Cameroon: pioneer killed

Wycliffe Bible Translators  |  World
Date posted:  1 Dec 2019
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Cameroon: pioneer killed

Benjamin Tem at work

One of the first translators of the Bible for the Aghem people in Cameroon was murdered during a violent attack on his village on 20 October.

He is the second member of the translation team killed in recent months. Angus Fung, a literacy coordinator in the same village in the Wum area of Cameroon, was murdered a few months prior to the October attack.

Benjamin Tem was one of the original cohort of trained translation workers on the Aghem Bible translation project. In publishing over 3,000 copies of the New Testament, he helped his people to read and discover the life-changing message about Jesus; through his efforts many started studying the Bible in small groups, hearing God speak to them in their own language for the first time. Benjamin leaves behind a wife and five children.

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