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"Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart."

Psalm 37:4

MISSIONARIES LEARNING URIAI LANGUAGE

Lisa and her teammates are learning the Uriai language.

September 24, 2007

by Jackie Fallis

Missionaries Lisa Kappeler, M'Liss Spero and Elias and Jose Struik are stepping toward fluency in the Uriai language.

Saturday morning three missionaries experienced in church planting arrived in the village for a couple of days. They'll be there to discuss strategies, goals and perspectives on church planting. "With a new couple on the team [Tim and Rebecca Peterson] it'll be a great time to refocus and even re-evaluate some of our previous strategies," wrote Lisa.

Today, Elias and M'Liss will undergo full evaluations to see where they are in fluency.

Lisa will also be evaluated. "My evaluation won't be quite the same … They want to check out that my discourse analysis is finished -- this is important for translation. I'm praying that they give me the green light to move officially into full-time translation," she wrote.

Right now, working on learning the language is difficult. There are four families in the village while the rest hunt and live out in the bush.

Lisa, in need of a hortatory text to study, searched for two days. A hortatory text exhorts, as in the epistles written by Paul versus the Pentateuch written by Moses.

After searching and finding a general recording that might work, Lisa went to the house of her language helper. "A perfect opportunity came up," she wrote. "His daughter was disobeying her mom … telling her all why she should do what her mother said. A very natural occurrence so I was able to get that on tape and use that to analyze as well. Here the Lord provided what I needed when I needed."

Please pray that the missionaries do well in their language evaluations and that the new couple fits in well and is able to learn rapidly.