{"id":531,"date":"2012-10-26T17:30:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T21:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/?p=531"},"modified":"2012-10-22T22:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T02:27:31","slug":"a-painstaking-labor-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/2012\/10\/26\/a-painstaking-labor-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;Painstaking Labor of Love&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can I switch gears from our family to the amazing work with New Tribes that we get to be a part of? It is why we endure hardship and it is also what motivates us to keep going.<\/p>\n<p>Let me ask you this: How many Bibles do you have? Print editions, study Bibles, apps on your mobile device? I&#8217;ve got as many as most and probably more. It makes me wonder though about how a person feels and thinks when they receive God&#8217;s word in their own language for the first time.\u00a0<em><strong>God&#8217;s Word will radically change lives. The process of translating it for a people group is a painstaking labor of love.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d2q0qd5iz04n9u.cloudfront.net\/_ssl\/proxy.php\/http\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/00b207387f0ee8016b1aa2c0c\/images\/IMG_0937e7dea4.JPG\" alt=\"tribal_bible\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" align=\"right\" \/>New Tribes missionaries around the world are in each of the various phases of translating God&#8217;s word for the first time in a number of tribal languages right now! Our Communications Team has a really unique and privileged role to play in this work. This past month, one of my team-mates from the Communications Team had the privilege of doing the final layout work on a Tribal Bible and I had the chance to see the printed copy before even the missionary who translated saw it! Talk about a buzz! For a little more detail check out the\u00a0recent told the story of one of these translations in the video below!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Siawi Bible Translation \/\/ Ethnos360\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cuK760XhoUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God&#8217;s Word will radically change lives. The process of translating it for a people group is a painstaking labor of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":782,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3417,35],"tags":[13702,638,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-our-new-ministry","7":"category-video","8":"tag-communications","9":"tag-papua-new-guinea","10":"tag-tribal","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}