Dear Praying Friend, Below is a report taken from the recent Tyndale House email bulletin (http://193.60.91.18/Tyndale/Newsletters/TH_Newsletter_Autumn2008W.pdf). Your prayers, concern and financial support have made this visit to Tyndale House library a reality for the PhD students who are now back at NEGST and reunited with their families.
We still need $4,000 by the end of October to help Phoebe, a PhD student, with her rent.
Chester & Dolores
A visit from Nairobi
It has been a real delight to welcome a group of 10 third-year doctoral students from the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (NEGST) from 19 August to 30 September. All the students are working in Biblical Studies and four are majoring in Bible translation. Countries represented are: Sudan, Kenya, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Ethiopia. While at Tyndale House, the students have been using the library (obviously!) and also attending seminars put on by staff on subjects such as Greek and Hebrew reading, paleography, and IT for biblical studies. They have also been leading chapel, and teaching us to sing in Swahili!
We still need $4,000 by the end of October to help Phoebe, a PhD student, with her rent.
Chester & Dolores
A visit from Nairobi
It has been a real delight to welcome a group of 10 third-year doctoral students from the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (NEGST) from 19 August to 30 September. All the students are working in Biblical Studies and four are majoring in Bible translation. Countries represented are: Sudan, Kenya, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Ethiopia. While at Tyndale House, the students have been using the library (obviously!) and also attending seminars put on by staff on subjects such as Greek and Hebrew reading, paleography, and IT for biblical studies. They have also been leading chapel, and teaching us to sing in Swahili!
Ramadan at Tyndale
Ramadan Chan is one of the NEGST students and tells us a little about himself: “I come from a mainly Muslim area in Southern Sudan, where I have been involved in Bible translation
and church planting. Since 2001 I have been General Secretary of the Sudan Interior Church (over 40,000 members). My main role is to equip local churches for outreach. My PhD
focus is on Biblical Studies and Translation in order to help me teach in churches and seminaries and to be a consultant for Bible translation projects. Our current translation projects are in Dinka Padang, Mabaan, Uduk, and Shilluk. These languages together are spoken by more than 2 million people. I have greatly appreciated the hospitality I’ve received at Tyndale
House and the comprehensiveness of the library collection. It’s hard to imagine how we could do our PhDs without coming to a library like this. The visit should make a huge difference to the quality of our theses.”
