Over the past year I've been working with a lady named Beth to compile media for showing and listening to in her language area (16 different languages).
For those who don't know what the Jesus Film is (and I didn't either before coming here), it's a movie based on the book of Luke about Christ and his ministry, death and resurrection. We take that film and dub it into local languages so they aren't hearing it in English (or Hebrew). It is very powerful as people see Christ speaking in THEIR language for the first time, and often the showing of this film changes lives and opens eyes and hearts.
Please pray for Beth and seven YWAM team members as they finish showing the tokples Jesus Picture Story DVD almost every other night in 16 villages of the Aitape West Translation Project for the last 6 weeks. They are focusing this time on the two largest language groups in the project. They visited 10 communities in the Malol language area and 6 communities in the Sissano language area.
They finish their program tomorrow evening and will travel to Wewak on Monday. Please pray for safe travels by boat along the coast early in the morning before wind and waves pick up, and for them to be able to meet the plane.
Please pray for Beth. There have been some rumours preceding them regarding her skin color and the spiritual context of white-skin. I prefer not to get into specifics on a blog, but the rumors need to be squelched for her ministry to reach people and be clearly understood.
Media is powerful, let's make it about something meaningful!
