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Job: Linguist/Translator - Baibai
Location: Papua New Guinea
Timescale: Starts now, full time
Interested in having a part in seeing God’s Word in the hands of people in their own language? Papua New Guinea is home to hundreds of distinct language groups. More than 160 of those groups now have the New Testament because of translators who have dedicated their lives to the task, 180 more Bible translation programs are in progress, BUT more than 300 language groups still do not have one word of Scripture in their language! Where are all these language groups? In coastal areas, remote mountain villages and outlying island settings. Will you accept the challenge to serve the people of PNG so they can benefit from God’s Word in the language of their heart? We have identified a range of approaches to tackle this mammoth task from directed programs in remote areas with very low educational levels to consultative programs in better educated urban areas and a variety of multi-language approaches. We need well trained people with a clear sense of God’s calling who will dedicate their time, their skills and their hearts to seeing the people of PNG have access to His Word. We need people who are flexible, spiritually hardy, motivated, resourceful and can work together as a cross-cultural team of PNG and expatriate co-workers to move ahead in the task of Bible translation. Could that be you? Join us in our mission to help all who hunger for God’s Word. The Baibai speakers of Sandaun Province, in far northwest Papua New Guinea, occupy three small villages. They are mostly isolated from the outside world yet they are not forgotten by God. Church services where the Scriptures are read and praise songs sung in Tok Pisin do little to reach the women and children who speak only a few words of this trade language. The hunger for God’s Word, however, is evident. In each village, churches made from simple bush materials are packed with people who repeatedly told the survey team, “We need God’s Word in our language so that we can understand it.”
This position is not salaried.
Ref: LHR39902
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