Generosity to the glory of God - Ghana
The Nyagbo, Logba and Tafi people form the Nyalota Cluster programme in Ghana. After tasting the transforming power and richness of the New Testament translated into their mother tongues, these communities wanted to receive the Word in its entirety. They are grateful to God because they shall soon have the complete Bible in their mother tongues and feel abundantly blessed by the prospect of this precious gift.
Praise God that the launch of the Old Testament translation project for the Nyagbo, Logba and Tafi languages was held in the Volta Region on April 15. It was a special day full of joy and praise to God. The square was filled with speakers of these three languages and other stakeholders. Dignitaries of the community could be seen in their traditional dress, testifying to the richness of their cultures.
Women dance at the Nyalota cluster project Old Testament translation launch. Photo: GILLBT
The ceremony was a mosaic of music, colour and symbolic traditions. After the opening prayer, there was an exchange of greetings and the respected community leaders stood to greet the audience in their mother tongues. It was a humble act of submission to this community-wide effort. Then Rev. Kenzu came forward to introduce the special guests. Celebratory cheers and honouring hoots could be heard from the crowd. When Mr Sylvester Kwame Nkrumah, Executive Director of Ghana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy and Bible Translation (GILLBT), and his staff, as well as the media, were introduced, the crowd applauded loudly. Every time someone spoke, or was introduced, the jubilant crowd responded with enthusiastic cheers and applause.
A well-chosen rhythm from the women's choir, enhanced by a variety of traditional instruments, prompted several other women to join the singers in spontaneous dancing. Suddenly, the whole stage was filled with jubilant women in an array of traditional outfits, expressing their joy and thankfulness to God. A round of applause crowned the end of this musical and dance performance. Then, the word of welcome was given, accompanied by the sound of the tamtam, a traditional tool of communication in African culture.
People bringing gifts to the Nyalota cluster project Old Testament translation launch. Photo: GILLBT
Project manager Mr Michael Serchie explained how the New Testament was well used by the communities, with help from Scripture engagement facilitators. They had requested from GILLBT the possibility of gaining access to the whole counsel of God, through the translation of the Old Testament. Mr Sylvester expressed the gratitude of GILLBT and the Nyalota language communities to the Jerome Prairie Bible Church in the US for responding to this expressed desire by generously giving financially to, and praying for, the Old Testament translation work.
Bible translators of these language groups received brand new computers and projectors to facilitate their work. GILLBT's joy is that all efforts such as these bring abundant happiness to the 40 language communities they work with in Ghana. It is impressive to see these populations mobilising for events like this, which give them the hope of having the full revelation of God in their mother tongue. “Even after the ceremony,” one attendee said, “the songs and applause of these people continued to echo in your head”. This was a happiness shared to the glory of God.
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Tech pioneer: Christians ‘have to show up’ for AI
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AI will be more dramatic. … This is now incredibly useful, and we’re going to see AI become just like the internet, where every single interaction will be infused with AI capabilities. In the 75-year-or-so history of computing, we humans have been adapting to the computer. … With AI, computers adapt to us. We talk to them. They hear us. They see us for the first time. And now they are becoming a user interface that fits with humanity. And for this and so many other reasons that every technology has been building on the prior technology, AI will unquestionably be the biggest of these waves, more impactful even than the internet was. On the need for AI development to be open-source It is so critical because we’re embedding knowledge, embedding values, embedding understanding into those underlying models, large language models and every aspect that happens. It must be open, and this is part of what I think is critical about us being together here today. We need to be creating trusted, open, useful AI that we can build humanity on. On the need for Christians to help build AI systems We have to show up as the faith community to be influencing those outcomes, because remember what happened in the social media. We didn’t show up, and look at what we got. So are we going to miss this opportunity for something that’s far more important than social networking with AI? Where it truly in the models embeds every aspect of human history and values into it? We have to show up, team. What we do with large language models is far more important because truly we are choosing how we embody knowledge of all time into those underlying models. They need to be open. They need to be trusted. What Christians must bring to the process If we’re going to show up to influence AI broadly, we have to show up with good engineering, good data, good understanding, good frameworks. How do you measure things like ‘Is that leading to better character? Is that leading to better relationships? Is that creating better vocational outcomes? Is that a valid view of a spiritual perspective?’ We need good underlying data associated with each one of these. And for that we’re actively involved. We’re driving to create that underlying data set. Because we need to show up with good data if we’re going to influence how AI is created. How should this work? For the AI systems we need to create good benchmarks. If I ask about God, does it give me a good answer or not? If I ask about relationships with my children, does it give me good answers? We need to create the corpus of data to give good answers to those questions. And, armed with that good data, we need to show up to influence the total landscape of AI. We want to benchmark OpenAI. We’re going to benchmark Gemini. We’re going to benchmark Claude. We’re going to benchmark Copilot. This is what we’re going to do at Gloo, but we want to be part of a broader community in that discussion so that we’re influential in creating flourishing AI. Technology is a force for good. AI that truly embeds the values that we care about, that we want to honour, that we want to be representing into the future and benchmarking across all of them. Oh his role with Gloo We are going to change the landscape of the faith community and its role in shaping this most critical technology, AI, for faith and flourishing. That’s what we’re going to do at Gloo and we need all of your help and partnership to do so because if we don’t hang together, we’re not going to influence the outcome, right? ‘Here am I, Lord’ I don’t think I’m done. … You and I both need to come to the same position like Isaiah did. Here am I, Lord. Send me. Send me. Send us. That we can be shaping technology as a force for good. That we could grab this moment in time. This is the greatest time to live in human history. 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