Uzbekistan Trip Report

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Uzbekistan is the most difficult country among -stan area to work at moment. Foreigners were all gone as government won't issue visa anymore, including Korean missionary who had been working in there over 10 years. But still so many Korean missionaries have been discipling local leaders in each province, they helped us so much to locate right language helper and translation work with each qualified native people as well. Besides we had several very important contacts there.

Most of recordings are Good News and Testimony after translated each language. We edited each language and dialect right after recorded with language helper on the spot in the field.

1. Uzbekistan-GN-woman (Very famous announcer)
2. Karakalpakistan-GN-man
3. Uzbekistan-GN-man (famous powerful Evanzelist)
4. Luli-GN-man (Gypsy)
5. Uzbekistan-Testimony-man (powerful Evangelist)
6. Horazm-GN-woman (majored at Linguistics)

We, Korean recordists have not recorded Good News almost while recording Words Of Life in the field, it would be effective evangelizing material if it is made DVD/VCD or VHS of Good News and combine Words Of Life in mp3 file along with Good News VCD/DVD. it is simple work to duplicate with low cost and we may bring only data file in memory chip or mobile hard disk with us. We showed our Good News VCD in Russian which we made in Korea to each language helper and interpreter who understand Russian and most of them were impressed.

We traveled to Bukhara via Samarkand where it was 600km away from Tashkend and found small Jewish village but to our regret most of them already moved to Israel and left small number therefore could not locate language helper to work this time. And also we could not record old northern Korean dialect finally because most of 1st migrated people were gone too old, but we will try to find them somewhere in Russia later.

Three of Luli Gypsy leaders who involved to record were accepted Christ Jesus as their personal Savior after heard the edited Good News message, it took us one week to finish.

Words Of Life scripts in Russian which we brought were not enough suitable contents to Islamic people and it was short of time for us to translate into Luli dialect and others while we were staying there. We have to prepare more suitable scripts to Islamic in the near future.

Korean missionary from Kyrgyzstan called us several times at Tashkent come to their place to record 'Dungan' minority, we will trip to them later after sufficient preparation. Dungan is spoken primarily in Kyrgyzstan, with speakers in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Russia as well. The Dungan ethnic group are the descendants of refugees from China Hui minority-Islamic (9,800,000) who migrated west into Central Asia.

Barnabas Cho/Joy/Andrew
ARM staff