Partners
Prayer Partners:
Current partners 22
Needed partners 0
Total Opportunity:
Funded $400,088
Commitments $0
Needed $0
Demographics
- Location:
- Cameroon
- Speakers:
- 20,000
- Start Year:
- 1998
- End Year:
- 2010
- Project Goals:
- NT
Reports to Investors
News Feed
Denya NT | Denya
Video Updates
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Denya - What is being done right now on the translation? (0:16) -
Denya - Tell us about the remaining work to be done. (0:30) -
Denya - Why do the Denya need God's Word in their language? (0:45) -
Denya - How has your life changed through all this? (2:06) -
Denya - What happened during the final read through? (2:01) -
Denya - How can we pray for you now? (2:26) -
Denya - What is the most difficult thing you've had to do? (0:39)
Over 20,000 Anyang people speak a language called Denya. They live in the dense forest of Cameroon, West Africa.
The Denya speakers are isolated from one another and the outside world. There are about fifty Anyang villages connected only by paths too narrow for motorized traffic. Over the years this has prevented church and mission groups from reaching them. The few churches that do exist in the region depend upon itinerant pastors who visit only a few times each year. Many of the people, even Christians, are still tied to the traditional spirit practices and beliefs.
The Anyang people are interested and waiting for God’s Word in their own language. In 1986, Gabriel Besong became convinced that his people need the New Testament in their own language. Since then he has graduated from seminary, joined the Cameroonian Bible translation organization, and has begun translating the New Testament.
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