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Following my Asia trip last May, God has blessed us with 3 projects from Malaysia (easyMalay from Kuala Lumpur, Kelabit and Dusun from Borneo) as well as Brao from Cambodia. These are all just starting and need much prayer. Please pray for His grace as i seek His wishes for May 2010. I need to book tickets soon. We shall post to several contacts (please send us your full postal addresses) to get comments and feedback. Also please now look at http://sites.google.com/site/easyshonabibles/ from Zimbabwe – one of the ‘easy’ sites now getting ready to show to the world. We rejoice in posting the booklets – which will contain no references to Western missions. Soon the owners of each site will decide whether or not they wish to link to www.easyBibles.com or even mention us on the covers of their booklets. BUILDING EMPIRES SHOULD BELONG IN THE PAST!! It’s been a wonderful month – with new languages Kelabit in Borneo, Malaysia and Brao in Cambodia getting their first Scriptures ever; Cefni Computers in Anglesey, Wales giving us free printing; the first posting of veryeasy booklets for the poor – in Swahili, French, Oromo, Amharic, Shona….. At last we’re really helping poor people not just talking about them. We’re investigating copyright-free clip-art and better stapling to improve the product. Today we’ve posted our first booklets – veryeasySwahili for two places in Tanzania. When we get the postal addresses more booklets in French, Swahili, Oromo, Chichewa and Shona will follow. Soon we’ll be privileged to post Brao to Cambodia and Kelabit to Borneo…. From Carole in US : ‘I just received the Braille Christmas Story (yesterday). To my untrained eye it looks great. I’m anxious to see Tun Min’s response. He doesn’t know it’s coming! I’ll let you know.’ From Cleto of Zimbabwe ‘I found this email encouraging for easyShona Bible translations. I referred them to check www.easyBibles.com . Their forwarded message is below :
From: xxx Date: Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:56 PM Subject: Greetings In His Name To: wofeministries@gmail.com Just wanted to make contact with you or those that are responsible for the “Wofeministries” web site. I was thrilled to see parts of the Bible in Shona. My wife and I are missionaries, serving in Mozambique for the past 10 yrs. We are studying Chishona (Shona), with the intention of ministering in the local language. We also speak Portuguese. My name is xxxx
Presently we are on home assignment in the USA, but will be returning to Moz, in zzzz.
I want to thank you and the team for making your website available and the use of Shona electronically. Having this access will be a tool for us in our ministry. Please lets stay in touch. We have some very dear friends in yyyy etc.
God blessings upon you all and do have a wonderful New Year in the provision and blessings of our soon coming Lord and King, Ishe Jesu.
In His Service,
xxxx
After it’s checked we shall be typesetting, printing and posting hundreds of copies of Luke’s Gospel in easyKelabit to Bario, Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia. This is our second involvement with encouraging a totally new language. But the work and copyright belong to the teams doing the real work and to their churches and nations. God is good -ALL THE TIME! EasyBrao is arriving from Cambodia. These are the first Scriptures in this language. Our new printers, Cefni Computers have started with 50 copies of booklets in each of ‘veryeasy’ Swahili from Tanzania and ‘veryeasy’ French for Africa from Burundi. We shall post them to different people for field-testing and feedback before a second larger printing. Tomorrow we move on to Amharic and Oromo from Ethiopia then Yao from Mozambique, Chichewa from Malawi and Kirundi from Burundi….. We have wonderful typesetting help from a friend in Wycliife Associates UK. We only seek to kick-start different languages but the national churches must then accept ownership of this work. Taking the gospel to the poor and marginalised is PART OF THEIR CALLING. Matthew 28: 18-20 We will always start with the ‘veryeasy’ levels to reach more poor people. Then, when we are established in a language, we shall do ‘easy’ gospels too. As i have now been accepted as a delegate for Tokyo 2010 in May and as veryeasyChinese and Street Chinese are doing well i expect to visit Shanghai again – on the way to Japan. Praise God for many doors opening. |
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