Twelve years since Scripture translation work began in the Mbugwe language community of Tanzania, hundreds of people gathered for a launch celebration of the newly published book of Acts. Leading up to the historic day, local believers witnessed powerful evidence of God’s hand in the work…
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“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…
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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…
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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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The Mbugwe language community is excited to be involved in translation and literacy work. Mofulu and Shishe are Mbugwe speakers, and have served as translators for several years. But their relatively new team faces many challenges…
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“As I watched their faces, I saw smiles,” said one of the Mbugwe team’s Translation Advisors. “The discussions that followed were lively. People were stirred by hearing God’s word in their heart language…”
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As Scripture translation work begins in the Mbugwe community, early language development work is already producing the first materials ever printed in their language…
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Like most East African languages, Mbugwe writing will use a Roman alphabet. But in the translation team’s first ‘orthography’ workshop, participants discovered their language cannot be written with just the five vowels they know from Swahili…
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One family arrived in 2008 to Tanzania from their home country, to serve the Mbugwe language community and translation team. The welcome they received left a strong and positive lasting impression…
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