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Aruamu Bible 100% Drafted!
Dear family and friends,
It is very encouraging to our Aruamu Translation Team (Papua New Guinea) to celebrate milestones along the way toward the completion of the full Bible in the Aruamu language. We are thrilled to let you know that the Aruamu Old Testament is now 100% drafted, as of this last month. Many books are entirely through the translation process, and many others are in various stages of work.
Our comprehension checking team has just completed the naturalness and clarity checks of Ezekiel and Amos, in preparation for the final consultant check coming up in October. One of our team members has completed the drafting of all the footnotes for 1 and 2 Kings and 1 and 2 Chronicles. These will be typed over this next month.
With assistance from Bobby Joe Wrenn, Norm Weatherhead and Nathan Miles, the Aruamu project has been successfully migrated from Paratext 7.5 to Paratext 8, the state-of-the-art Bible Translation software, for which we are extremely grateful.
Bobby Joe and Sue Ellen Wrenn are working with Aruamu folks in Tiap village to record some Old Testament books. Ruth is completed. They are working on the book of Daniel right now. Faith Bible College students and faculty participated in an outreach weekend in Rughasak village, where a brand new church is being established.
You can have a look at the chart below to see the translation progress so far this year. (All the Old Testament books are listed, left to right in the chart. The solid blue lines show what was completed prior to 2017; broken lines show work during January to August 2017. The first stage of our translatiion process is the drafting; second is the exegetical check; third is the comprehension check; fourth is the consultant check.)
Thank you SO much for partnering with us to enable this to happen! God is doing this!
Love in Christ,
Marsha Relyea Miles
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