Partners
Prayer Partners:
7 Current
3 Needed
Total Opportunity:
$121,494 Funded
$376,624 Needed
Demographics
- Location:
- Central African Republic
- Speakers:
- 854,000
- Start Year:
- 2009
- End Year:
- 2012
Reports to Investors
CAR LP Cluster
Video Updates
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Bokoto- Why do your people need God's Word in Bokoto? (0:27) -
Bokoto- How can we pray fot this project? (0:42) -
Bokoto- What is the biggest challenge in your work? (0:29) -
Bokoto- Describe the first time the scriptures were used. (0:34) -
Bokoto- How has God been at work in the project? (0:28) -
Mpyemo - Why do your people need God's Word in Mpyemo? (1:21) -
Mpyemo - How is the translation project progressing? (1:09) -
Mpyemo - What is the greatest challenge in your translation work? (0:35) -
Mpyemo - How can we pray for the translation project? (1:19) -
Mpyemo- How can we pray for your own needs? (1:24)
Languages participating in this cluster:
- Banda-Linda
- Ngbugu
- Bokoto
- Gbaya, SW
- Kaba
- Lutos
- Mpyemo
- Nzakara
- Yaka
Most of the people living in these language groups live in villages along the roads that pass through their areas. They work hard, providing for their families through what they grow on their small farms. Some of them also work in diamond or gold mines in the area. Although the mines offer a lucrative product, the local workers seldom reap much benefit from their labor there.
About 80% of the population considers themselves Christians, but many of them mix their Christian faith with ancestral rites. Although most of those in the Banda group attend church, use of other languages in the church has created serious misunderstandings. In one community, people believed that they could continue their old spiritual rituals alongside Christianity because of unclear teaching about Jesus not abolishing the Law.
This project will ensure the local church in each of the nine communities has the Book of Luke and the JESUS film. The success of this project may spur some or all of the language teams to continue in translation to produce the entire New Testament in potential future projects.
News from the Field
- Feb27
Central Africa Cluster
This translation project in Central Africa Republic covers nine language groups. The goal is to produce Luke, the JESUS Film and Scripture booklets in the mother tongue. Central African Republic is described in Operation World as one of the most evangelized countries in the world. Protestant mission work started in the country in the years after WWI. Currently, about 80% of the population consider themselves Christians, but many people mix their Christian faith with ancestral rites. - Dec22
Central African Republic Cluster
Though 80% of the population considers themselves Christians, many mix faith with ancestral rites. Four translation programs are in progress with another five beginning in 2011. At the end of this project, all nine languages will have Luke’s gospel and the “JESUS” film in their mother tongue. The people of this region in Central African struggle with inadequate health facilities and poor hygiene. Only 30% can read; the percentage in rural areas, like the Banda groups, is much lower.