Hazel Gray
BIBLE TRANSLATION IN TANZANIA
Hazel Gray was a member of our church family up to the time she went away to university in Bath in 2003 to study Mathematics. She finished her course last year and has joined Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT) - mathematicians seem to make good language analysts! WBT have a vision to provide the Bible in the mother language of every group in the world. At present there are some 6,000 recognised different languages and only some 430 have the whole Bible.
As a member of the church family involved in world mission the PCC has decided that we should support Hazel in prayer and financially. Hazel completed her training in this country and, in January 2008, left the UK for Tanzania. She is currently studying Swahili, the lingua franca of Tanzania, at a language school in Iringa and, in June 2008, will move to Musoma, north-west Tanzania, on the shores of Lake Victoria. Here she will start work with a team producing the written version of one of the many spoken only languages of Tanzania. Once the language has been put into writing, translation of the Bible can then be done.
Hazel keeps an up to date blog which can be accessed on : http://hazelgray.blogspot.com/
Click here to read a transcript of an interview Hazel did for Christ Church in April 2008.
Please click here for Hazel’s most recent prayer letter.
Previous Prayer Letters
January 2009
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
