"The Bible For Everyone"
For two weeks – Monday through Friday – the workshop mess crew fed about 70 participants, about 10 facilitators, and presumably themselves. We were served 3 meals a day on schedule. The church district charged a K15 fee from each participant to cover local costs – from food to photocopying to use of solar power. The official cooks received K10 each as a very small token of appreciation, which they undoubtedly shared with others who helped them!
(About US$5 and US$3 respectively.)
This week the North Fly Bible team all returned to our respective homes after a very encouraging Old Testament workshop in partnership with the Pa-speaking Debepari district of the Evangelical Church of PNG. We’re still sorting through memories and photos, but I’ll try to start posting the best photos with their corresponding memories tomorrow.
Likely they will come out one a day in no particular order over the course of the next month :).
Tomorrow the first workshop staff and observers start arriving in Debepari for the Pa (Pare) Old Testament workshop. Bibles and other materials are packed and ready to go on Tuesday. The final lot of staff and observers should travel then on Thursday.
Looking forward to the Old Testament workshop for the Pa tribe – only six weeks away now! Pastor Togobi (photo) has reported that the tank sent out last month had been installed and is collecting rainwater.
We’re doing our best to secure all of the existing translation and literacy materials in Aekyom and Pa (Pare). A shout out to Cecily Brenton with Wycliffe Australia who has agreed to help find everything, type up whatever exists only in paper, and upgrade old digital files to current software standards. A huge job!
In 2014, with an emphasis on ECPNG’s Honinabi district, the team ran a trial Bible storytelling workshop series for pastors and other Bible teachers. The series consisted of an Old Testament workshop early in the year and then a New Testament one late in the year. It included the Kubo, Samo, and Gobasi language communities. Since then the team has been working very hard to help with follow-up there and to scale up our capacity to extend this approach to other North Fly language communities. Now we are full into the last stages of planning with ECPNG’s Debepari district, which includes the Pa (Pare) language community.
North Fly Bible 