Caption: Kaiwá evangelist Dorival Silva poses for a photo with his wife Estela against the textured background of their shed. Dorival talks about how important the Kaiwá Bible translation is for his ministry. During the interview he says: “With my work as an evangelist I encourage Kaiwá people to use the scripture. People are literally leaving off their habits which are destructive to them, breaking, fighting, that kind of thing. Even until now, the Bible needs to penetrate even more, all of the people who speak Kaiwá, it needs to go deep within us.” “We really like the Psalms and Proverbs. Before, when the Psalms were only in Portuguese we could not understand them - words like intercession and transgression. For us we did not know what these words meant. We didn't know. But today we know! I love Psalm 1 that says we are compared to a tree that is planted by living water. That is so beautiful to me. It really opened my understanding of God. It gives a deeper understanding of who God really is. When we received parts of the Old Testament, the psalms and proverbs too, it was like someone took a huge light and put it up high and said, ‘Oh! Look all around here! Here is something you did not know before.’ Now that we have the Psalms, that is helping me so much in my work. And so when I think then that all of a sudden there's going to be Genesis to Revelation, I feel really happy inside. It's very good. It tastes good to see this happen. So I am jumping up and down with happiness because it is really beautiful, it is almost ready.”
Photographer: Elyse Patten
City: Dourados
Country: Brazil

Copyright: Wycliffe Global Alliance 
Photo Taken: 05/08/2013
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