STUDENT INTERN FEATURE!!! Karima from Tyndale University, Toronto!

Tyndale University College, Toronto

I had the privilege of doing Karima Horton’s internship orientation and training recently!

Karima has recently finished her first year of linguistics at Tyndale and is heading to work with the Cameroon Association of Bible Translation and Literacy (CABTAL) for June and July. She will be serving in Scripture Use activities in the Lamnso’ language project in the Northwest Province. The New Testament has been completed and local translators are finishing the Old Testament .  Much of her desire to do an internship with Wycliffe comes from a desire to discover what global ministry is like overseas and how she can apply her love for linguistics. She writes:

“ I have always had a knack for languages and I always really loved studying them, and now, with just two semesters of studying, I know even more about languages than ever before and am capable of breaking down a language into it’s basic structure with just a few short sentences. How cool is that? So cool. So cool.And now I get to go to Africa and put all my studies to the test outside of the classroom!!”

Karima also shares how passionate she is for Bible translation and her strong belief in the potential that exists among minority language communities. She writes:

“As English speakers, we often forget what it is like to not be able to have access to information. If someone asks if we’ve read something, we haven’t not because it isn’t available to us in English but because we’re not interested (or we’re too lazy to go get the book). The Lamnso’ did not even have a written language until someone cared enough to help them analyze their language and  showed them the Bible. This is a life-changing event!! The translators have done even more than bring the Bible!  The Lamnso’ people now have a way of writing down their thoughts, writing down their history. They now have a place in the world which will never be forgotten. They don’t feel like just a small language group anymore, but as a people with things to say and ideas they can write down. The next Shakespeare may very well come from this community, and it will be with only a small amount of outside help. Don’t you want to be a part of that?”

Please keep Karima in your prayers!  You can follow her blog at karimahorton.blogspot.com