“We now have God’s Word in Simbiti!” cries a dancing man. “Simbiti people say Oye!” They shout it in response, as a growing crowd parades through the village. The long-awaited celebration of a completed New Testament for Tanzania’s Simbiti people has begun. “This day was not easy,” says one of the Translators, “but the people are very happy to see that now the Simbiti New Testament is in their hands…”
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“I’ve been a Christian a long time,” said one Sangu translator. “But working on this translation, it’s like being in a Bible school. It has shown me anew what life with Jesus is about.” At the big celebration of the completed Sangu New Testament another translator said, “I see the people receiving God’s Word… receiving God himself.”
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The small church roared with celebration as the first Ndali language New Testaments were opened. Songs and speeches in Ndali thrilled the crowd. “We welcome the Scriptures with two hands,” said a translator as he gestured a giant handshake. “It means a good welcome. This day will be remembered…”
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“Now God’s Word has a direct path to the hearts” of the Kinga language community of western Tanzania. Numerous Christian doctrines celebrated together publically, near a main local bus stand…
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“Truly, I feel joy, great joy,” said one Malila Translator at the celebration of the completed New Testament. “The Word of God will reach our people in the right way, and cause many to be saved and discipled. When they hear it in Swahili, sometimes they can’t understand. But now, in the language they understand, there will be great change…”
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Tanzania’s Vwanji people welcome their New Testament! Before he was a Bishop, leading the celebration of this day, Nguvila worked for years as one of the translators. Today, he is surrounded by his former colleagues, fellow church and community leaders, hundreds of Vwanji people, and the Scriptures for which they have gathered to praise God…
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Rain kept down the crowd’s numbers, but not their joy. Sheltered inside a church-within-a-church, Nyakyusa speakers used this day of singing and dancing, preaching and feasting to celebrate their newly translated Scriptures “even our children can understand!”
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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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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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