Bible for Arctic’s Inuktitut now complete
After 33 years, the Bible is now available in the language of Canada’s Eastern Arctic Inuit – Inuktitut, reports the Bible Society, NI.
“We give thanks for the dedication service that took place on June 3 in the igloo–shaped St Jude’s Cathedral in Iqaluit, and that the Bible is now available for all who want it!
Bishop Benjamin Arreak and a team of Canadian Bible Society translators, completed this project of a lifetime to make a complete Bible in Inuktitut. The team was a partnership between the Bible Society and the Anglican Church and was the first time an entire Canadian translation was carried out by first–language speakers instead of by missionaries.
“Everywhere we go, people are always asking when we will have a whole Bible in our language,” Arreak said. “Our people are willing to pay whatever the cost for the complete Bible. They cannot wait to have one… To have an Old Testament will help… people understand better the New Testament message of the Gospel and God’s redemption plan and the future of God’s people.”
Praise God for this incredible milestone for the Inuktitut people. Please pray that they will have an insatiable appetite for God’s Word and that their faith will be greatly strengthened. Pray too for plans to produce other Scripture products including Study Bibles and Audio Scriptures.
The Diocese of Down and Dromore is of course recently linked to the Arctic by virtue of one of it’s rectors, Revd Darren McCartney of Knocnamuckley, becoming Suffragan Bishop there.
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