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Sunday, 30 October 2011, was Bible Day for the Mara Cluster Language Project. Kelly and I and our kids, along with fellow translators Kitende and Murondoro, drove 20kms out of town to a Kwaya village called Kihemba. There, we were given the opportunity to talk about Bible Translation, and to read some of our translation of the Gospel of Luke in the Kwaya language. I also got to preach, which was a little daunting since Continue Reading »

Romans 15:20 – It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. (NIV)

Kitende, Murondoro, and myself, on a community testing trip in a Kwaya village.

There is a certain allure to the idea of taking the Good News to places it’s never been before. Realistically, though, in our ever-shrinking world, there are few places where the news about the Messiah has never reached. In Tanzania, we are quite comfortable with the fact that we weren’t the first here – the first missionaries who came to Tanzania probably did so on a sailing ship or a horse. There has been a Swahili Bible for over a hundred years, and you can’t go far into the countryside without encountering a church. Continue Reading »

On 26 August, 2010, Mitch and I rode our motorbikes out to the town of Bukima in the Mara region of Tanzania. We met up with 2 of our Jita translators who were there testing their translation of Luke chapter 4 with people from their same language group. This video is a glimpse into the kinds of things we do, and what the countryside is like (click on the image):