Ngoreme

There are about 55,000 Ngoreme people. They live on the east side of Mara Region, relatively far from Musoma. The Great Rift Valley runs along their land, creating a long, high cliff and many hills and valleys.

The Ngoreme language was one of the first four languages with which the Mara Cluster began work back in 2006. Teams of Ngoreme people came into Musoma town to help with alphabet and writing system development workshops, and people from the Mara Cluster went out to Ngoreme area to do reseach and build relationships with local people. Two Ngoreme Bible translators were hired in February 2009, the same time as the translators in most of the other languages of the cluster. Unfortunately, both have since left the work and only two chapters of Luke have been completed. (Thus I do not have very much information about the Ngoreme people, nor any pictures of their area.)

We plan to restart work in the Ngoreme language in 2012. Please pray that we will be able to hire two good translators with a vision for the work and that there will be adequate support available to train and supervise them.