Mum Matthew Dedication

Without an advisor, the Mum translation team worked on the Book of Matthew for 6 years, making progress whenever a missionary had some time to spare. Now that I am serving as the advisor to the Mum, translation progress is much faster. This event, the Matthew Dedication, was a magnificent climactic celebration where long hard years of work not only came to fruition, but that kind of trudging, plodding pace is now over, and furthermore, the entire community gathered together to celebrate, re-engaging in this project that had long since fallen out of thought. Not only is Matthew here, but Acts is on the horizon!

Celebrate with us. Rejoice with us!

But this work isn't over yet. It's only just beginning.

And now is an excellent time to engage in this work to help bring Acts to the Mum!

With 4,000 people in the language group, an attendance of 1,000+ was very impressive

This had been the first time in a long time there was a celebration that warranted pulling out the traditional singsings

The translators escorted the Book of Matthew to the grand stand.

We gave copies of the audio recording of Matthew to anyone with an SD card, though some of them were full.
"I deleted porn and replaced it with Scripture. In the jungle. Holding a crocodile." -an intern

Some people need reading glasses in order to read. We made sure that need was met.

Each community gave gifts of thanks to The Rising church, who fully funded the dedication 

Literacy material was also available for those who were inspired to learn to read.

See more photos here.


The stages of translation that took Matthew 5 years to complete, took Acts 1 year. Now, funding is delaying us. Help us finish the translation process, so that Acts too can be in the hands of the Mum!
You can give here!