Some of the Mbeya Cluster team visited Mbozi, in the Nyiha language area, to deliver 200 trial copies of the books of Jonah and Ruth. Towards the end of the day as people were getting tired we asked one participant to read chapter four from the book of Jonah.

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Last year, the Rangi translators decided to create a group on Facebook called,"We speak Rangi." Rangi people live all over Tanzania, many of them in cities like Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, and Arusha; many have access to the internet.

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We were excited to be able to host six speakers of the Bende language, as they took the very first step towards writing their language and later starting to translate the Bible into Bende. During the week that they spent with us here in Mpanda they managed to collect nearly two thousand words in their language, which will later be analyzed linguistically to come up with a writing system that is intuitive and easy for Bende speakers to read and write.

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The pastor of the Nazarene church in Italazya described how happy he was to have the Word of God in Malila. He said that the Scriptures in Malila have created a big desire in his church to read the Word of God.

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This morning, I was told by one of my colleagues that he tried to get a copy of the book of Ruth in the Safwa language, but it was sold out. "Good news," I thought, "all 100 copies that were printed in June 2011 have already been sold out."

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