Bible translation for Roma
Recent prayer requests
July 28 Pray for God to be very real to each of our children so they will have growing faith & pursue Christian fellowship
Glimmers of Hope: Quarterly Impact Report. Read here: toddlprice.com/blog-2/
July 27 Pray for good weather & great interaction for Pam, Ariela and the American Heritage Girls troop on their 3-day camp out this week
July 26 Praise God that we were warmly welcomed by the children & youth in the new village of Kutina, Croatia, last month
July 25 Pray the Bayash team can successfully produce two translations, for use in two related dialects
July 24 Pray for God’s guidance as we edit verses in Mark & Matthew in Bayash, for a clear, accurate & natural translation
An answer to a years-long prayer... Read here: toddlprice.com/blog-2/
Latest from the blog
Glimmers of Hope: Quarterly Impact Report
Below are excerpts from the exciting quarterly report on progress in Bible translation with our teams and global partners: Dear friends, This quarter’s update shows encouraging progress and extraordinary opportunity. We have now served in 452 Bible translation projects to date, with 444 presently active and 10 full Bible translations completed. Bibleless places are beginning…
An answer to a years-long prayer…
Last week we saw an answer to a years-long prayer request: I had the joy of leading the first Bible translation consultation meeting with the new team (pictured above) translating the New Testament into the Bayash language! As you might recall, from 2014-2018 we worked on translation into Bayash and completed the Gospel of Luke…
When God’s Answer Became Greater Than the Dream
The Roma people discover their identity in Christ through the living Word of God. “I understand everything you are saying.” The man stood up while the passage was being read. For a moment, the room fell silent. “This is very good,” he continued. “We really need this.” For Nikola, it was one of those moments…
Photos from the past few years
Roma (Gypsies) in Europe
There are 12-16 million Roma (Gypsies) in Europe and western Eurasia, scattered throughout 26 countries (including 40 regions or semi-autonomous regions), speaking 90+ languages, and yet only a dozen have the Bible in their Roma language.
Pray for Bible translation for the Roma languages in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Montenegro.
Our Family
Dr. Todd & Pamala Price have served with Pioneers since 1994, in Croatia, Bosnia and Hungary. They have seven children, Timothy, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Matthew, Kirsten, Daniel and Ariela, and live in Belton, Missouri. Pamala enjoys hosting guests in their home, teaching children, encouraging women, and homeschooling the children. Todd is an International Bible Translation Consultant and Regional Consultant Coordinator with The Word for the World Bible Translators. Their passion is to see a Bible translation in the heart language of all Roma (Gypsies) in former Yugoslavia, and to see countless Roma lives transformed through God’s Word. Todd’s BA and MA are in biblical languages and his PhD is in NT Greek and Corpus Linguistics.
See or hear the Roma Bible translations
Here you can see or listen to excerpts of what we have translated so far into five Roma (Gypsy) languages.
Translations in Bajaš
Todd’s Book
Structural Lexicology and the Greek New Testament By Todd Price
This study demonstrates a method for using corpus linguistics to disambiguate polysemes in the Greek New Testament. Included are several examples applying the method to exegetically problematic texts.