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T H E

I;?

N e w s l e t t e r

o f

t h e P i o n e e r

B i b l e

T r a n s l a t o r s

V O L . 1

J ANUARY- MARCH, 1 9 7 6

W H Y

T H E

P I O N E E R B I B L E

T R A N S L A T O R S

Not long ago, a stone-age

tribe,

t he T as ad ay ,

w as di s

c o v e r e d In

t h e

h e a r t o f M i n -

dlnao, a major

Island

of

th e

Philippines.

This long

lost

tribe fast caught t he i ma gi na

tion of a nt hropol ogi s t an d

layman a li ke , fo r

t h e s e

tribal

p e o p le

offered

to

t he o u ts id e

world a glimpse Into what life

m u s t

h a v e b e e n l ike

In

t h e e a r

ly

stages

of man s history.

While t he T as ad ay are of In

terest

anthropologically, they

a l s o

r e m i n d

u s t h a t t he re a re

m a n y m or e tr ibe s s c a tte r e d

t hr ou gh ou t t he P hilippine

Islands,

all

o f w h ic h h av e b ee n

k no wn to

t h e o u t s i d e w o rl d f or

a long time. Yet, m a n y of t he s e

long-known t ri be s h av e

o ne

t h i n k In c o m m o n w i t h t h e

T a s a d a y : T h e y h a v e b e e n

neglected by

God s

people.

To be sure,

these

Philippine

tribes may h av e been visited

by missionaries,

an d no

doubt

as tribal

people visit market

t o w n s , t h e y

s e e

c h u r c h

buildings a

clergyman, an d

If

they

ar e

lucky a foreign mis

s ion a ry . T h ey

ma y

even know

ho w

to p ro no un ce t he name

Jesus.

But these things

serve

only

to highlight

th e

main

neglect by

th e

church of

these

people, viz.

many

of these

tribes d o

n o t

h av e th e

written

W o r d of

G o d t ra ns la te d Into

their languages.

Of th e

approximately 15 0

tribes In th e

Philippines,

80

tribes, representing at least

1 6 0 , 0 0 0

p e o p l e

h a v e n o

Scriptures. This is equivalent

to a city

th e size

of

Peorla,

Illinois. Imagine such a place

having

no Bibles.

It Is

un

t h i n k a b l e t h at s u c h

a

c o n d i t i o n

s h o u l d

e x i s t in o u r

m o d e r n

world

of printing

pr esses

an d

b o o k s t o r e s .

Y et

it d oe s, a n d

no t only In

th e Philippines,

fo r

a r o u nd t h e w o r l d t h er e a r e

By

David

Filbeck

over

2 ,00 0 tr ib e s,

comprising

a total of 160,000,000 people,

w h i c h

e x i s t w i t h o u t G o d s

W o r d t r a n s l a t e d I n t o t h e i r

languages.

It Is

just this Intolerable situa

t i on t h a t

c a u s e d

t h e

c r e a t i o n o f

th e

P i o n e e r Bible

Translators,

an organization dedicated to

recruiting

a nd

sending mi s

s i o n a r i e s t o

t h e B ib le le ss

t r i b e s o f t h e w o r l d s o t h a t

t h e

pe opl e s

of

these

t ri be s m ay

l i k e w i s e r e c e i v e t h e

W o r d s

whereby

they) shall be

s a ve d

Acts

11:14).

T o a c co m pl i sh this

task

It Is

th e policy

of

PB T that e v e r y

missionary

s e nt ou t

be

trained

In Bible, Lin g u istics

a n d

C u lt ur a l A n th r op o lo g y: in

B ib le, b e c a u s e

It

c o nt ai ns t he

m e s s a g e

to

be translated; in

Linguistics, because

there

is

another

language

which

must

carry

t he m e ss a ge ;

in

Cultural

Anthropology,

b e c a u s e th e

Gospel message m us t b e un

derstandable to

th e

people

r e c e i v i n g

t h e t r a n s l a t e d

m e s s a g e .

W e a re thankful

that, s i n c e

PB T

be ga n

recruiting

for

this

task,

literally s c o r e s of

p e o p l e

have e xpre s s e d th e desire to

b e c o m e B i b l e

t r a n s l a t o r s . A n d

now,

after

tw o

years of

active

recruiting

by m e m be rs of th e

PB T t e am , s e ve r al

r e c r u i t s

a r e

in train in g In b o th Bible

c o l l e g e s a n d

s c h o o l s

of

linguistics fo r th e ministry of

Bible Translation am on g th e

B i b l e l e s s

t r i b e s o f t h e w o r l d .

Turn th e

p ag e

of this Issue

o f T h e P io ne er a nd

s e e

t h e

pictures a n d re a d th e co m

ments of some of

these many

r e cr u it s w h o

a r e

n o w in

train

ing.

Dr .

D a v i d F ilb e c k

h a s s er ve d fo

f l t e e n y e a r s a s

a - m i s

sionarylinguist a mo ng t he

T i n

tr ib e o f

n o r t h e r n

T h a i l a n d .

H e is

currently A s so c ia te P r of e ss o r

o

Linguistics at Lincoln Christian

Seminary

Lincoln,

Illinois

an d

is

serving a s

director

of

both

th e

Overseae Operations of PBT

an d

t h e P i on e er

Linguistic

Institute.


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Im M

Dan

Wilcox of

Toledo Oregon

a

graduate

of

Puget Sound College

of

th e Bible

and

o ne s um m er of

Lingui st ic t ra in ing

[n

Seattle

ash

r

Betty

Yeaney of Youngstown

0.

in

Linguistic

study at

Dallas

Tex.

S O M E P BT R EC RU IT S

Bo b

an d

Dawn

BaIrd

wh o

have

volunteered

fo r support personnel

work

with PBT

Bob

is now

studying

at Lincoln

Christian College.

John

an d

Bonlta

Pryor currently

In

Linguistic training at Dallas Te x

Judith Smith currently

in

Bib

an d Linguistic studies at

Linco

Christian

College.

Bill

Barton

B u si n es s M an ag er o

PB T at Dallas

Tex.


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FROM PHONEMES

TO

HOG BUTCHERING

by David

Pryor

After

studying

phonemes,

morphemes

and tagmenes at

th e Summer

Institute

of

Linguistics,

what

does

a person

do? He

learns

how to butcher a hog

Actually one doesn t learn how to

butcher

a hog at SIL;

he

must

go to

jungle camp

to

do that.

And it s only

after

finishing linguistic

training that

one goes to

jungle

camp.

That s th e place where my wife Sharran,

an d

I stand. We

have studied

linguistics at SIL first at Dallas

Texas and

then

during

th e

summer

at

Norman,

Oklahoma,

and

now

we are ready to study how to survive once we have

entered a

jungle

tribe, fa r

away

from th e super market and

shopping center,

to

translate

th e

Word

of

God.

This in

volves,

among

other things, l earning how to select

an d

slaughter

a pig and

preserve

meat.

The

concept of

jungle

camp training

ha s

been pioneered

and developed by

the

Wycliffe Bible

Translators. The

goal

of

such

training however is

much broader

than

just lear

ning

how to

butcher

hogs. The

r ea l goa l

is

to

present

a

real-life

j ungl e env iornment

wherein

potential

Bible

translators can learn to live and work together,

compatibly

and effectively under primitive and oftentlme

adverse

ci r

cumstances. In order to achieve this goal, th e Wycliffe Bi

ble Translators have prepared the following

curriculum:

Pioneering

Skiils i.e. preparing and

cooking

native

foods;

proper sterilization of water ; using

woodburning

stoves a nd

butane refrigerators; construction

of

mud

s t ove s

Food Planning

for

extended trip or stay

in

jungle

villages; aiso,

packing

for t rave l by

foot

mule or

canoe.

Health

and

IMedicai

e .g . hygiene ,

nutrition

physical

conditioning,

diagnosis

and t reatment of

tropical di s

eases,

suturing

of wounds, first aid for emergencies,

den

ta l

problems.

Primitive Living Techniques, i.e.

constructing

bamboo

hous e s

Trial

and

Camping Techniques

e.g. hiking, camping,

cooking, making and

hang ing jungle

hammocks;

backpacking

and packing

for hiking

and

traveling with

mule s

Survival

class

i.e. what

to

do if

lost or

a

plane

crashes;

searching

fo r

survivors; raft

building;

use of compass.

Route

Sketching and

IMapping

Canoeing e.g. paddl ing, poling in shallow or

deep

waters, and r ap id s; c op ing with upsets; handling

baggage; using

outboard motors.

Swimming e.g . l earn in g

new strokes; distance

swim

ming;

swimming in jungle rivers; crossing swift currents

and

sculling rapids;

lifesaving.

Village Living i.e. assimilating

the actual experience

of

living among ano ther

l anguage and

cul tu re group; to

practice living adjus tments and

linguistic analysis.

Learning

New Interpersonal

Relationships

e.g.

God

and self

partner

with

partner,

husband and wife parent

and child,

etc.

Left to right: Sharran, John, Amy and David Pryor.

Personal

Maturity i.e. spir itual growth in adverse cir

cumstances;

adap ta bility to different situations

wit

emphasis

on sel f- re li ance

an d initiative; efficient

use o

time

and

available materials;

overcoming fear of the un

known;

calmness

in

uncertainty and change; self

understanding

and accept ance .

This type

of

training helps

th e potential

Bible

translato

to

know hi s weakness and, more importantly,

t

strengthen areas no t fully developed. It also helps th e

per

son to

make optimun use

of

hi s

capabilities.

Jungle cam

is

no t

an academic program, but rather an opportuni ty

t

put

all of one s academic training to

practical

use.

The Pioneer

Bible

Translators as yet have no jungl

camp

where a per son can ge t this type of

survival

training

My wife and I have app li ed to attend the jungle cam

program of

th e Wycliffe

Bible

Translators,

which

is held i

southern

Mexico. However, this

c amp c an

handle

only

s

many

applicants,

and

since

WBT

has many

applicants

o

it s own fo r jungle training, we

have been assigned

space

ava i lable

s t a tus

We pray

that there will be

space available so we may ob

tain this valuable training. It is also

ou r p rayer

that some

day PBT

will

have her own jungle

camp.

We,

and t he

res

of

th e

PBT

team, request that

you

join

us

in

prayer for thi

ne ed

David Pryor is a graduate of Johnson Bible College. Before enter ing th

Summer Institute of Linguistics, he

w as the

minister of th e Christia

Church at Fal l f r il ls V i rginia.


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ThegUstBRBd

Dedicat ion ce remonies

fo r

th e Wantoa t New

Tes t amen t in

Papua New

Guinea

included

a

sho rt d ra ma

a bou t wha t it

means to hav e no

Scripture

in

a language you can unders

t a n d .

Wan to a t b el ie ve rs th em

selves

p lan ne d th e

drama.

The i r c ur ta in t im e w as

Easter

Sunday

morning,

fol lowing a tradition sing-in

c er em o ny n ea rb y. Thei r

stage ; th e

front

of th e

mi s

s ion s ta tion

at Kongaim.

Th e

props: copies of Scripture in

four

languages.

The first man re ad f rom a

New Tes t amen t in

Kate .

As h e

r ea d , t he audience murmured ,

W e d on ' t und e r s t a n d t h e

meaning of that

talk

The se

c ond m an re ad

f rom

a New

T e s t a m e n t

in

t h e

bem

language, an d listeners com

plained

that

t hi s, too , was un-

inteiligible. When a

third

man

read th e Pidgin English

ve r

s io n, a ga in

complaints

ra n

through th e

crowd:

We don't

k no w w h at it mean s

Then

John

Amunop a t

Dangepnana stepped forward,

holding

t he Wan to at

transla

t ion t ha t

h e an d

trans lator

Don

Davis had worked on togethe r.

As

he read

it th e

people

l istened

and

were very

sur

prised. Some even remarked,

Hey,

he

is reading it in our

own language now, and we

clearly

understand what it

mean s .

John

recalled later,

As I co n

tinued to r ead, t hey l is te ned

intently in utter

silence.

Don and Launa Davis had

already been working in th e

Th i s a r ti c le

is

t aken

from

In Othe r

Words, with permission of Wycliffe

Bible

Translators . Huntington

Beach, California.

Wantoat

language

for 14 years

when J oh n b dc am e

th e i r full-

time

la ng ua ge h elp er two

yea r s

ago .

For

many mon th s b efo re th e

dedica t ion

h e

had

been active

ly

involved

in a

ministry among

hi s

people. With th e help of

John

Abernethy,

Wycliffe

f inance

off icer

a t

th e Uka rum-

pa center, he r ecorded

Wan

toat Scripture on casset te ,

p repa ring the people for th e

day

when the New Testaments

would

be ready

to distribute. A

total of 650

copies

were

printed

at th e

Ukarumpa print

shop fo r this l anguage g roup

of

7,000

speakers .

John will cont inue to super

v ise d is tr ib ut io n of

th e

New

T es ta m en t a nd

o vers ee th e

use of 45

cassette players,

each

of

which

has

a

library

of

eight

hours

of recorded Aan-

toat

Scripture.

Special visitors

a t the

dedica

tion

were

Bishop Zurenoc

Zureweb of

th e Evangelical

Lut he ra n Chur ch of Papua

New Guinea; a representative

of th e Bible Society in

Papua

New

Guinea , publ isher of th e

volume; an d a staff member of

Rad io Morobe .

Others

who

watched

with

special in teres t

were

Paipdak

Togon,

a Wantoat

man who

assis ted substantially in the

t r an s la t ion

of Acts and

othe r

parts; Mac and Patricia

Low

c oc k ,

Wycl i f f e s u p p o r t

workers .

Patr icia

h ad w ork ed

In th e Wantoat language

with

Nancy Palmer Martin some

years before.

Copies of th e New Testament

ar e to

be

placed in each of th e

upper level classrooms of th e

government

p rimary schoo l,

for use by those who come fo r

religious instruction,

an d by

pupils.

John Amunopat will be

P ion ee r Bible Trans l a to r s

Box 97,

Marceline,

Missouri

69654

given time during th e cultural

activities

sessions

to

help

pupils with

any read ing

problems they may have

with

t he Wa nt oa t New Tes t amen t .

While th e event s of Eas te r

Sunday in Wantoat appeared

to be

unspectacular,

Davis

wrote,

a foundation was laid

fo r

th e

dis tr ibution and

use

of

th e Wantoa t New Tes t amen

Now we a sk the Lord of th

h a rv e st t o

use

h is t ru th in

th

hearts an d lives

of

m an y. W

wan t th e pow er of h

r e s u rr e c ti on t o become

real

th e

experience

of all who rea

and

hea r

the

wonder fu l

work

of

God

in

th e lan gu ag e

which

they

were

born.

PIONEER

L INGU IST IC INSTITUTE

Th e

Pioneer

Bible

Trans lators have teamed up with

Linco

Christian

College of Lincoln Illinois to sponsor t he P ione

Linguistic Institute. The Institute will be held on the campus

Lincoln

Christian

College June 6-12, 1976, and will offer to th

person attending

one

hour of college

credit

in

Missions

und

the title Introduction to Linguistics for Bible Translation.

The Pioneer Linguistic Institute is an agency of PBT

and has

th

objective

of

introducing

t he t echn ical fields of Linguis tic

Anthropology

and

Bible Translation to

people

interested in th

ministry

of

Bible translation.

Al

Hamilton,

founder

and

preside

of PBT, urges all PBT

recruits

who

ha ve h ad n o

linguistic trainin

to plan on at tending this institute.

For

information

on costs and other details of attending th

Pioneer Linguistic Institute, write:

Dr . David F i lbeck , Director

Pioneer Linguistic Institute

80x178 , Lincoln, 111.62656

NON-PROFIT ORG

Permit

#4

PAID

Marceline,

Mo .


5/8

T H E

Newslet ter of

t h e

Pioneer

Bible

Transla tors

VOL. 1

OCTOBER-NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1976

NO .

PBT Appoints Field Coordinator for Papua

New

Guinea

in a

mood

of

expecting

great

things to

be ac

complished for our Lord, the

Board

of Directors

of

the Pioneer Bible Translators, meeting

in

ex

ecutive

session

at

St. Louis Christian

College on

November 22, 1976, appointed Oay\6 Prypr to

b e

P B T s

Field

C o o r d i n a t o r

a n d

D i r e c t o r

for

o u r

first mission endeavor, Papua New Guinea

David

Pryor and his family

hope

to

be in

Papua

in January, 1977. Visas have been applied for

and mission

funds nearly all

raised.

The

task of the Field

Coordinator will

be to :

1 Register the p ioneer Bible Translators as a

mission with

t he Papuan

Government:

2 Report on procedures which will expedite

visas and entry

into

Papua

New

Guinea

by

other PBT rec ru it s;

3 Contact and

establish

other relationships

which

will expedite

PBT's mission

in

Papua New Guinea;

4 Survey

an

area

where PBT may serve ;

5

Establish

procedures for reporting to th e

E x e c u t i v e

Vice

P r e s i d e n t

o f

t h e

P i o n e e r

Bible Translators on the progress,

needs

a n d r ec o m m e nd at i o n s for

t h e

m i s s i o n

work in Papua New Guinea.

PBT

was established

as a mission among the

Christian

Churches in

America

three

years ago.

Why

so long before a field is chosen and mis-

,^nar ies

sent?

This is a

question

no doubt

several

have

asked. In the c a s e of PBT, the

reason for long ' lead t ime'

before

missionarie

are

sent is due to

the

training required for a mis

sionary ministry of translating th e

Scriptures

PBT

requires transla tors

to have training i

linguistics

and

related fields of study whicJ;i_nor

mally

take

two

years

to

complete.

In

addition

s u f f i c i e n t Bible k n o w le d g e m us t b

demonstrated or undertaken. As an

example o

the training involved and the time it took t

receive

it,

consider

the

training

David

Pryor

un

derwent

to

b e c o m e

a

member of PBT.

A

graduate

of

Johnson

Bible

College,

David bega

his linguistic training at the Summer Institute o

Linguistics at Dallas, Texas in the fall of 1974. H

has

finished

two

semesters

of

work at SIL

plu

several weeks

in Jungle camp training. In

addi

tion

to

this,

David

returned

to

SIL fo r

specia

training in Greek

and

translation

theory

in th

summer of 1976. Dur ing

this

two year time h

was traveling and speaking to raise missio

support .

But now, the training period is over and it

time for

work

David

pryor will

be the first

o

many

PBT

missionaries

and Bible

translators

i

Papua. John

Pryor , a

brother

to David,

plans

t

arrive with his

wife

in

Papua

in

February,

1977

Other PBT

recruits,

those

who have finishe

their

training and some who

are

currently i

training,

also plan

to work in

Papua.

More new

of t h o s e recruits will follow in

later

i s s u e s of Th

P i o n e e r

What

is apua

New uinea

like

Turn th

page and read some

Facts

and Figures o

Papua New Guinea.


6/8

JL

New Guinea

an

island

in th e South Pacific is th e

secon

largest island .in

the

world, the

largest being

Greenlan

Politically divided, th e western half is Irian Jaya an Indon

sian province while the eastern half, with an a re a

of178 2

square

miles

about the

same area as Thailand),

forms Papu

New Guinea, a

former

colony of Australia.

The

double nam

Papua and

New Guinea

came

ab ou t wh en two

form

colonies of th e same names

were

placed in trust to th

Australian government. Australia soon

however

moved

prepare the two territories

to be a unified

and Independe

nation. Formal

se l-government was gran ted

in 1973, but fu

status

as an

independent

nation

was

not

recognized

un

September

16, 1975. On

September

16, 1976,

Papua

Ne

Guinea

celebrated

its first birthday as a nation. The main ce

tres

of population include the

highlands

valleys

and u rba

areas;

like Port Moresby, the capital, with over 70,000 peopl

Lae, Rabaul, and mount Hagen and Goroka inthe Highland

Papua

ewGuinea is

a

land of

great

physical and cultu

-dlygcsityfrom the

vast, swampy

plains to the high alpin

mountains broad

upland valleys, volcanoes and

the rugge

plateaux

of

th e Central

Cordillera.

Papua New Guinea is a nat ion full of d ifferent languages. Estimates on the numbe

of languages In the nation range from more than 500 to over 700. Some languages

wi

have

fewer

than

1000

speakers others more

than 20,000

speakers. Because

of

thes

many tongues the people of Papua use Pidgin to communicate across linguisti

barriers.

Of these hundreds of languages the Wycllffe Bible Translators

and

other

working in Scripture translation) have entered into over 100 languages. Yet, only

small percentage of all languages inPapua have any portion ofthe Scriptures transla

tion. A major task of the church is providing more of the people with the Scriptures i

their

own

language.

55 of

th e

population of

Papua

New

Guinea

claim to be

Protestants

25

Roman Catholics, 2Q. noncommitted or.animist. Altogether the Christian

pop

ulation

isextirfiated at

2.2

million

people. The

United Church forms the largest

Protestant groups

with th e

Lutherans an d Roman Catholic missionaries arrived

In Papua New Guniea In the 1880 s. Currently over 50 church agencies and

.,^4000.foreign

missionaries are

working

In

the country.The types ofworkdone

by t he se agenci es and missionaries ar e evangelism literacy and literature,

Bible distribution,

and caring

for

the church

In

education and

social

needs.

THE P IONEER

Pres ident

Al

Hamilfon

Editor

David Pilbeck

. Published quarterly by The

Pioneer

Bible

Translators Box 208

Duncanville

Texas

75 6

Printed by

th e

LCC

Press

Lincoln, Illinois.


7/8

The Pioneer Bible Translators will

be

th e first

represen

tatives of

A m e r i c a n

Chr istian C h u rc h es a n d hur h s of

Christ to work in Papua

New

Guinea. But PB T will no t

be

th e

first representatives of

th e

Restoration

Movement

to

h a v e

m is si on w or k in this

nation.

T h e

Austr alian

Church

of

Christ have ha d missionaries

in

Papua

New

Guinea since 1958. In 1963 these missionaries baptized

their first c o n v e r t s a n d e st ab li sh e d their first c h u r c h in

Papua. By 1972, according to a report made to churches

in Australia about th e

progress

of

th e

work in Papua th e

report

s tated that

52 villages w er e b ei ng regularly visited,

5000

people reached

in

these

villages,

an d

2000

people

in

church

attendance each

week.

There

were 400 baptized

Christians with over 100

more

in DIscipleship classes. Th e

Australian

Churches

of Chr is t mission in Papua In addi

tion

to

ev an g el i sm h av e est abl i shed sch o ol s

an d

medical

work

In outlying

areas.

Both

types

of work,

however have

-l^een hindered

by

lack

of

trained t ea c he r s a nd

medical

workers. Another problem faced has been illiteracy

among

the popul ai on both Christian and nonchristian.

Literacy courses In Pidgin have been held to help pe o

pl e

learn

to

read. Currently these Australian brethren

work among at

least ten

languages with another

te n

languages spoken nearby. This

c re a te s t he

problem that

in any on e church service two or m ore l anguages ar e

usually

p r e se n t. S e rv i ce s t h er e fo r e

a re difficult

to

hold in

th e

indigenous languages. According to t he r ep or t m en

tioned above, th e problem of

so

many languages

means

this; The future of any indigenous

language

program

seems

to be in

t he re alm

of

private devotion

rather

than

public

worship.

/ We ar e

happy

to

report that

a

Pioneer

Bible Translators

//representative

h s

lre dy

m de

prelimin ry ont t

with

/ the

Australian

C h u r ch es of Christ

both

in Australia and

Papua New

Guinea

about coordinating

activities for

th e

caus e of

Je sus

Christ in

Papua. Ron Augsburger

a PB T

recruit made a

three-week

trip to

Australia a nd P ap ua

New

Guinea

in

September 1976.

To be

sure most

Australian b r et h re n h a d no t heard

of PB T

before this

time

bu t on e purpose

of

th e

trip

wa s

to

acquaint leaders

of

th e

Austr alian

C h u r c h e s

of

C h r i s t with P B T a n d

o u r

d e s i r e

to

join effor ts in expanding

th e

Kingdom of God in Papua

;

Ne w Guinea.

After

learning

of PBT Australian brethren

Th e

majority of

people

in Papua New

Guinea

live

villages

an d

live off th e land by foraging an d growin

crops.

In

th e

highlands in

th e

interior of th e island nation

the sweet potato is the staple food for th e villagers. In th

lowlands, along

th e

coastal

areas the

yam

and

taro

ar

t he s ta pl e

foods

of

th e

population. Missionaries of

th

Pioneer Bible Translators will be working invillages, for

is on the village level where all the linguistic diversity

an

variety

ar e

found. It is

also

in th e villages where

th

h ig he st r at e

of illiteracy is found. In fact,

th e

overa

literacy rate of

Papua

is estimated at only 35

Missionaries

of

th e Pioneer

Bible

Translators

in

additio

to linguistic analysis of

languages and S cr iptur e trans la

tion, will also teach people to read their own language

This

means

that plmers must be

composed and

a literac

progrm be carried on which will lead people to th e poin

where they a re a bl e to read th e Scriptures. But this will no

be the en d of PBT s work in Papua. There ar e

churches

t

be esta blished an d leader s tra in ed to n urture th

churches

and help evangelize th e lost. Scripture

transla

tion

and

literacy are integral parts ofthis work; that is. the

a re

t he m a jo r t oo ls b y which Pioneer Bible Translators wi

us e in expanding

an d

building up God s Kingdom i

Papua

Ne w

Guinea.

expressed

wiNingness

t o w or k

o u t d e ta i ls

how

PB T ca n b

helped in entering an d finding

languages

w he re in t o w or

in

Papua

and

h ow P BT

ca n

help

th e

Australian mission

i

Papua. Fo r example It is PBT s hope should th

Australian Churches of Christ s e e a need

an d

request i

to b e able t o p ro vi de translators

and

literacy

workers i

languages w here they

work. PBT rejoices

over th

possibility of combining efforts in Papua.

Pray

for ou

Australian missionaries in Papua and pray for PBT mi s

sionaries as they prepare

to

enter

th e

work

fo r Christ i

Pa p u a

Ne w

Gui nea.


8/8

BOARD

O F D IR EC TO RS F l^

At Its semi-annual

meeting, which was

held

on

November 22,

1976

at St . Louis Christian College,

th e

Board o f D i re c to r s of th e P i o n e e r Bible Translators m a d e

final th e organizational

structure

of PBT. In a real sense,

this wa s a reorganization, although nothing of substance

wa s

changed. PBT wa s first Incorporated as nonprofit,

religious organization in th e

state

of Oregon. But with th e

move to Duncanville,

Texas

se e Vol., No. 1

issue

of The

Pig eer), PBT undertook to be incorporated in the state

>-^fTexas. Thiswascompleted in late summerof1976 The

Cojistitutlon

an d

By-laws of

th e

Pioneer Bible Translators,

which

w e r e

written t o c on fo rm t o T ex as st at e la w r esp ec

ting nonprofit, religious organizations, were

adopted

by

th e m embe rs o f

th e

Boa rd

o f D i re c to rs . -

The

membe r s

o f

the P B T Board

o f D ir ec to rs a re :

William

Barton, Lincoln Christian

Seminary

Gerald Denny, Mount Carmel Christian Church,

D e ca tu r, G a.

David

Fllbeck,

Lincoln Christian College and

Seminary

All

Hamilton, Bedford, Texas

Susan Higgins, Lincoln Christian

College

an d

Seminary

Ma x

Ward Randall,

Lincoln Christian

College

an d

Seminary

R ondal Sm ith,

Lincoln

C hr is ti an C ol le ge

and

Seminary

Charles

Taber,

Milligan

College

David Pryor , PBT recruit to

Papua

New Guinea

Having

a do pt ed t he

By-laws,

th e

Board of Direc tors

e l ec t ed t he se o ffi c e rs :

Chairman, R on da l S m it h

Vice

Chairman,

Charles

Taber

Secretary, William Barton

T r ea s ur e r, G e ra l d Denny

P I O N E E R B I B L E T R A N S L A T O R S

Box 8

Duncanville,

T ex as

7 5 1 1 6

ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED

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A L I Z E S O R G A N I Z A T I O N

In addition,

these Administrative officers

were

selected

Al Hamilton, President

D av id F ll be c k,

Executive

Vice

President

The

A d m in i st ra t iv e o f fi c er s

a re in c h a r g e of th e

progress an d operation of

th e

Pioneer Bible Translators

ind ar e to report on .suGh4o th e Board of Directors. All

icers

are elected^arly. J

In

other

action

taken: A

committee of four w as

ap

aointed,

u nd er t he

chairperson

of Dr.

Susan

Higgins, to

set ed u cat i on al standards,

in both Bible

a n d

linguistics

pr

membership in PBT. Twcta dUiSO I

members

were

\/oted to the Board of Directors, Cjr Barton

McElroy

Academic Dean of Manhattan Christian'

Pryor David Sharran 1976 PNG

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