{"id":1087,"date":"2012-09-18T08:34:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rick-zook\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2015-11-05T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T19:46:00","slug":"multiplying-ourselves-assisting-the-mouk-to-reach-the-lusi-and-the-anem-and-the-kove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rick-zook\/2012\/09\/18\/multiplying-ourselves-assisting-the-mouk-to-reach-the-lusi-and-the-anem-and-the-kove\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiplying Ourselves: Assisting the Mouk to Reach the Lusi . . . and the Anem and the Kove"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Rick<\/a>
Rick and the Mouk men of the language learning class. Those with green books are learning Lusi, purple is Kove, and pink is for Anem. Our three partners are on the right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s a big job — learning someone else’s language and culture so that we can speak to them clearly. Where does anyone begin? In NTM we know where to begin because we have consultants, and training, and helps in English.\u00a0 But what about the local churches whom we are assisting here in PNG, where do they start?\u00a0 Let me tell you a story which started this summer . . . .<\/p>\n

Recently a group of three Mouk Bible Teachers and their families moved to our village to help our partners with future outreaches to the Lusi.\u00a0 They need to learn Lusi in order to do that effectively.\u00a0 So on Saturdays and our “free time” from translation, we pulled together some materials for them.\u00a0 Remembering how we started, and what were rough spots, and making pictures available to them — we started an impromptu “How to learn another language class” and put the materials into a booklet (which is still in the process).<\/p>\n

After a couple of weeks, Selu showed up.\u00a0 He is a Mouk elder who wants to learn Anem, a neighboring language which is completely unrelated to Mouk.\u00a0 He wanted to know if we could make one of those language learning booklets for him?\u00a0 Sure, but we’ll take out the Lusi and leave the directions in Melanesian Pidgin (the trade language).<\/p>\n

The next week at language learning class Selu was back.\u00a0 Could he have two more copies for two more guys who wanted to learn Anem too? Sure, we’d be glad to do that too.<\/p>\n

The following week, some Mouk elders came and shared great news about how they had gone through the Phase 1 teaching with the Headmaster of the community school who was from the Kove language group.\u00a0 And he and his family had become believers.\u00a0 The Headmaster wanted his family to hear what he had heard.<\/p>\n

The next week, they were back.\u00a0 Realizing that an outreach to the Kove would probably happen in the future, three guys wanted to start learning Kove, so that they could talk to people about Jesus in their own heart language.\u00a0 Could we make three more language learning books for them?\u00a0 Sure, we’re happy to do that!<\/p>\n

So we find we are multiplying ourselves as we teach people from the local Mouk church how to learn a language and a culture. We could never reach all those people groups on our own.\u00a0 But we can assist others to reach out to them.\u00a0 Isn’t God good!\u00a0 This didn’t catch Him by surprise at all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a big job — learning someone else’s language and culture so that we can speak to them clearly. Where does anyone begin? In NTM we know where to begin because we have consultants, and training, and helps in English. But what about the local churches whom we are assisting here in PNG, where do they start? Let me tell you a story which started this summer . . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":799,"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":[125,275,4],"tags":[6794,6795,6796,2547,2548,638,6793],"class_list":{"0":"post-1087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-culture","7":"category-language","8":"category-ministry","9":"tag-aiding-local-churches","10":"tag-anem","11":"tag-kove","12":"tag-lusi","13":"tag-mouk","14":"tag-papua-new-guinea","15":"tag-purposeful-partnerships","16":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rick-zook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rick-zook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rick-zook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rick-zook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/799"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rick-zook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rick-zook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rick-zook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rick-zook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rick-zook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}