Partners
Prayer Partners:
14 Current
0 Needed
Total Opportunity:
$72,753 Funded
$0 Needed
Demographics
- Location:
- Southeast Asia
- Speakers:
- 20,000
- Start Year:
- 1997
- End Year:
- 2008
Reports to Investors
Paze NT
The Paze people inhabit a mountainous region of Southeast Asia that straddles two countries. Paze culture is oriented around a farming cycle in which the people practice a slash and burn form of agriculture. It is a society made up of clans with clan elders and leaders.
Christian missionaries effectively evangelized the Paze region about 80 years ago. Today approximately 95 percent of the Paze call themselves Christian. Unfortunately growth in Biblical understanding has been hampered by a lack of Scripture in their language.
The Paze translation project was initiated by a Paze speaker who had a burden to see God’s Word in his own language. This well educated man serves as the primary translator and project coordinator. The goals of the project are to translate the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament into Paze, provide basic literacy materials, do literacy program development, and develop a strategy to ensure that the Scriptures are used.
News from the Field
- Oct09
Paze of SE Asia
The Paze people inhabit a mountainous region of Southeast Asia that straddles two countries. Christian missionaries came to the Paze region about 80 years ago, and many Paze accepted Christ at that time. Today almost 95 percent of the Paze call themselves Christian and only about five percent of the people practice the traditional animistic religion. Because the political situation within the country is volatile, the homeland area is no longer accessible to foreigners. - May05
Paze of SE Asia
20,000 Paze people inhabit a mountainous region of Southeast Asia that straddles two countries. Christian missionaries came to the Paze region about 80 years ago, and many Paze accepted Christ at that time. Today almost 95 percent of the Paze call themselves Christian and only about five percent of the people practice the traditional animistic religion. Because the political situation within the country is volatile, the homeland area is no longer accessible to foreigners.