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Rhodes, Jim Roberts, Doug Sampson, Keith Snider, Jürg Stalder, John Stewart, Rhonda
Thwing, Dick Watson, and Kay Williamson. I especially thank John Hajek for working
with me on the labial flap project. I hope to meet you face to face some day!
My fellow students in the Department of Linguistics have been an encouragement
to me along the way. Joanna Lowenstein and Tami Wysocki deserve special thanks for
reading and commenting on several of the chapters. Also, thanks to Kati Gruber, Derrick
Higgins, and Tami Wysocki for a great year as co-officers for CLS.
Thanks to past and present members of the Western Congo Group of SIL: Richard
and Trish Aze, Margaret Hill, Jim Fultz, Beat and Robyn Kunz, David and Sharon
Morgan, JeDene Reeder, Ken Satterberg, Will and Judith Sawers, Harold and Ginny
Smith, and Elaine Thomas. Special thanks to Brian and Barb Schrag, my colleagues on
the Mono project, for your friendship and patience. I could not ask for better people to
work with.
Thanks to the members of the missionary community in northwestern Congo,
including the Covenant Church, the Free Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and
Mission Aviation Fellowship. I will never forget how kind and generous you all have
been to me.
Thanks to all of the people who prayed for me during my time in Congo and
Chicago. You have played a larger part in this than you realize. I also thank the churches
and individuals who supported me financially while I was in Congo and have continued
to do so during my studies.
I thank the members of the church communities in northwestern Congo for their
hospitality: the Communauté Évangélique du Christ en Ubangi, the Communauté
Évangélique en Ubangi et Mongala, and the Molegbe diocese of the Catholic Church. I
am happy to be partnering with you in the task of Bible translation. I thank Rev. and Mrs.
Godé for being my parents away from home, and Ama Geangozo Mbanza, Kilio
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