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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.
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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!