South America

Advocacy

Brazil Forum for Use of the Scriptures in Indigenous Languages

Edna Headland (2010)

"Praise God for this event where so many people from what Brazil calls the three waves of missions worked together. As one person reported, he heard expatriates, Portuguese MT Brazilians and indigenous people calling the event 'their forum'." This is…

RichardOctober 22, 2010

Advocacy

Encouraging Scripture use among the Amuesha

Martha D. Tripp (1984)

"This is what we have been looking for." As I heard these words coming from the Amuesha teacher/preacher as he taught the newly translated Scripture to his own people, I sensed this moment as a tremendous breakthrough for the Amuesha…

RichardJune 16, 2009

Literacy

A Back Transition Primer: National Language to Vernacular

Leah Walter (1986)

One of the first questions translation teams ask when determining program strategy is: Are there people who are literate or semi-literate in the national language? If so, how can we get them reading in their own language? In Columbia, where…

RichardMay 7, 2009

Bible Translation Culture Language Issues

Goal: Vernacular Scriptures in Use

A case study from the Paez of Colombia

Marianna Slocum (1987)

We have found that these three factors—the credibility factor, the comprehension factor, and the prestige factor—are all-important components in promoting the use of a newly introduced vernacular translation in a newly written language. This case history of the Paez, a…

RichardFebruary 25, 2009

Bible Translation Language Issues

Promoting vernacular Scriptures where a national language translation is venerated

David L Payne (1988)

One of the major obstacles for the acceptance of an idiomatic translation of the Scriptures into a vernacular language where there is some form of established church is that often there is a strong veneration of a translation of the…

RichardFebruary 16, 2009

Audio Drama

Drama productions for Scripture Use

Joyce Prettol (1989)

The cassette dramas were very effective and listened to repeatedly. The Ese Ejjas are a nomadic river people group of Bolivia. Joyce Prettol describes how no one was able to read Scripture with expression, as reading is a personal skill…

RichardDecember 11, 2008

South America - Scripture Engagement