Culture Learning Brings Fresh Insight “Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” ~ Jesus (Matthew 18:3) What exactly was Jesus communicating to His disciples when He gave them this surprising statement? I know there’s been plenty of expounding done […]
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“Every missionary path has to find the way between these two dangers: irrelevance and syncretism. And if one is more afraid of one danger than the other, one will certainly fall into its opposite.” —Lesslie Newbigin
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“Suggesting a primarily oral society should remain in their primary oral communication situation is soft racism. People who promote this don’t realize that such a comment reveals racial bias. Some Africans interpret Western proponents of orality as “white people implying that Africans can be kept in a state of illiteracy because this is their natural
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Note. This story refers to speakers of a small dialect of the much larger Tarahumara language group. To Hear with Their Hearts My family has been living among the Tarahumara people of Northern Mexico for the last number of years, working as church planters. There are only a few thousand speakers of the particular dialect
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Be Thou, oh Father, my strength for the way, Guide me with wisdom and be Thou my stay. Open the door and let no delay, Help us reach heathen, While yet it is day. Be Thou, oh Savior, my Word and my Life, Thy Word incarnate keep me from sin’s strife. Open the door and
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“We are left with the reality that Jesus cared about all the problems of a person. He cares about what people care about and He wants us to care about it too.” —Billy North
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“Translation is a powerful process. It can uncover dimensions of a message which have not been recognized in quite the same way in previous translation processes.” —Darrell Gruder
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Join us in less than a month for a 1-hour update with the Mayangna translation team. Meet the All-Nations members and mother-tongue Mayangna speakers. Tuesday, March 2, 2021, at 7:00 pm EST Check your inbox! If you’re on our email list, you should have received information about how to join. (Don’t see it? Check your
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“Rather than preaching mission, advocating for mission, mobilizing for mission, or revising mission, the biblical injunction is to proclaim, promote, and live the kingdom of God.” —Michael Stroop
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After twenty years “Our first efforts at translating into Mayangna were soon after Ben arrived in the territory in Nicaragua. We felt my people’s desperate need for scriptural teaching material, so we started translating La Antorcha de la Verdad (The Torch of Truth, published by PLM in Costa Rica). “I worked long days in the
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