“Pray that I will proclaim this message as clearly as I should” (Colossians 4:4, NLT).
For minority people groups whose language is under threat of extinction, the work of language development can provide a number of benefits, not the least of which is a way to preserve the language. The production of dictionaries, literacy materials, and other linguistic books are an important part of this process. Praise God for the publication of a dictionary in the Lindu language of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Lindu is a language spoken by only a few thousand people.
- Pray that this accomplishment will bring great joy to the Lindu community! Pray for the successful distribution of the completed dictionaries.
- Ask God to guide the Lindu translation team as they proceed with more language development work.
I PRAISE GOD for this news!! So thankful that God gave me an opportunity to go to this village in 2006 (SEA Discovery Trip) & 2007 (SIL Indo, to do some training and multi-language education survey). Through this trip God change my heart, orientation and motivation to finish my studied at that time. Be among the people for several days was truly a blessing for me and opened my eyes for the needs of literacy projects as a means for the People to be able to read the Bible in their own language when the BT work done.
And now I AM PRAISING GOD, too because He is leading my husband and I to go back to Indonesia!
The people of Lindu are always in my heart and prayer! And will be praying for the next step of the projects.
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