Doe opened the event by gathering the crowd to perform a traditional dance…
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