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Burunge New Testament Books (Tanzania) The Burunge team checking the book of Acts, January 2010 The Burunge are a small group of approximately 13,000 people who are part of a cluster of ethnic groups in Tanzania known as the Southern Cushites.* The people are proud of their language and are excited about the prospect of being [...] Sad farewell to my 12-year home from home We began the New Year with a major change: I (Steve) am no longer working at our mission HQ near High Wycombe, where I’ve been based for the past twelve years. The immediate reason was pressure on office space. My three rooms—two offices and a small kitchen [...] For the last couple of weeks you’ve been biting your nails, wondering what brought Steve and Johanna together after Johanna turned him down like a bedspread. We will now put you out of your misery. As we said last time, the idea was first mooted (in Steve’s mind) while we were both doing our training at [...]
This is a presentation made in Steve’s early days among the Rendille people of northern Kenya. It’s slightly dated (umm… 1984!), but still gives a good impression of the traditional Rendille way of life, which has changed little in recent decades. It also illustrates some of the stages involved in reducing a spoken [...] Yes, folks, I’m delighted to say that I’m entering the last lap with the Chumburung typesetting. This has been quite a marathon! My back has been behaving itself, PTL, and I managed to complete the work I needed to do with Keir and Gillian Hansford by the end of July. We finished the last of the [...] High Wycombe, Monday 20th July. It was confirmed today that Steve Pillinger, the typesetter who went missing from the UK headquarters of Wycliffe Bible Translators in mid-April, has officially returned to work. After a three-month absence with back problems, he is now sufficiently recovered to work at least half-days. His colleagues Keir and Gillian Hansford, [...] High Wycombe, Friday 17th July. Unconfirmed reports say that Steve Pillinger, the typesetter who went missing from the UK headquarters of Wycliffe Bible Translators in mid-April, was briefly sighted sneaking back into the Typesetting Services department today. Positive identification was not possible from the blurred snapshot taken by a member of staff (who did not [...] Steve and Johanna were born at an early age. Separately, of course: Johanna in Tanzania (yes, that’s right: Tanzania, then the British colony of Tanganyika); and Steve in South Africa. They grew up speaking different languages. Steve spoke a South African dialect that might loosely be called ‘English’; and Johanna spoke a corrupted version of [...] This would be hilarious, if it wasn’t probably true! In the UK people might put ‘Zimbabwe’ instead of ‘Sudan’… Ties in with a question I was asked by a US international telephone operator years ago when I wanted to put a call through to South Africa. “Which country in South Africa, sir?” |
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