30 Days for the Zhuang (Prayer Guide) - Mekong Springboard Mission

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DAY 10: Urgent Needs: Media – JESUS Film, Gospel Recordings, Radio"... we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”Acts 2:11bImagine there were no more than a few books, a limited number of musicrecordings, and only a handful of movies in your own language. Even ifyou had any books or other printed materials in your language, you wouldn’tbe able to read them, as you never learned to read and write in your ownlanguage. This is in fact what the seventeen million Zhuang people facetoday. Nearly all education is done through Mandarin, and most peoplenever learn to read or write in their own local dialect. That’s why audioand video materials are one of the best ways to share the gospel with the Zhuang. The JESUS film is onlyavailable in one dialect of the Zhuang language. Most of the Zhuang, however, do not understand thisversion. Other localized versions of this video need to be produced in the remaining twelve major dialects.At the moment there is a daily thirty-minute radio program aimed at proclaiming the gospel to the Zhuang,but this only covers one of the thirteen major dialects. Broadcasts are needed in many different dialects toenable every Zhuang person to hear the gospel in their own heart language. Very simple gospel recordingsare also available in a variety of local dialects, but this is only a first step. Gospel messages and scripturesin the various dialects are still urgently needed, along with regular follow-up, discipleship materials, andindigenous worship music.Pray:• For efforts underway to produce additional Zhuang dialect versions of the JESUS film, so that Zhuangpeople from all the dialect groups may be able to watch this video in their own heart language.• For Zhuang radio programs in the various dialects, so there will be regular broadcasts aimed at all ofthe Zhuang areas.• For the production and distribution of basic Christian materials on audio tape or other media in the variousmajor Zhuang dialects.
DAY 11: Urgent Needs: Translation"When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’sdelight..."Jeremiah 15:16aOnce this past year, two good friends from a local Zhuang village bothcame to know the Lord on the same afternoon. That night they went backto their own homes to sleep, and each had a dream. The next day, theywere talking to each other, and were amazed to discover that God hadgiven them both the exact same dream. Each dreamed that someone gavethem a Bible, which they then read every day. Not only that, they actuallychewed on the words. But how can you really chew over the message of the Bible if there is no Bible inyour own language?Praise God that he is calling forth people who are taking up the task of translating portions of the Bible intosome of the Zhuang dialects. It is not a simple task. These translators need to come to an understanding ofthe original meaning of words using resources in their second language. Then they must mull over andgrapple with how to express that meaning in their own language. How can they find words for strangecustoms like baptism and circumcision? It is especially difficult to decide on the best words to use for God,messiah, and savior. Mulling over these ideas and grappling with these concepts, they chew on these ideasso that the word will become a joy and delight in the hearts of more and more Zhuang people.Praise God:• For the translation teams that he is already raising up.Pray:• That all the needs of translation teams would be supplied, including God’s protection, wisdom, andtranslation skills—even for the right reference books to be available at the right time.• That God would raise up and prepare more people to participate in Bible translation work in each ofthe thirteen dialects, which differ greatly from one another.• For vision among the leaders of the Zhuang churches for Bible translation work.• For wisdom in decisions regarding dialects and Zhuang writing systems. Policies concerning these issuespresent challenges in bringing God’s word to all of the Zhuang people.• For God to pave the way and to reveal his plan for how scripture is to be tested and distributed once ithas been translated.
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Page 4 and 5: Welcome to “31 Days for the Zhuan
Page 6 and 7: DAY 2: Who Are the Zhuang? Good New
Page 8 and 9: DAY 4: Letter from a Zhuang House C
Page 10 and 11: DAY 6: Urgent Needs: A ”PRO-PUSH
Page 12 and 13: DAY 8: Urgent Needs: Indigenous Chr
Page 16 and 17: DAY 12: Urgent Needs: Partnership
Page 18 and 19: DAY 14: Urgent Needs: Training of H
Page 20 and 21: DAY 16: Urgent Needs: More Overseas
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Page 24 and 25: DAY 20: Trends: Internet Explosion
Page 26 and 27: DAY 22: Key Opportunities: Ministry
Page 28 and 29: DAY 24: Key Opportunities: the Arts
Page 30 and 31: DAY 26: Key Opportunities: Short-te
Page 32 and 33: DAY 28: Barriers to the Gospel: Mat
Page 34 and 35: DAY 30: Barriers to the Gospel: The
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