New Plane to Aid BT in Indonesia

A former missionary pilot, Wycliffe Associates President and CEO Bruce Smith calls Indonesia

“one of the most challenging mission fields on earth.”

This remote and rugged chain of islands in the south Pacific is among the least explored places on earth and among the hardest to travel where people speak over 700 separate languages.


To read more about the story go to: Mission Network News

Stand In The Gap

“The more you pray, the more will be revealed. You will appreciate not only the greatness of prayer, but the greatness of God.”

Joni Eareckson Tada


Through the prayer, we will see the greatness of God in the nations, we will see the glory of God revealed in the life of each people in the world.

This coming May 5th is the National Day of Prayer. Let’s all of us have some time to pray, seek God’s face, and stand in the gap between God  and the unreached people groups in the world (Ezekiel 22:30b). God is looking for people who wants to do that so that He will not destroy those nations.

Profile: The People of Badui – Indonesia

From: e-JEMMI

PROFIL BANGSA: BADUI, INDONESIA

Pendahuluan/Sejarah

Daerah perbukitan Jawa Barat sebagian besar dihuni oleh kaum Muslim suku Sunda, namun daerah yang terletak di sektor barat dihuni oleh suku Badui — suatu komunitas Sunda purba yang masih tersisa, yang menggunakan dialek Sunda kuno. Suku Badui sengaja mengisolasi diri mereka di daerah pegunungan, ketika mayoritas penduduk pulau Jawa menjadi pemeluk agama Islam. Mereka telah mempertahankan kasta sebagai sistem stratifikasi sosial yang kental. Keturunannya ditandai melalui kedua orang tua mereka, namun keluarga asalnya tidak sekuat seperti pada kalangan etnis utama suku Jawa. Bentuk atau corak desa terdiri dari lebih kurang 35 kelompok kecil, yang terdiri dari rumah-rumah penduduk yang tersebar di sekitar lahan padi gagarancah, yang digarap secara musiman dan berpindah-pindah. Terdapat tiga desa yang tetap terisolasi sama sekali dari kontak-kontak dengan suku non-Badui. Orang Badui yang mengenakan busana hitam, berbicara dengan pihak luar; namun mereka yang mengenakan sarung putih, harus tetap mempertahankan isolasi secara ketat. Pemerintah telah berupaya untuk mendidik mereka dan telah membawa suatu perubahan gaya hidup bagi mereka. Namun, sebagian besar di antara mereka menolak bantuan ini, dan sebagai akibatnya mereka tetap buta aksara dan primitif. Suku Badui memiliki reputasi sebagai orang-orang yang gemar menggunakan ilmu hitam. Banyak orang yang takut karena kemampuan mereka untuk meramalkan masa depan dan menjampi musuh-musuh mereka.

The Bucket For Our Well

 

Translation is what opens the window, to let the light in.
It breaks the shell, so that we may eat the kernel.
It pulls the curtain aside, so that we may look into the most holy place.
It removes the cover from the well, so that we may get to the water…
In fact, without a translation in the common language, most people are like the children at Jacob’s well (which was deep) without a bucket or something to draw the water with; or like the person mentioned by Isaiah who was given a sealed book and told ‘Please read thus,’ and had to answer, ‘I can not, because it is sealed.’ (Isaiah 29:11)

(Taken from Christian History Magazine, issue 100, cover page 2)

Spring 2011 Scripture Celebration

Spring 2011 Scripture Celebration

By Angela Nelson

Wycliffe celebrated twenty-eight newly translated Scriptures today at the Orlando headquarters. These Bibles came from all over the world—places like Peru, Cameroon, Ghana, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.

The celebration included special music from Latin Grammy Nominee Lucia Parker, performances from the First Baptist Orlando Rejoice Dancers, and a parade of brightly dressed people carrying flags and Bibles. One lady carried a Bible on behalf of her father, who had been praying for that people group since 1982.