Yes, you read correctly! We were planning to leave in January 2012, but recently the Tanzania Branch asked if we would be willing to come earlier. So, now we are planning to leave PA in August of this year, dependent upon us reaching 100% of our financial goal. This means we have 5 months to finish building our prayer and financial partnerships, sell our home, pack to leave and transition out of our work positions. Lots of work in a little time! :-) We appreciate your continued prayers about this!
As we head out in August, our first stop will be one month of training, as a family, in North Carolina. Then in September, we will fly to Tanzania to start four months of Swahili training before heading to the translation center in Musoma.
Check out our March 4 prayer and update letter!
The JESUS Film
While we were at our training in Florida, we had the opportunity to visit the Campus Crusade offices and we learned about how the JESUS film is translated into other languages. We saw videos of people watching the JESUS film. It was probably the first movie they ever saw, and it was in their own language. It had a huge impact on them. We talked about how cool it would be to be able to participate in that! This week, someone asked us why the Musoma translation center translated the book of Luke first. We honestly didn't know. After researching it, we found that it was because the JESUS film is based on the book of Luke. Once Luke is translated, they can translate the JESUS film and be able to reach people for Christ earlier.
Within the last few weeks, the Musoma translation center completed the translation of the book of Luke in most of the nine languages. They are planning to start translating the JESUS film script within the next several weeks! So- hopefully we will be able to participate in taking the JESUS film to the villages around Musoma. We can't wait to see how God uses His Word and the JESUS film, in people's heart language, to transform lives in Tanzania! We will send pictures and videos as it happens!
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