December 9, 2011

VEHICULAR LANGUAGE – defined in Wikipedia as a “working language, bridge language… used to make communication possible between people not sharing a mother tongue.” Another definition: An open door for Believers in East Africa. Swahili is the ‘official language’ of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Swahili is an accepted ‘national language’, while it is a ‘Vehicular Language’ in Burundi and Rwanda. South Sudan, the world’s newest country, is teaching Swahili in school as a ‘vehicular language’ to supplement Arabic, an official language of Sudan, the country they separated from this year. Praise God today that Believers who have frequent opportunities to work/ study/ etc., in other parts of East Africa, can use Swahili as a ‘vehicular language’ as they serve as our Father’s Heart, Hands and Voice among those in need of His Good News, especially East Africans from People Groups with few Believers! (KINYOZI is Swahili for barber/ hairdresser.)