Partners
Prayer Partners:
11 Current
0 Needed
Total Opportunity:
$91,091 Funded
$38,609 Needed
Demographics
- Location:
- Timor
- Speakers:
- 20,000
- Start Year:
- 2006
- End Year:
- 2015
Reports to Investors
Lole NT
The Lole people live near the middle of the island of Rote in Indonesia, a country that has been troubled by political and religious unrest for the last several years. European traders introduced Christianity to the island in the 1700s, but the Lole people still do not have God’s Word in their own language. Pastors use the Indonesian-language Bible in church services, but without understandable Scriptures, professing Christians lack the foundational truths that lead to practical applications for Christian living.
After seeing the translation work progressing in Kupang Malay, a creole language used widely in the region, members of the Lole community initiated their own translation effort. In 2001, they mailed a typed draft of Mark’s Gospel to the Timor translation office in Darwin, Australia, and requested assistance in publishing the manuscript.
Over the last three years, minimal funding from The Seed Company’s Timor Initiative Program has helped provide some basic training and travel expenses for the translators. This highly motivated team has produced a translation of excellent quality. They have completed the Gospel of Mark, and the Lole community launched this first book of Scripture with great fanfare in December 2004. The translators are now trained and ready to move ahead with a full translation project, and the community is requesting additional financial and technical assistance.
News from the Field
- Mar28
Daily Prayer: the Lole-speaking people of Timor
20,000 people so eager for God’s Word that they drafted the Gospel of Mark on their own initiative. They live near the middle of the island of Rote in Indonesia, a country that has been troubled by political and religious unrest for the last several years. The highly motivated translation team has produced a translation of excellent quality. They have completed the Gospel of Mark, and the Lole community launched this first book of Scripture with great fanfare in December 2004. - Dec14
Daily Prayer: Sad News from the Lole Project
Pray with us for the Lole team coordinator, Albert, who experienced a loss in the family.