Post by M. Hawbaker on Nov 7, 2018 22:23:36 GMT
There was a party going on, but the Keliko people of South Sudan were only interested in one thing: finally reading the Bible in their own language.
In late August, the Wycliffe Bible Translators completed their 1,000th translation of the New Testament, this time for a small refugee tribe based in South Sudan.
In late August, the Wycliffe Bible Translators completed their 1,000th translation of the New Testament, this time for a small refugee tribe based in South Sudan.
“When they get the [New Testament], they kind of ignore the celebration for a while because the first thing they do is they sit down somewhere, open it up, and start reading it for themselves,” Russ Hersman, chief operating officer for Wycliffe, told Faithwire.
