Photography
When the Word Becomes Words
Ann Voskamp and photographer Esther Havens document the moment a new Bible translation arrives in a rural Kenyan community.
Text by Ann Voskamp
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The
word of God comes riding in on a camel. It’s a kind of modern-day Palm
Sunday in Northern Kenya, the nomadic Rendille people waving their worn
sticks instead of palm branches, the Word of God itself stacked in bound
cardboard boxes, lashed to the hump of a swaying dromedary.
More
than a thousand Rendille and dozens of distant neighboring tribespeople
have gathered in the stifling heat, with ready smiles and raised hands,
to greet the completed New Testament in their own mother tongue. They
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Thursday, January 3, 2019
When the Word Becomes Words
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