Translation, Training and the Lake

Musoma is located in the blue circle, on the coast of Lake Victoria

One of the great privileges Craig has had while in Tanzania has been traveling to the SIL cluster projects throughout Tanzania. Cluster projects are where language specialists focus on multiple languages for development and translation at the same time. Last week, Craig traveled to Musoma, which is the site of our Mara Cluster Project. Mara is located in the Northwest of Tanzania near Lake Victoria- the largest lake in Africa and second largest lake in the world.

SIL is working on language development in nine languages in this cluster. All of the language staff

work together in one building—and work on all these languages at the same time! What is more

amazing is the partnership God raised up through the churches in the Mara region to support the

work of language development and translation of God’s word. If we mentioned Mennonite,

Lutheran, African Inland Church, Methodist, Baptist, Assemblies of God, Free Pentecostal, Calvary

and Moravian Church you might ask how you got all of them in the same room.  J  (Amazingly,

there are also another 29 partners on top of those mentioned.)  Thankfully, the hunger for God’s

word in their own language has brought them all together.   

Craig was honored to participate in the National Orientation Program, which is the training for our

Tanzanian staff.  The course lasted over two weeks and covered team building as well as a broad

range of other  topics. You can watch highlights of the training by clicking here.

http://vimeo.com/41125375

Craig was also able spend some time exploring Lake Victoria and God’s creation.  As Craig climbed

the rocks overlooking the lake, he pondered the challenge of reaching over 1900 languages by the

year 2025 with God’s word…but thankfully, we know that the God who created Lake Victoria can do

anything!