{"id":11,"date":"2006-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-16T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T16:50:11","slug":"cherokee-nation-here-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/2006\/09\/16\/cherokee-nation-here-we-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherokee nation here we come."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/files\/2006\/09\/2229_3700.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/files\/2006\/09\/2229_3700.jpg\" alt=\"Talehqua, Oklahoma...our new home for six weeks\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The skills and training we have learned are vital to our future ministry.&nbsp; For April specifically, she has been given&nbsp;the enormous task of&nbsp;being the&nbsp;one responsible in our future tribal team to break down the tribal language,&nbsp;analyze it&#8217;s grammatical structures, and reduce the words they say into written form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This, by far, is no easy task.&nbsp; To finalize all the training she has received we have been asked&nbsp;for six weeks to go to live among the Cherokee people in Talehqua, Oklahoma to do a test run with an actual native language.&nbsp; The task will be to meet daily with a Cherokee culture and language helper to&nbsp;elicit words &amp; texts.&nbsp; Then, from the data gathered, to&nbsp;do a&nbsp;language write-up attempting to ultimately break down the language, &amp; give it an alphabet.&nbsp; When all said and done this will probably be about 80 pages of text.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; While this may seem boring and unexciting on the surface,&nbsp;it is this work that will&nbsp;enable&nbsp;us to translate God&#8217;s word into a tribal language on the mission field so that one day very soon an unreached&nbsp;people group will be able to read&nbsp;God&#8217;s words in their own language.&nbsp; Now that is cool stuff!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Be in prayer for us as we prepare to leave for Oklahoma in less than 2 weeks.&nbsp; For specific prayer requests on this click on this link.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntm.org\/ryan-beck\/pray.php\">www.ntm.org\/ryan-beck\/pray.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ryan &amp; April Beck<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can we be sure that the culture and language learning skills we have learned will really help us?  Are we really prepared to go overseas and begin learning a tribal language?  Will 6 weeks living among Cherokee people really be enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}