Just a quick update on the translation of the Farming God’s Way training resources:

Drumroll…

The DVD series translation has been completed, and is awaiting reproduction and packaging.

But…

It can’t be packaged without translated field guides, which go inside the DVD packs. As I am writing this, the final edits are being completed on our field guide translation, and we hope to have it sent off later today! We should have reproduced resources in Zulu by the end of next month!

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The translation of the FGW vegetable guide.

This is a 30-page document dealing exclusively with growing vegetables, either at a home nutrition garden scale, or on a commercial field scale (see example above of Zephaniah’s home grown crop of cabbages). We’ve asked a Zulu friend from our church, a former teacher and Kerry’s current Zulu teacher, to begin translating the veggie guide for us, and she is hard at work on it. We hope to have that one completed by the end of August, at which time we’ll have all the major FGW resources in isiZulu. Can’t wait!

This translation project has taken a great deal of time to complete.

At times, I’ve wondered if the time spent has been worth it.

Every hour we’ve spent at our computers has been an hour not spent with adopters in the field. It has felt at times that the translations have come at the cost of neglecting our sometimes-wavering adopters that are in such need of our support and encouragement.

Last month, we did a 2-day FGW training in an outlying Zulu township. Another faith-based NGO there has asked us to help them launch a food security initiative utilizing Farming God’s Way. We started with teaching some of the biblical keys, followed by practical training on making compost.

I had just received mp4 (computer file) proofs of the FGW videos we’ve translated, and so I decided to show the recently translated video on the principle, “Understanding God’s All-Sufficiency.” It’s the first time I’ve shown one of the training videos in Zulu at a training.

I watched the response of the people in the training. It was remarkable. Even the men were sitting up straight and leaning slightly forward, making sure they caught every word. The combination of the visuals with the text spoken in Zulu was compelling for all in the class. I wish I’d taken a short video of the class response to watching a training video in their own language!

It was hugely gratifying for me to see the impact these resources are going to have – not just where we are, but in different areas around South Africa, and into Zimbabwe as well – wherever the Zulu language, and its close relatives (Xhosa, Ndebele) are spoken. Pray for God’s continued blessing and favour on these important resources!