Third World life

TRIBE WAITED 2000 YEARS FOR THEIR OWN BIBLE

(December 15, 2022) Michael Ashcraft shares another missionary enterprise.

After years of learning the language, developing an alphabet, teaching literacy, missionary Brooks Buser and team gave the YembiYembi tribe in Papua New Guinea copies of the Bible five years ago.

‘It has been a long time, almost 2,000 years, that the YembiYembi church have waited for this translation of the Bible into our own language,’ says a tribe leader on a Radius International video.

Welcoming their own Bible
Waving palm-like branches (or feathers) and dancing, about 100 tribe members received the printed and bound Bibles – the labour of nine years delivered by small prop plane – with fanfare, preaching and jubilation.

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