Before translation begins, surveyors and sociolinguists uncover essential information for new translators. Brian & Hannah Paris tell how one survey trip planted a desire in the hearts of people for Scripture in their language.
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Checks and Balances The air conditioner gently hummed behind me, making a valiant effort to cool the room and remove some of the 95% humidity of Madang, Papua New Guinea. I sat at one corner of a conference table, staring into my lapt…
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“Your father died?” Laynah asked as I sat with her on the bark-slat porch outside her home. Laynah had become my friend during my family’s earliest months in Papua New Guinea. Our grass-roofed hut had been right across the…
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Join our team as we work among an unreached people group in the Middle East through Bible translation, economic development, and literacy classes, all as a means to deepen relationships within the community and share of God’s love for the people among whom we serve. This internship will strengthen the translation project by helping implement […]
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God, please give wisdom and discernment to our new teams, their potential host communities, and our leadership in Papua New Guinea as they determine the language groups in which to start our next two translation projects.
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Thank you, God, for leading a family to begin serving a language community in Papua New Guinea that has been praying for your Word for decades. Thank you for sustaining this family during their first extended stay in their village home and for helping them begin forming relationships.
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