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Mayogo of DRC
100,000 Mayogo speakers live in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). The Mayogo society is patriarchal and characterized by subsistence farming. About 90% of Mayogo are nominally Christian, with about 60% Catholic. The remaining 10% are animistic and practice African traditional religion. In recent years, sects have begun to appear. The team of Congolese project workers has shown considerable commitment to the translation and literacy task even during the hardships of war. When the expatriate translators were evacuated because of the civil war, the Mayogo translators continued to translate the Gospel of Luke and traveled hundreds of miles to Uganda in order to have their translated work checked by an experienced consultant. The book of Luke has been published.
- Pray that the Lord will give the team wisdom to translate complex figures of speech and knotty theological argumentation in 2 Corinthians, Philippians and Jude.
- While one translator was away at the literacy training course, his wife suffered a miscarriage. Pray for complete physical and emotional healing.
- Pray for the welfare of all Mayogo team members and their families. The wife of a literacy worker, who has been ill for many months, is now showing signs of improvement.