Sunday, April 8, 2007

Da Jesus Book

A guy I work with is Hawaiian and just returned from a vacation back home. When he returned he begin dispensing gifts. Golf balls, little hula dancers in grass skirts, macadamia nuts cookies, you know the fair. But when he gave me my gift I was awe struck. He gave a me a Bible, a Hawaii Pidgin New Testament! Here is the "Lord's Prayer" in Pidgin:

“God, you our Fadda.
You stay inside da sky.
We like all da peopo know fo shua how you stay,
An dat you stay good an spesho,
An we like dem give you plenny respeck.
We like you come King fo everybody now.
We like everybody make jalike you like,
Ova hea inside da world,
Jalike da angel guys up inside da sky make jalike you like.

Give us da food we need fo today an every day.
Hemmo our shame, an let us go
Fo all da kine bad stuff we do to you,
Jalike us guys let da odda guys go awready,
And we no stay huhu wit dem
Fo all da kine bad stuff dey do to us.
No let us get chance fo do bad kine stuff,
But take us outa dea, so da Bad Guy no can hurt us.
Cuz you our King.
You get da real power,
An you stay awesome foeva.
Dass it!”

Here is John 3:16:

"God wen get so plenny love an aloha
fo da people inside da world,
dat he wen sen me,
his one an ony boy,
so dat everybody dat trus me no get cut off from God,
but get da real kine life dat stay to da max foeva."


This is so great!

1 comment:

Dustin said...

that's so great. i love it.

raise some support already so you can help me figure out how to be a good pastor!!!