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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):

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This last weekend I was in the city of Mwanza with my family. We were dropping off my wife’s mother at the airport, as she’d been visiting us for a few weeks. On the way back from the airport, traffic was at a standstill because one of the Tanzanian presidential candidates was driving through town. A motorbike slowly passed my window with a passenger on the back. I remember because I was trying to read the back of his shirt. A few moments after they passed my line of sight, I noticed a commotion ahead, and peered around a few cars to see that the motorbike had stopped, and the passenger had gotten off and was picking a boy up off the road. I guessed that the boy had been crossing the road, and the motorcyclist had knocked him down. No one looked seriously hurt, and the motorbike passenger carried the boy to the side of the road. But while he was doing that, a crowd quickly gathered and they took hold of the motorcyclist, dragged him to the side of the road, and started beating him. Other people ran over and joined in, including at least one mama (mother) that I could see. Continue Reading »