Praise the Lord for six completed New Testaments!
Our colleagues in southern Tanzania recently celebrated the launch of six completed New Testaments. We thank God that the Nyakyusa, Vwanji, Sangu, Ndali, Kinga, and Malila people now have access to God's Word in their heart language.
The dedication events were celebrated with lots of joyful singing and dancing...
...pastors thanking God for the arrival of his Word...
...men and women holding God's Word in their own hands for the very first time ever...
...and of course, lots of food...
We rejoice in the hope that future generations will grow up reading God's Word and believing in Jesus.
Here's what people said about the celebrations:
"It was so good to see people from every denomination coming together to celebrate God's Word."
"I see people receiving the Word of God and receiving God himself."
Please keep praying for Ben and the Jita translators. They hope to print the New Testament in Jita in the next couple of years.
{photos by Steve Pence, Katherine O'Donnell, and Mark Woodward}
