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The Message of the Bible to those who cannot read    
                                                                              by Dalene Joubert
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A visit to Megavoice

Richard Verreynne, Philip Jannasch and I visited the Megavoice offices in Pretoria recently to see how GRN materials and content form part of their every day life and ministry.
Here Johan shows us the on-hand stock of GRN picture books which come in mainly 3 different sizes: A3 (flip charts), A5 (booklet) and A7 (pocket book).


Megavoice just printed a new batch of picture books. Johan shows us the quality of the printing.



BELOW Johan demonstrates a water-tight bag enabling an audio Bible player to survive a wet trip on a canoe, in your backpack, even when you dive under water! If the adventure takes you on a dug out canoe on the Zambezi on an outreach, or on a private holiday adventure, you can still carry your audio Bible – and a few extras to leave behind for others to use.





GRN materials and audio Bibles may be ordered from Megavoice at orders@megavoice.co.za.

Phone: +27 (0)12 933 0614 or +27 (0)82 653 4783

Street Address: 645 Rudolf Street, Constantia Park, 0181, Gauteng

GPS Coordinates: S 25" 48.790' E 28" 16.698'
http://bit.ly/MVZA_Map_Google. (on the premises of the Constantia Park Baptist Church)

Postal address: PO Box 1293, Wingate Park, 0153

Office hours: Monday to Friday 09h00 to 16h00
 

Need for field people – 1 new trainee

After much prayer and sharing with prayer partners at various occasions per correspondence and at missions conferences, Joel Juedes showed much interest in the work of GRN.
Several months later we decided to send Joel to Malawi for field orientation so that he can see how our evangelism sets are being deployed and utilized.

From June till early August Joel spent time with Dallion Chitekwere from Fishers, Trainers and Senders in Malawi. FTS handles all our distribution in the country. They traveled together to different areas within the country. Joel experienced why and how certain distribution strategies are used so that the use of our materials can have a lasting impact.



After spending another week in Johannesburg, learning about the mp3 playback devices, Joel has now arrived in Cape Town to learn more about field recording.

Please pray for Joel as he has to decide with the next weeks and months where and in what capacity he wants to serve.

We are currently in need of at least one more younger person who is able to travel long distances frequently, who can help with field recording work.

Please carry the ministry in your prayers re this matter.
 

New distribution agreement

We recently signed a new distribution agreement with Kivah.

You can now order GRN content and picture materials directly from them, if you choose the AudiBible mp3 player as an outreach tool.
E-mail info@kivah.co.za
and cc Brigitte@microtronix.co.za.
Brigitte helps to process the orders and manages the customer accounts.

Our new trainee, Joel Juedes, spent a weekwith Kivah last week learning how to load the AudiBible player. He also learned how the software works. He practiced loading and testing 500 players for particular order. He also visited the factory where these mp3 players are manufactured and assembled.

We are thankful for this new opportunity.
 

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My recent  trip to Namibia

During June this year I visited Namibia to train Hendrik van Zyl from Degnos Bible School on how to record the Scriptures they've been translating orally. Yes, you understood correctly. This is about Scriptures being translated orally. Hendrik is responsible for one of the four San language clusters that spread over Botswana and Namibia. He is responsible for the translation and recording of the Bible in three Namibian languages: Ju/'hoan, !Kung, Mangetti Dune (sometimes spelled !Xun, Mangetti Dune) and Hai//om.
I've been investigating different ways to come up with quality recordings that meet the necessary requirements to ensure safe long term storage and ongoing processing.

I equipped Hendrik with a better microphone, a USB Pre 2 audio interface (pre amplifier) and a set of good quality headphones.

I showed him all the correct settings on his computer and the ideal levels to record at (between -20 and -12 decibels on the VU meter of the preamp).

We first listened back to all the records he had done so far – with his own equipment. We then decided that everything had to be re-recorded. We completed final recordings of Genesis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11 and 22. These chapters have been consultant-checked already. I've completed the editing and programming on these chapters too and the first two chapters have been uploaded on our 5fish.mobi platform for free downloading. Our feedback so far has been very good and I'm currently uploading all the finished chapters.

We recorded several Scripture portions from the New Testament, but I'm waiting for the rest of the respective chapters before uploading onto the platform. We also recorded GRN's Good News audiovisual program in Ju/'hoan. This recording still have to be consultant-checked.

We also managed to record four chapters of Genesis in !Kung, Mangetti Dune. I'm about to start editing these soon, but I sent Genesis 1 back to the field for another field check.

 
ABOVE: Hendrik van Zyl from Degnos in Namibia checking the correctness of an orally translated Scripture portion. He uses at least two translations in Afrikaans, the 2nd language of the !Kung people. Hendrik has the para text loaded on his laptop necessary for more accurate checking. A translation consultant will do a back translation with the speakers to check what's been recorded again.

ABOVE RIGHT: Recordings the !Kung, Mangetti Dune language. One mother tongue speaker also follows one of the source scripts used to translate from.

 
ABOVE: Mother tongue speaker Gerrie in front of the AKG C535 EB condenser microphone, designed to record speech. This mic responds well to most types of voices.                              

ABOVE: In the foreground the USBPre2 audio interface. It enhances the audio before it is captured by the recording software. Hendrik uses Audacity. An even better device to use these days, is the Mixpre-3 – cheaper and more versatile.

Hendrik hopes to continue the rest of the recording work he's responsible for. He will do the rough cut-and-paste editing himself. Then he will send me his recordings per email. I'll edit and process everything before uploading the audio for download in the field.

These small translation teams persevere under very difficult circumstances and they need our prayers and spiritual covering on a daily basis.

The very first Ju/'hoan Biblce content can already be downloaded from http://5fish.mobi/na/11202?language=Ju'hoan.

Remember, you can download the Message of the Bible in the language of your choice by clicking here using your smartphone.

 
Partnering with Waymakers Ministries in Chavuma

John and Leslie Leach have a holistic vision for Western Zambia:

  • Training and equipping key people to teach God's Word to their fellow Luvale-speaking neighbours,
  • Training and equipping women to better care for their children, since child neglect, premature deaths and malnutrition is part of everyday life,
  • starting an orphanage for the children who are not naturally adopted and cared for by close relatives or people in the community.
Johan and Leslie started to impact the communities with God's Word by training local people to take God's Word to the remotest areas between the Lungwebungu and Zambezi rivers.

They've been using GRN's audiovisual programs extensively. They also had our new, revised scripts re-translated. These were done in writing, but now have to be printed, edited and proofread. In the mean time they continue using the older version in Luvale.
 
A solid and basic understanding of the whole Bible story is very important before one can proceed to more detailed and deeper teaching of Scriptures. Johan says people first have to understand where they come from. Thus, starting with the correct Creation story is of the utmost importance. One works chronologically through the events of the Bible with the small listening groups. It sometimes takes a while before one comes to the story of the cross, but the background and events leading up to the story of the cross prepare peoples' hearts to accept Jesus as their Saviour.
 
We are thankful for this wonderful partnership and together we're trusting the Lord for many souls to come over to the Kingdom of Light through this work.
 


In Hungary on furlough


Riaan and Emese have been assigned to 3 months of furlough in Hungary, where they're spending time with supporters, friends, family, visit churches to share about the work they're involved in.

Riaan is surprised how well GRN materials are received there. On the above picture GRN material was listened to on Riaan's laptop during a Baptist event one weekend where he and Emese put up a display.

On the photo below the children listen to what the Naro language of Botswana sounds like. Riaan also pre-loaded the Good News audiovisual program on a Kulumi Mini player. They could also listen to the Hungarian New Testament on Megavoice's Envoy player. Riaan said afterwards, "Some of them wouldn't stop listening."


Pray for the Ferreiras as they make the work of GRN known while on home assignment. They hope to return to SA early November where they'll continue with GRN work on a part time basis.
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