Rochunga Pudaite

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After studies at Allahabad University in his native India and at Wheaton College in the U.S.A., Rochunga Pudaite (1948- ) translated the Bible into the Hmar language and in 1971 founded Bibles for the World.

At the close of the 19th century, the British branded the Hmar people of northeast India as "the worst headhunters." At the time it was a well-deserved label.

Then, in 1910, a copy of the New Testament Gospel of John arrived in the area where the tribal group lived, changing the course of history for the Hmar people. Through that one copy of John's Gospel, Chawnga, the father of Rochunga Pudaite, was introduced to a revolutionary "new life in Christ." Chawnga and a few tribesmen "forsook all and followed Christ."

Chawnga believed that his son, Rochunga, was God's chosen instrument to bring the Scriptures to the Hmar tribe in their own language.

Rochunga Pudaite's biography is recounted in James Hefley's book God's Tribesman: the Rochunga Pudaite Story (Holman, 1977) Joe Musser's book Fire on the Hill (Tyndale House Publishers, 1998) and in the film Beyond the Next Mountain.

Pudaite is the author of My Billion Bible Dream (Thomas Nelson, 1982) and The Greatest Book Ever Written (Hannibal Books, 1989).