{"id":1947,"date":"2024-09-23T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T17:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2024-09-23T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T17:30:27","slug":"pointing-to-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2024\/09\/23\/pointing-to-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointing to Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00c3 \u02bcb\u025b\u025b sa \u02bcpii Yesu t\u0169r\u0169, yuwe yi \u02bcoo l\u0254\u0254l\u0254 yo,
\u00e3 \u02bcb\u025b\u025b sa \u02bcpii yi t\u0169r\u0169, yuwe yi \u02bcoo l\u0254\u0254l\u0254.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s follow Jesus, He’s the One who is the Savior, oh!
Let’s follow Jesus, He’s the One who is the Savior.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine a group of My People, gathered under a big tree in one of their villages, singing this song as they dance, clap and rejoice.\u00a0 Though I am not there to see it, I hear that it’s happening!\u00a0 I hear that there is a small but growing church among My People, and when they meet they sing praises in My Language!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my projects since being back is to take a few of those songs in audio form and write them out, making what is essentially the first hymnal or Christian songbook in My Language!  It only has 8 songs for now, but they have been talking about getting me some more audios so that it can keep growing.  Every big thing needs to start small!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One exciting thing about having these songs written down is that it gives us a chance to discuss little details and to make minor changes that won’t just be forgotten. Some are changes that they wonder about, like, “Should we be saying ‘I praise Him’ or ‘We praise Him?'” And some are changes that I wonder about, like, “Should we use the borrowed word from Jula there, or instead change it to a key term we discussed in My Language?” “Is this spelled correctly?” “What are the connotations of using that word?  We know what we’re trying to say, but is that the meaning that is coming across here?”  There are definitely benefits to having things written down!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we don’t just have plans for paper and ink here.\u00a0 Someone with another organization has said that once we’re sure the songs are good, and especially that there is no heresy in them, she wants to help the My People church record them in the recording studio of the local Christian radio station so that they can be on the radio and can be passed around from telephone to telephone as well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all of these years working on minute details of language and writing, it’s exciting to see them being used to create something tangible to point people to Jesus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c3 \u02bcb\u025b\u025b sa \u02bcpii Yesu t\u0169r\u0169, yuwe yi \u02bcoo l\u0254\u0254l\u0254 yo,\u00e3 \u02bcb\u025b\u025b sa \u02bcpii yi t\u0169r\u0169, yuwe yi \u02bcoo l\u0254\u0254l\u0254. Let’s follow Jesus, He’s the One who is the Savior, oh!Let’s follow Jesus, He’s the One who is the Savior. Imagine a group of My People, gathered under a big tree in one of their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}