Numbering more than 24,600 inhabitants, Pinyin is situated in Santa Subdivision, in Mezam Division.

They share boundaries with six villages in three provinces; in the North West, with Bali Nyonga, Baforchu, Awing, and Ashong; Bamumbu (Mundani) in the South West Province, and Babadjou in the Western Province. Pinyin is a language of the Ngemba language cluster. About 80% of the people earn their living from the sales of agricultural produce such as Irish potatoes, maize and vegetables. They have a taste for social activities such as dancing and demonstrate a strong sense of community. Pinyin has five fondoms with a paramount Fon at the head.

About 46% are church-goers, and committed to church activities. 54% are committed to traditional religion. The main denominations here include Presbyterian, Apostolic, Baptist, Deeper Life, and Full Gospel.

The community ap-proached CABTAL, who re-sponded by training a pioneer in 2003 and sending him to mo-bilise the community and share the vision of Bible translation with church leaders.

The community has three local Committees: the Inter Church Committee (ICC), which regroups the churches of the area; the Translation Com-mittee, which provides daily supervision to the project; and the Pinyin Language Develop-ment Committee, which pro-motes the development of the language. The ICC has selected project workers whom they have sent to various training sessions. They have been mobilising prayer and finances for the support of the project.

The ongoing activities include linguistic research, Bible translation, literacy ma-terial development, literacy classes, vision sharing, and community mobilisation. About 30% of the New Testa-ment has been translated. The deadline for the project has been set for 2013. The people are anxiously waiting for the Jesus Film as they want to hear Jesus speaking their language. The literacy rate in English is about 25%.