Sleeping Coconuts eBook John Nystrom Bonnie Nystrom Bob Creson
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Peter looked up and saw the first of three consecutive waves, each over thirty feet high, throwing up a huge cloud of mist as it enveloped a friend’s house and threw it into the lagoon like a piece of driftwood. He then turned toward his own neighborhood in time to witness the massive wave breaking, completely submerging houses, tall coconut trees, everything. As it rushed toward their defenseless canoe, he watched the wave pluck his own house from the ground like a blade of grass, and sweep it high, carrying it on its peak.
In the late 1980s, John and Bonnie Nystrom came alongside Pastor Peter and several other men from Arop village in Papua New Guinea to translate the Bible into the local language. Now, while visiting another part of the country just ten years later, John and Bonnie learned that tragedy had struck Arop village, causing a massive loss of life.
What had happened? Were their neighbors okay? What about the members of the Bible translation team? Was this the end of Bible translation for Arop?
In Sleeping Coconuts, John and Bonnie Nystrom share their story of tragedy, teamwork and transformation, and the incredible way that God used a tsunami to change the face of Bible translation in Papua New Guinea.
For over twenty-five years, John and Bonnie have served with Wycliffe Bible Translators as linguists for various language groups in Papua New Guinea. They continue to work on projects from their home in Florida, making periodic trips to Papua New Guinea to work with the Bible translation teams face-to-face.
Sleeping Coconuts eBook John Nystrom Bonnie Nystrom Bob Creson
This book is very well written by Bonnie and John Nystrom. If you ever wondered what kind of people missionaries really are, this book will give you a good look at life in a world apart from what we usually know. The way these two live and ache for those in very primitive societies, yet find them leap frogging over centuries of darkness into the brightness of life today is amazing. Who would have thought that people groups with no written language would be able to use computers and cooperate with other primitive tribes to speed translation of the Word of God into more than a dozen languages under the guidance of just one or a few expatriates living, working and grieving right along side of them in conditions few of us would ever experience for a week! You have got to read this book. It may change your life. It may challenge you to go to the ends of the earth to live out the life that Jesus Christ has planted in your hearts.It is hard to put this book down. I found great sobs welling up inside of me for these people as a huge tsunami destroyed their village, killed a third of their people and left them with absolutely nothing!
Grant Hoatson, Ed.D.
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Sleeping Coconuts eBook John Nystrom Bonnie Nystrom Bob Creson Reviews
I purchased this book because it was recommended by friends of ours who know the Nystroms from Wheaton College. What a wonderful and educational read. The first hand accounts of the tsunami were riveting and heartbreaking. And the development, over the years, of the translation process was truly fascinating. How can we say anything else but "to God alone be the glory!"
Sleeping Coconuts describes the terrible 1998 tsunami which wiped away a village on the north shore of Papua New Guinea and carries the reader into the horror and pain both of the people and of the expatriates who were learning the Arop language, developing a writing system, and undertaking the preparation of reading materials and translated Scripture. As the remaining villagers regrouped, the cries for language development from surrounding language communities became so urgent, the linguists felt compelled to respond. As a result, committees from eleven language communities are now being trained to develop their languages in written form, and the concept and strategies for cluster-project linguistic development were born. .
Having been to Papua New Guinea and staying with John and Bonnie Nystrom among the Arop people 6 years after the tsunami, I thought I had a pretty good understanding of the impact the 1998 storm had on everybody. But this book opened my eyes to things I wish I knew when I visited. It's so well written, with honest lessons and insights from 2 people who have given their lives to serve God and people, that I almost felt like I was right there with them. I highly recommend this book.
If one is interested in any type of translation work then this is a very good story. Though the history through which the author and his community live is dramatic, the telling is not. The story line moves, but does not flow. Characters are introduced but not developed. I would think most missionaries or those involved in Bible translation work would find the book helpful and inspirational, but the general reading public would not.
Wonderful story of empowering a community of different languages to do their own Bible translation. It reads a little bit like a report on a log of activities which is understandable since it is written by technical linguist types. But for me it would be interesting to hear more about the personal side to the story about how these "living epistles" lived out their lives (through sickness, acculturation, child-rearing, etc.) in order to bring God's transformation. I suspect that the actual Bible translations highlighted in the book are only part of the many successes that happened while raising a family in Papua New Guinea.
This is a real story about real life-and-death struggles of people dedicated to brining the Word of God to people in their own languages, even when the cost is very high.
I love these people. Even though I shed a few tears reading about the tragic tsunami, I rejoice that God brought some good out of it all. He gave great creative ideas to John and Bonnie that are leading to greater fruitfulness in their ministry.
If you want to know what makes Bible translation missionaries tick, read this.
This is a great story of how God used the tragedy of the 99 tsunami to change the course of Bible translation in Papua New Guinea. Through the book you will hear John and Bonnie's love for the people, love for Gods word, and passion for ongoing work of bringing the Bible to people who have never heard it in their own language.
This book is very well written by Bonnie and John Nystrom. If you ever wondered what kind of people missionaries really are, this book will give you a good look at life in a world apart from what we usually know. The way these two live and ache for those in very primitive societies, yet find them leap frogging over centuries of darkness into the brightness of life today is amazing. Who would have thought that people groups with no written language would be able to use computers and cooperate with other primitive tribes to speed translation of the Word of God into more than a dozen languages under the guidance of just one or a few expatriates living, working and grieving right along side of them in conditions few of us would ever experience for a week! You have got to read this book. It may change your life. It may challenge you to go to the ends of the earth to live out the life that Jesus Christ has planted in your hearts.
It is hard to put this book down. I found great sobs welling up inside of me for these people as a huge tsunami destroyed their village, killed a third of their people and left them with absolutely nothing!
Grant Hoatson, Ed.D.
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