The Huila Cluster is made up of three languages: !Xun, Oluhanda and Olucilenge. The !Xun are an extremely isolated Bushmen group that have largely been without any Christian witness until recently. They are scattered across Angola, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. Until 2023 the communities of Oluhanda and Olucilenge have been coming together with the !Xun speakers in the Huila province of Angola four times a year to collaborate on their respective Bible translations. In 2023 they continued as stand-alone translation projects.

Pastor Dungodungo said that he and his evangelism team were able to tell some of the Bible narratives in three different communities, at times, to groups of over 100 people. He was very positive about the impact they were having. According to the communities, the fact that the Bible is in their mother languages leads them to know that God loves them and is interested in them personally. This opens the door for the gospel to be presented more effectively in these communities. 

These three translation projects faced some delays getting started due to various challenges, including technical difficulties with the translation software they are using. But they are all making progress again, with the !Xun and Olucilenge teams well on their way to completing Genesis. The Oluhanda team is still struggling with software challenges.

For more updates and prayer requests for each project, please see their individual pages, linked at the top of this page.