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Africa Angola Africa 2019 THE AFRICA 2019 AFRICA » Pray for the Lucazi committee that is planning for a dedication, that God will guide them to a venue and GHERMA*; Africa (20,000) date when many people can attend. A joyful dedication was held for the Gherma New » Pray that this new translation will spark increased Testament in July 2018 in a large city! The translation interest and use of God’s Word and that people will team is planning to translate the Old Testament next. grow in their love and knowledge of God. » Pray that the Lord will strengthen and encourage the BIBLE SOCIETY OF ANGOLA — BIBLESOCIETY-ANGOLA.ORG translation team as they begin the Old Testament work. » Ask God to transform the hearts of the people through his Word. The majority are Muslims but NYANEKA-MWILA; Angola (600,000) because of Scripture use, an underground church is The translation team visited over 28 communities last taking root. year to tell people about Nyaneka-Mwila Scriptures. In » Lift up the Christians living among the Gherma one town, a young man named Chomomutima asked people. Pray that God will give them strength to view when the Bible in Nyaneka-Mwila would arrive. He said persecution in light of James 1:2-3 (NIV): “Consider it the need for Bibles in his language is great because pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face many of his people do not understand the national trials of many kinds, because you know the testing of language. your faith produces perseverance.“ » Praise God for the fervent initiatives the team is » Intercede for new Christians who are being rejected making to create enthusiasm and acceptance for the or persecuted by their families. Thank God that he is Scriptures. with them even in hardships. Pray that he will show » The books of Genesis, Matthew, Mark and Philippians them he is their comfort and joy even when they don’t are already in people’s hands. Pray for these books to understand the circumstances. transform lives and show both the power of God and the personal relationship he offers through Jesus. » Ask the Holy Spirit to anoint the translators as they ANGOLA press forward to move each book through the steps of the translation process. Pray that the Scriptures they LUCAZI; Angola (400,000) are working on will touch their hearts and increase The original New Testament for Lucazi was published in their love and knowledge of God. Pray for good health 1935, and the whole Bible came out in 1963. The Lucazi for them and their families. community is primarily Christian, and there was need to do a new translation, beginning with the New Testament. BIBLE SOCIETY OF ANGOLA; SEED COMPANY — SEEDCOMPANY.COM » Thank the Lord for the Bible Society of Angola who has managed the project. The New Testament SONGO; Angola (50,000) manuscript has been approved, proofread and is ready The Songo translators made procedural adjustments for printing. to help them better organize and track the whole » Ask the Lord to oversee the printing process so the translation process. These changes improved the way print will be clear and the books well bound. they studied, drafted and revised the biblical text. THE FINISH LINE 2019: AFRICA 1 *name changed WYCLIFFE.ORG » Praise God, Luke and Acts have been published and » Intercede for the team as they look for funding to will be available to the Songo early this year. Ask the reprint the New Testament. May Jehovah-jireh be their Holy Spirit to use these key books to create hunger great provider. They have also started to translate the and anticipation for having the entire New Testament Old Testament. soon. » Pray that the New Testament will be a powerful tool » Lift up the translation team as they forge ahead, in the Biali churches to transform lives and help make checking the final New Testament books with a disciples. consultant. Pray for wisdom, strength and joy for each » Ask the Lord to give the local association’s leaders person. inspiration and creative ideas to involve people with » Professing Songo Christians tend to be nominal and the Scriptures. ritualistic and have little understanding of Scripture. » Thank the Lord for literacy teachers, and pray that Pray for the Bible Society of Angola and the local many Biali will learn to read their language. churches as they work together to encourage spiritual » Pray that the Biali will fall in love with God’s Word growth by using the Songo Scriptures. and with Christ. BIBLE SOCIETY OF ANGOLA; SEED COMPANY — SEEDCOMPANY.COM SIL UMBANGALA; Angola (400,000) IDAASHA; Benin (101,000) The hard work of the translation team is reaping results. After the final consultant checks of Romans and They are moving toward the finish line. Revelation were completed last year, the entire New » Lift up the group that is proofreading the New Testament was tested and read aloud in the community Testament manuscript. It takes concentration, good to make sure it was clear and sounded natural. In health and alert eyes. Pray they will find any errors addition, the translation team was trained in the use before it is sent for printing. of Paratext, software that provides translators with » Pray for a mistake-free printing process that will automated checks to evaluate the accuracy and result in quality books. consistency of a translation draft. » Ask the Holy Spirit to work in Umbangala hearts » Intercede for the team as they use Paratext this year so they will treasure God’s Word and be a people “… and typeset the New Testament. It is a detailed and whose God is the Lord” (Psalm 144:15, NLT). arduous task. They need good health and alert minds. » to provide for the expenses of BIBLE SOCIETY OF ANGOLA — BIBLESOCIETY-ANGOLA.ORG Ask Jehovah-jireh typesetting, printing, shipping and dedicating the New Testament. BENIN » Pray for community ownership of the Idaasha project as church leaders are trained in the vision of Bible AJA; Benin (910,000) translation and language development. Despite a pause in funding for the project, the Aja SEED COMPANY — SEEDCOMPANY.COM; WYCLIFFE BENIN; WYCLIFFE translation team has continued to make progress NETHERLANDS throughout the year. Several Old Testament books were drafted for the first time, and the four Gospels were prepared for publication. MONKOLÉ; Benin (25,000) » Pray for completed testing of the New Testament to The Monkolé New Testament was published in 2007, and ensure the texts are clear and sound natural. Ask God a translation committee is pressing forward to complete to grant the team wisdom as they finalize each book. the Old Testament. » Praise the Lord for the publication and distribution » Please pray for stable electricity, better internet of the book of Mark! Pray for God to soften the hearts service and for equipment to work well despite regular of the people to accept and welcome his Word. high heat. These all directly impact the team’s progress » Pray that the local Aja church association will have on the translation. new vitality after being inactive for many years. May » Ask God to enable the project’s consultant to make they join believers together in unity to raise awareness regular visits to the team and to clearly guide in of the upcoming translation. linguistic decisions impacting the translation. » Thank the Lord for good health the team and their ALLIANCE FOR THE TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE IN AJA; BIBLE families have enjoyed; pray this will continue. SOCIETY OF BENIN; SIL » Praise God, the team has recorded the New Testament, and the audio version is now available to BIALI; Benin (160,000) Monkolé speakers. Pray for great fruit as people listen Praise the Lord, a dedication for the Biali New Testament to God’s Word. was held on June 20, 2018, in the main Biali village, and all 2,000 printed books sold within a month! THE FINISH LINE 2019: AFRICA 2 WYCLIFFE.ORG » Ask the Holy Spirit to use the New Testament and BOTSWANA Old Testament books already available to impact people’s lives and that more and more Monkolé will KALANGA; Botswana (150,000) hunger and thirst for God’s Word. As the Kalanga Bible was presented in a joyous dedication on August 25, 2018, the wind picked up SIM INTERNATIONAL — SIM.ORG suddenly, and one visitor was reminded of Pentecost, when God’s Spirit blew like a mighty wind. The apostles NATENI; Benin (66,000) then spoke in the languages of the people present. On Rejoice — the Nateni people now have the New dedication day, the Kalanga people were reminded that Testament in their language! The dedication was held in God speaks Kalanga, too! June 2018 in the main Nateni town, and about 700 books » Praise God for his hand on those who persevered sold within a month! for over 30 years in this project. Many obstacles » Ask God to speak through his Word and transform interrupted progress, including some who did not think the lives of all Nateni who come in contact with it. the translation was needed. But attitudes changed, » Pray that the people will love God’s Word and and the whole country takes pride now in the Kalanga more will become interested in training to help Old Bible, the first full Bible to be dedicated in Botswana. Testament translation work. » Thank the Lord for wide support. The keynote » Pray for the local leaders to be inspired and speaker at the dedication was the chairperson of the creatively reach out to engage people with the Botswana National Assembly. She, along with other Scriptures. Ask God to raise up others to be trained in dignitaries, showed their support for the Kalanga Scripture engagement.
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