Read About The Papua New Guinea Mission Trip (Click the above link to open another web site that includes a lot of pictures) Also... See some pictures taken by Doug McNash

A 9/14/2007 Message From Martha Wade...

Progress on the building is very slow right now, but that is mainly because it is the time of year when they are clearing new garden sites and doing a lot of intensive fishing. Lord willing it will be done by the time of the planned dedication on 1 January 2008. Below is another translation story from the checking of the Akukem translation of Acts.

"Where was the crippled man sitting when he begged?" I asked the translation checkers. They correctly answered that he was sitting by a door, i.e., a gate, and so I asked one more question, "What was it a door to?" Unfortunately the answer to that question was incorrect, though it was a literal translation of what one finds in many English translations in Acts 3.10, "they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful ." (NIV). In the NT the word temple is used to refer to the entire temple complex and this particular gate/door was the means of entering into the temple courtyard. Unfortunately in the rough draft the crippled man was sitting by the door of the temple itself and begging for money from people going in and out of the temple itself. Historically, we know that this would be inaccurate. Thankfully correcting this was just a matter of adding a few words to clarify the fact that the door was in the "fence/wall" that was around God's house/temple rather than the wall of the actual house/temple.

Thank you for your prayers for me as I check translations like the Akukem (above) and the Apal translation here at Angguna. Pray that we can catch all the little details that might be wrong or misleading so that God's Word can be accurate in the vernacular.

In Christ,

Martha Wade
Pioneer Bible Translators
Box 997 Madang 511
Papua New Guinea
Email: mlwade@pioneerbible.org.pg