Joan Andersen is the Chair of the NL Moravian Church.

She says the idea of re-newing the translations of the original 7 testaments from 1871 came about quite a few years ago.

The idea to make a change in the written language was that so people can read the Bible in Inuktitut better.

She says the translators who did an excellent job include: K. Naeme Tuglavina of Nain, Amos Onalik of Hopedale, Sophie Tuglavina of of Makkovik, Hilda Lyall, Andrea Webb, Sarah Townley of Happy Valley and also Sabina Hunter who was the co-ordinator of the project.

The church held a public meeting in Nain last evening, and the issues discussed was update on new minister staff and training, Heritage issues on the Moravian Church Buildings, and what was lost in the fire when the Nain Manse burnt down.

Andersen says even though some artifact written scripts was lost in the fire, they are happy because there was no loss of life.

She is also happy to say that during one of Dr. Hans Rolhman trips to Nain, he had made a visit to the Manse and came across some of the artifacts, and from there had decided to photograph some of the pieces, except that he regret not to have taken photos of all the past autographs on what the visitors wrote from the past.

Andersen says the board wants to purchase a fire proof cabinet for the Church archives and to act now, and to send a written proposal letter to the Tessiujatsuak Trust Fund to build a new Manse in Nain.