Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Bible Translation Day at PIU

1781444_10202514993969638_1718783379_oOur first Bible Translation Day was held at PIU last Saturday. It was jointly sponsored by the Isles of Sea group (they work on Bible translations throughout the Pacific islands) and PIU. PIU is partnering with Isles of the Sea and1795312_10153836699420427_1444260153_o other Wycliffe groups to help reach the 2025 goal of having a translation project started for every language that does not have a Bible by the year 2025. Speakers included PIU teachers Ken Dixon and Peter Knapp (who are working on the Mokilese and Pingelapese Bible translations), Betty Amon (getting closer to finishing the Nukuroran translation and Cameron Fruit from Saipan who is working on several Carolinian translations. I learned a lot about Bible translation in our region and am even more encouraged by what God is doing in Micronesia.

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Bible Translation Day actually started a day early as Peter led us in a Bible Translation chapel on Friday

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Ken and Peter talked about translations in progress and the need for new projects

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Betty shared her personal testimony about Bible translation while Cameron talked about the technical side of translation.

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Peter and Lu Dee (left) working on stuff for a linguistics class

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