MICHEALS’ MEMOIRS Winter 2014 Update
Dear Friends and Family, In our last newsletter we shared with you stories and photos of our trip to Papua New Guinea with seven young people. Now we are asking that you continue to pray for each person who went on the trip with us that the Lord would show them how they might be involved in our work in some way. So, please pray for the trip participants Bonnie, Katie, Jonathan, Taylor, Lexi, Leah and Brianna! In that newsletter we told you about the recordings our GET Global team did of some of the Tairora Scriptures and a number of Tairora Christian hymns written by the Tairora people. We want to update you about how those recordings are being distributed to the Tairora people. The efforts bore fruit much quicker than we anticipated.
The Tairora Bible and AudiBible (Photo Courtesy of Brandy Ingle)
Tairora Men with the Tairora AudiBible (Photo Courtesy of Ivan Dishman)
The Tairora AudiBible Dedication at Ukarumpa (Photo Courtesy of Lindsey Alexander)
The recordings we did in Tairora took place in June of this year. On September 4 there was a dedication of the Tairora AudiBible which included the recordings we did! It was a blessing to hear about all the people who gathered at Ukarumpa from all over the Tairora language area along with many people from SIL.
A sea of faces filled the Ukarumpa Training Center (where our GET Global team stayed), hearing about the Bible translation work that Alex and Lois Vincent and their Tairora friends have done since 1958. They also heard about how cooperation across the Tairora area enabled the AudiBible recordings to happen during the last year. Church leaders from several of the main denominations expressed their support, and thanks for God's Word in Tairora, both in print and audio versions.