Last Wednesday night we were blessed by an unexpected visit from the ladies from Ekoftau Women’s Ministry. We were just settling down for the evening when we heard footsteps on our front veranda. These ladies blessed us no end, they brought along staple food items for our pantry. They held a small meeting, singing a cappella, sharing testimony and bible readings. We felt very humble to be blessed by these women, these ladies have little or no income. “ A little is much if God is in it”
Sunset on the beach at Lamen Island Epi.
As the sun sets on our first year as Missionaries in Vanuatu, we would like to thank all our supporters for their prayers, gifts, emails and encouragement.
We are the arrowhead, but without the shaft (our supporters ) and the bow (our home church) we would not have been able to achieve as much as we have.
God has been so good to us, placing us in a position where we are doing what comes naturally, working with children and with Royal Rangers. With our diary already filling up, we look forward with anticipation to what God has planned ahead for us in 2009.
Robyn was privileged to be invited to the final session of the SIL course at JBI to view the students work. They had spent 5 days learning the techniques of translation. The students represented 11 different language groups. 80% of those students had never written their own languages before. Their assignment was to translate the story of “The Good Samaritan” into their language and read it out. It was so good to be able to share this milestone with “our men and women”. This course was presented by workers from SIL.
According to the Lonely Planet, Vanuatu claims the highest concentration of different languages per head of population of any country in the world. There are at least 105 local languages as well as English, French and Bislama – a form of pidgin (or business) English. The number of languages spoken by ni-Vanuatu reflects their diverse origins. The fact that they have always lived in small and quite isolated communities, usually separated by physical barriers such as difficult terrain or sea.
