Eipo of Southeast Asia
There are churches in all nine major Eipo villages. For about ten years, the Eipo Christians have been using scriptures from their close neighbors, the Ketning, who helped evangelize the Eipo community. However, the two languages only have about 60% of the vocabulary in common. This project has the initial goals of adapting the Gospel of Luke, the Book of Acts the epistles to Timothy, Titus and the Thessalonians as well as James and Jude from Ketning into Eipo. This project, while limited in scope, could be a launching pad for more extensive translation work in the future for the Eipo language.
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Pray for the translators and their families as they learn how to adapt from the Ketning.
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Nine churches are in place. Pray that they will own the project and give full support.
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The plan is to work on the initial goal now and within two years, the Eipo team could become part of a larger project with a cluster of other central Papua languages. Pray that God will lead them to this goal.