This week, I read this Star Tribune article reporting on the Christian Oromo community (a people group in Ethiopia) celebrating 100 years of their Bible being translated.
An Oromo slave named Onesimus was freed by some Swedish Lutheran workers and he subsequently went to work translating the Bible into his mother tongue, Oromo. The Oromo people have experienced great persecution from many sides: political, religious, etc., and so there is a significant Oromian diaspora.
The 100 year anniversary of the translation was in December 1999, and since there are a number of Oromo Christians who are Lutheran who live in the Twin Cities, there was a celebration at the Oromo Evangelical Lutheran Church in Minneapolis.
Praise God for His severe and kind providence!
An Oromo slave named Onesimus was freed by some Swedish Lutheran workers and he subsequently went to work translating the Bible into his mother tongue, Oromo. The Oromo people have experienced great persecution from many sides: political, religious, etc., and so there is a significant Oromian diaspora.
The 100 year anniversary of the translation was in December 1999, and since there are a number of Oromo Christians who are Lutheran who live in the Twin Cities, there was a celebration at the Oromo Evangelical Lutheran Church in Minneapolis.
Praise God for His severe and kind providence!
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