The Swo Need the Gospel

Pastor Ossimba explains why the Gospel is needed among the Swo in their language. The first reason is that they don't understand Bulu well enough and the other is that they are so poorly taught through that language that they get the wrong meaning as often as the right one. During a Christmas service, Swo children were asked to recite verses from the Bible, and one chose the passage about the baby Jesus being laid in the manger "where animals ate their food". The child, speaking in Bulu, something quite different, that he was laid in the manger "where the cattle killed and ate people." The Pastor surmised that the children probably thought that surviving the evil cattle was Christ's first miracle.