Subject: Happy New Year! Announcing the Decade of Roma Bible translation, 2015-2025
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Announcing the Decade of Roma Bible Translation: 2015-2025
Happy New Year! The beginning of 2015 marks a very joyous and
challenging time for us.
The Roma (Gypsies) remain the largest and most
despised minority in Europe. They have been hated and marginalized for
decades. Yet we firmly believe that God loves them dearly and that He is
for them, not against them. We have launched the Roma Bible Society
(www.romabiblesociety.org) with a special mandate to do all that we can
to bring the Scriptures to the Roma of Europe and western Eurasia in
their heart language. With the Roma numbering 12-16 million and speaking
over 80 different dialects, Bible translation for the Roma presents a
daunting challenge.
We are researching the current needs for translation
and have identified four dialects in our area (Hungary, Serbia and
Croatia) where translation is needed. Please pray for $50,000 needed for
the first stages of Bible translation in these four dialects. We are crying out to God to make this decade (2015-2025) a special
breakthrough in Roma Bible translation. In line with the goal shared by
others to see Bible translation begun in every language in the world
which still needs it by the year 2025, we are asking God to bring this
about for the Roma. Join us in giving, going and praying that Bible
translation will begin in this decade (2015-2025) for every Roma dialect
which still needs it.
Our vision: To see God’s Word in the heart language of every Roma/Gypsy in Europe and western Eurasia.