South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in God Reports After years of learning the language, developing an alphabet, teaching literacy, missionary Brooks Buser and team gave the YembiYembi tribe in Papua New Guinea copies of the Bible five years ago. “It has been a long time, almost 2 000 years, that we the YembiYembi […]
Originally published in Christian Today More translations of the New Testament were completed in 2020, at the height of the pandemic, than in any other year, according to Wycliffe Associates. The Bible translation ministry said that translators completed the New Testament in 141 languages last year despite the challenges of […]
Word For The World, a ministry that trains people to translate the Bible into their own language, sent us a video and the following message: “It’s been a rough month for everyone, with COVID-19 affecting the whole world. For us, as South Africans, the lockdown measures has been tough on […]
Originally published in The Christian Post. Wycliffe Associates has released a new translation of the New Testament in a new concept-based language that deaf and blind people across the globe can begin learning in less than a week. The new notation is called SUN (Symbolic Universal Notation) and it is […]
Originally published in Mission Network News The Rendille people group of about 75 000 live off the land in northern Kenya and their animals. “They worship the earth, and the animals, and their ancestors,” World Mission’s Greg Kelley says. The nomadic Rendille people are surrounded by Muslim tribes who have […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Christian missionaries and Bible translators in Cameroon say they’re continuing to spread God’s Word to the people even as violence mounts and fears of a genocide continue to grow in the troubled African country. Efi Tembon, the executive director of Wycliffe Associates’ Cameroon Association […]
The Soweto Gospel Choir will hold a benefit concert for Bible translation in Johannesburg to help translate the Word of God into the remaining 100 languages in Southern Africa. Wycliffe SA, a Bible translation organisation, is hosting the concert at the Wanderers Club on Saturday September 2 2017 at 3pm […]
The Wycliffe Africa Alive cycle team recently handed over a cheque for R118 457.10 to Bishop Josias Mudenda, representing the Tonga bible translation team in Zimbabwe, according to a Wycliffe press release. The Africa Alive cycle team rode the Telkom 947 Cycle Challenge, November 20 2016 to raise the funds […]
It was a beautiful, sunny day on Sunday November 20 2016, as cyclists hit the road for the 20th edition of the Telkom 947 Cycle Challenge. Wycliffe, a non-profit organisation located in Edenvale, entered a team called Africa Alive, to raise funds for the Tonga Bible Translation Project in Zimbabwe. […]
20 years at the frontline of grassroots bible translation [notice]Lauren Sprout reports on a South African family’s response to God’s call to translate the bible into a language they did not know and which was not even written down — and on a ministry’s vision to make God’s word available […]