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A Bible Aborigines have been asking for

9:24pm Thursday, 3rd November 2011  

Karen Mudge

A new Bible for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders will be launched on Sunday November 6 in Gladstone Square in Port Augusta South Australia

The Bible is called the Easy Reading Family Bible and has been developed by Bible Society Australia in partnership with the national Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Ministry (ATSIM) team. The Bible is the Contemporary English Version and is in large print, which was asked for by the Aboriginal community.  It features dynamic colour illustrations, with artwork produced by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. ATSIM is a part of the Seventh Day Adventist church, and the Bible was dedicated at its mid-year Australian Union Conference Board of Directors meeting.

Steve Piez, National ATSIM director, says, “The response to the Bible has been overwhelming. We are very excited about our latest resource and believe that it will be used by all Australians, and will lead many people to Jesus. It was a privilege to work on this project”.

The Easy Reading Family Bible is a “user friendly” translation designed to inspire more Indigenous Australians to engage with God’s word and contains contextualised colour prints, pages for recording family events, a number of short introductory readings intended to build faith, along with a full-colour Bible Encyclopaedia.