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By Laura Roberts 2011 was the 400th anniversary of the completion of the King James Bible, the most widely read English translation ever produced. Now that 2012 has begun, I thought it would be interesting to research a little more about the history of Bible translation in my tok ples, or vernacular language, English. I [...] By Rhonda Hayward Yuwolim is my hero. He doesn’t even realize it. He is a man of incredible faith. Inspiring faith. Humbly, he considers it normal to trust God for all things, despite severe testing. A few years ago, Yuwolim’s son, Jonah, began having multiple daily seizures. We flew Yuwolim & Jonah to a large [...] By Emily Hinebauch Day in the life of Emily wearing her buyer-shipper (person who takes orders from teams living in the village, runs around town to buy items, and ships them off via plane, helicopter, boat, or car)hat. (7:30 a.m.) I had it all planned out. I was going to go into the office early [...] By Jacque Harper While in Papua New Guinea GOOD HEALTH is of major importance to each of us but especially to those of us on the older end of time. We are fortunate to have a wonderful Australian doctor just 3 blocks from our office but he is limited in his services to us by [...] Every year during this time, Pioneer Bible Translators has a special gift giving opportunity available. This year the branch in Papua New Guinea has two gift options. Laptops National translators in this isolated island nation are working to translate the Scriptures into their own mother tongues. As they work on Scripture drafting, they write [...] By Chris Urton Ede. Na mube kub kaiudi nono güre sinoyeregün. Bangar nub yanim Jisas yanübaue. Nu eregeam büreregeaga. Bangar Keriab Kekia Asaub Nono güdi yanübaweregen. Bangar Keriabüde, oyebeb Devit sibe erekokayau difereregeaga. Luk 1.31-32 Listen. You will be body heavy and you will carry one baby boy. Thus you will call his name [...] By Diane Miller The two Akukem Bible translators on the left in the above picture and the two literacy worker on the right speak the Akukem language. They and one other literacy worker recently spent some time working in our Office in Madang. The literacy workers completed shellbooks containing 20 different stories for their Elementary [...] By Norm Weatherhead In August of 2007, the Papua New Guinea Branch of Pioneer Bible Translators invited me to come over to PNG so that I could attend a six-week course to be trained to become a Bible Translation Consultant. This was very exciting for me as I had been asking God what He would [...] By Jill Riepe My day started normal enough. I got up at 5:30 am and got ready to run with the dog. However, as I was getting ready, I noticed that my new kitten, Piita (means speedy in Ap Ma), had had an accident on the bathroom rug. Well, that meant today would be a [...] By Tyler Hewitt As a temporary role assignment I am filling in for three months doing the routine Technical Services task list. Mostly the job consists of supervising and training two national men as they are the backbone of this job. Tech Services is another fancy name of ‘super maintenance man.’ Tech Services does anything [...] By Lori Witham Returning after six-months in the States, it was almost as if I was seeing this hot and humid South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea for the first time. For the first two weeks while my senses were keenly aware of the differences from life in America, I jotted down everything [...] By Lindy Pate Every language has idioms which are not understood by outsiders. Outsiders may simply find such phrases incomprehensible or slightly funny. The language of Apal is no exception. One time I overheard a conservation about bad water. Apparently, in a neighboring village there was lots of bad water on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. [...] Taking the life-transforming Word of God to the peoples of Papua New Guinea requires a diverse team working together with flexibility and resilience. We’re prayerfully asking God to grow our team by sending men and women who will facilitate Bible translation for some of the language groups you’ve just read about. We’re also seeking literacy [...] By Mike Herchenroeder The Akukem people of Papua New Guinea are a small language group nestled in the jungle not too far from the much larger Aruamu people group. They were acutely aware that Bible translation was underway for the Aruamu people. They were also aware of how very much they desired this same blessing [...] By Brian and Hannah Paris Recently we went on an SIL survey to visit a language group in West New Britain, the Anem, that does not have their own translation of the Bible. Our goal was to see if the community still spoke their language and needed a translation. Beforehand we prayed that God would [...] |
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