Source: Wycliffe Bible Translators, July 7, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have to do this,\u201d Bishop Leidimo Edoni said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was referring to sailing in a small, marginally seaworthy boat through choppy, pirate-occupied waters in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. The trip would take five hours, and danger lurked everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So why was the bishop making such an arduous trip to begin with? The answer was simple: God moved Bishop Edoni of the United Church in Papua New Guinea to see transformation happen among all communities in Milne Bay. Bishop Edoni sought a partnership with another bishop at the opposite end of the island. Unity meant that two of the most prominent church groups in the province, representing thousands of people, would be brought together\u2014all in the name of Bible translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The shared desire for and commitment to translation was a promise of eubone<\/em>, which means \u201cunity\u201d in the Dobu language. Together, these two bishops promised to lead the work of bringing the Bible to their people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full story<\/a> and also read God Is on the Move: Encountering Jesus Through His Word<\/a> with reports from Fiji, Azerbaijan, and the Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also these two interesting articles: Researchers Use AI to Help Translate Bible Into Very Rare Languages<\/a> (Christian Today) and AI Begins Symbiotic Relationship With Bible Translation<\/a> (Mission Network News).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Wycliffe Bible Translators, July 7, 2023 \u201cI have to do this,\u201d Bishop Leidimo Edoni said. He was referring to sailing in a small, marginally seaworthy boat through choppy, pirate-occupied waters in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. The trip would take five hours, and danger lurked everywhere. So why was the bishop … Continue reading Papua New Guinea: Unity Between Churches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12207,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions\/12207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}