We recently helped run a workshop in Madang town. The workshop helped to establish or strengthen local steering committee's to direct the work of language development and Bible translation. It was attended by seven language groups from the Madang and Morobe provinces including the three languages we work in within the Gwahatike Multi-Language Project.
Local ownership is a critical piece of a successful Bible translation project. Often times it is difficult for the translation team to give ownership over to the community. Even if all of the right attitudes are present in the translation team there needs to be some structure brought into the relationship between the translation team and the broader community they are serving. The local steering committee (or local language board) fills this role.
It was a successful workshop with all of the teams leaving with an action plan for how they were going to support Bible translation in their context.
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| Jon taught some of the modules |
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| Group photo of teachers and students |
