There is no complete Holy Bible printed for the Dinka people at large. There have been three instances of printing of the New Testament. The first printing took place in 1940 for the Southeastern Dinka (Bor). The second printing took place in 1952 for the Northeastern Dinka (Döŋjöl). The third printing took place in 2005 for the Southwestern Dinka (Rek). Thus, there has not been a combined print of the Holy Bible in both Testaments. That means the Old Testament has not yet been attempted in printing.
However, the Dinka Rek Bible Translation has its beginning on the campus of Oakwood College. When I arrived to Denver, Colorado in 2001 from Kakuma Refugee Camp with my brothers of Sudan, the vision had only just begun to be fulfilled. After I was establish in Colorado, I came to Oakwood College in January 2003 to study Theology. Here, I made my vision known to the chair of the department of the Biological Sciences and he asked me, "What is preventing you from beginning?" He explained to me the pla n of what I should do and bought me some materials to begin it.
The project was housed in the Public Relations department at East Hall and carried out by me- Wol Bol Wol, the student of theology at Oakwood College. The project was recommended and voiced by Dr. Anthony Paul the chair of the department of Biological Sciences. There are three project sponsors: Dr. Delbert Baker the current president of Oakwood College, Dr. Anthony Paul the chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, and Sis. Jacqui Gates the former vice-president of Public Relations at Oakwood College. Through the help of President Baker, I had the priviledge of presenting the project to the North-American Division president -Don Schneider during one of the school board meeting here.
The Dinka Rek Bible Translation project is located on the campus of Andrews University in Berrien Springs, MI.
Today, Fifty-one books of the Bible are completed aside from the translations of 74, 130 words of different incompleted books. I also have a partner who has completed the Pentateuch -five books of Moses, whose name is Amos Mathuc Achuil. Mathuc is working on revising the Pentateuch now. He was here at Andrews University in Berrien Spring, Michigan. Amos graduated in Religious Education in August,2007 and went home to Sudan to work for a year. He is a Dinka who is zealous about the completion of the project.
Please pervently pray for us and support us out of your willingness and means. God bless you all...
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