Source: Mission Network News, March 10, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Northwestern corner of Namibia lies the village of Opuwo. Its name means \u201cend of the road\u201d in Dhimba, the language spoken by residents of Opuwo. But for the Himba people who first heard the gospel there, Opuwo was not the end of the road. It was the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bible Society of Namibia<\/a>, Wycliffe<\/a>, and Samaritan\u2019s Purse<\/a> formed a collaboration to begin translating the Bible into the Himba people\u2019s heart language. Working with a well-known storyteller, the effort eventually produced 35 Bible stories and gospel songs which were downloaded onto MegaVoice audio units. Michael Cardy with MegaVoice <\/a>says he\u2019ll never forget the first time the pastor played Scripture for the local children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs he turned it on, and they heard the gospel story in their heart language\u2026the children were just absolutely dumbfounded. They were so excited they got up and started dancing,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The children placed a ring of stones around a tree and began regularly meeting there to hear Scripture. As the Bible stories started to impact children\u2019s lives, parents started asking questions. Next, they joined the gathering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAround that circle, eventually five villages would gather,\u201d Cardy says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full story<\/a> and listen to some of gospel songs in Dhimba<\/a>. Because the songs and Scripture are shared on solar-powered audio recorders, they can go wherever the nomadic people go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The most recent edition of Evangelical Missions Quarterly is focused on missions and the arts. Read Creating Sacred Songs in Waorani<\/a> (a language of Ecuador).<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also a story a South Asian artist<\/a> who accepted a commission to paint a story scroll using the tribal art forms of his people\u2014a process God used to draw the man to himself (International Mission Board).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Mission Network News, March 10, 2025 In the Northwestern corner of Namibia lies the village of Opuwo. Its name means \u201cend of the road\u201d in Dhimba, the language spoken by residents of Opuwo. But for the Himba people who first heard the gospel there, Opuwo was not the end of the road. It was … Continue reading Namibia: Nomadic Herdsmen Sing the Scriptures to Their People<\/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-13693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693","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=13693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13694,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693\/revisions\/13694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}