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Slowly Does It

I love this quote from a missionary in Papua:

Within the missionary world, a lot of people talk about how Bible translation takes too long and isn’t best bang for your buck. Well, if speed is what you want, that’s true. It’s not fast. I do love that it gives great value to the indigenous culture and to the Word of God, and that this way when the missionaries leave, the local church can preach and teach from their own language. I love that it requires years of investment into a culture, years in which translators (at least the ones I knew) also started community development and agricultural and health programs.

The whole post has lots of great photographs from a New Testament dedication ceremony which are well worth seeing.

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