In Tanzanian rural towns, tribal languages are generally spoken, but not read. KiSwahili, the national language is read, but not necessarily spoken in their town. So, on Sunday, the pastor has the hard job to read the KiSwahili Bible out loud, but then translate it for the people into their spoken language. It just isn’t easy for the Bible to get into people’s ears.
At Midday we talked about the 7 Audio Bibles that we brought from the USA in the local tribal language. The news of these brought considerable excitement as pastors started to realize the potential of people hearing the Bible without the pastor reading it to them. More on these next month when the units are delivered. (http://www.asmtoday.org/)
