Ilembo Town, Tanzania -- The Malila culture and language thrive today in this community of 70,000 speakers. That vitality adds great hope and joy to the celebration, as the Malila welcome the New Testament in their own language... 

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"Now God's Word has a direct path to the hearts" of the Kinga language community of western Tanzania. The community of numerous Christian doctrines celebrated together publically, near a main local bus stand...

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Tanzania's Vwanji people welcome their New Testament! Before he was a Bishop, leading the celebration of this day, Nguvila worked for years as one of the translators. Today, he is surrounded by his former colleagues, fellow church and community leaders, hundreds of Vwanji people, and the Scriptures for which they have gathered to praise God...

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“What if we get in trouble with God?” a translator asked. The Aringa team was testing their draft translation of the books of Joshua and Jonah in the community. While a local head teacher in one group shared her conviction that Bible study in their own language was key to growing strong in faith, at another home a man with a troubled past spoke up to answer the translator’s question...

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Hundreds of Burunge and Rangi children, and even some of their parents, are learning to read their own language. Just months since SIL partnered with Compassion International to offer youth literacy workshops in those communities, four church-based programmes were once again filled with students eager to gain new language skills...

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