Saturday: Translations Completed

Saturday afternoon Bonheur showed up at my door with a huge smile on his face and his external hard drive in hand: "I finished", he said. Wow, what an accomplishment. In just 12 days of translation he not only translated 18 sessions of Kinyarwanda (Rwanda language), but also completed the remaining 6 sessions from the French translation he had started in December. That was truly amazing. God allowed the work to go so smoothly this time. He was able to stay in one of the two rooms in the little stone building set apart from the main building of the center and it afforded him ideal conditions for translating.

Here's a picture of Bonheur in his Sunday best with the small stone building he stayed in and worked at for the past two weeks.

Here's a picture of Bonheur handing in the last of his translation work.

Dan, from Nigeria, came to my room about an hour after Bonheur. He too had just finished with his translation work of Hausa. He was very animated and excited over his accomplishment. A job well done. Now we have the third language completed here at Subiaco and the fourth overall when we include Amharic (Ethiopia) that was used at the conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopian in May 2014 when Scott Gilchrist taught through the book of Romans.

Just before dinner, Wakshuma showed up with his external hard drive and his completed Oromo translation. Now Ethiopia will have two languages to load on the mp3 players for pastors in their country. I have learned from Wakshuma that very few pastors are able to understand English, let alone listen to teachings on Romans and other books of the Bible. Wakshuma told us at dinner that he had loaned his mp3 player to two different pastors to listen to some of the sermons and they returned it the following day saying that they were unable to benefit from them because of only being in English. Now we will be able to put into the hands of these pastors not only Amharic translations of teachings from Romans but also Oromo translations. This will serve to catapult the effectiveness of the Romans Project throughout the country. Now, more and more pastors will want to accept the Romans Project challenge of reading Romans 20 times and writing it out once because they will receive an mp3 player with 18 sessions from the book of Romans in their own languages.

Here's one picture of all of us together one last time before Bonheur and Wakshuma depart. They are leaving early since their translation work is complete and Dan will be staying until Sunday which was the original time we had set.