Today I visited Mrs. Selam’s coffee shop again. She was planning a trip to Ethiopia and she wanted to bring some Tigrinya language Bibles with her. She wanted to test the translation out to see if it was good and to see if the people could understand it. She said that not many pastors have them over there, but they really want them. They use Bibles in other languages, like Amharic, which doesn’t really help the people who mainly speak Tigrinya. She said she needs to test these out to see if the translation matches the language that the people speak everyday. If it does, it will be great! Then she has a source (me) for more of them! I’ve never really heard about testing out Bible translations, but I can see why it would be important. People need to have God’s Word in the language they speak so that they can understand it very well.

Mrs. Selam asked us to pray for her trip and for a good chance to test out the translation. I gave her the two copies I had, and she was very thankful to be able to share them. I’m looking forward to when she returns so that I can see if the translations were good.