Tanzania Update

We are 18 days out from our departure.  I wish we were more
prepared at this point but we are not.  We are still going to be leading youth VBS for Seconded* youth in Dar-es-Salaam.  There will be families from Tanzania, Uganda (pronounced ooo-ganda), and Kenya.

I wanted to share with you the information we have for the groups to whom we will be sharing strategies for studying the Bible.  Josh Chance, Wycliffe Bible Translations coordinator in Tanzania, sent us information on the three groups.  We will have three days with each group and will teach the women and men separately.  It is not required but we (Lynne, Larry, Josh, and locals) feel the women will be more open to listening, talking and learning if the teaching is separate.  Lynne and I are trying to write scripts to provide the translators ahead of time so that they can work on any vocabulary problems.  Here are the groups and the books of the bible they have:

Burunge (boo  rung ee)  They have the entire New Testament, plus Ruth, Genesis, and Exodus)

Rangi (rahn-gee)  They have New Testament books of Luke, Mark, 1-3 John, Philippians, Colossians, Acts, Revelation, and OT books of Ruth, Jonah, and Genesis.

Mbugwe (em boog way)  They have Mark, Ruth, Jonah, and possibly Luke (by July).

We will be teaching some basic Bible study outlines and some basic inductive Bible study.

If you would like to say in touch or send us some words of encouragement, we will be using the mobile phone app WhatsApp! to text and make phone calls when we have WiFi.  E-mail Lynne (ninasl@charter.net) or me (larryinas@gmail.com) or FB Messenger us and we will give you our phone numbers if you don't have them.  They work great with WhatsApp!

We are humbled to have the privilege to share how to study the Bible with these folks.  Josh told us the villagers are overwhelmed that someone would travel this far to teach them to study the Bible.  Lynne and I know that we are investing in families and generations through our efforts. We covet and appreciate your prayers.  More to follow!

*Seconded families are families of translators that are loaned out by Wycliffe to other organizations to help with translations.



  

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