“He seemed hopeless [with learning to read] but now he’s a reading machine who loves to read. Other older people see him and say, ‘If Ponciano could do it, I could!’” —A literacy team in the Philippines
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“Jesus does not write a book to transmit the good news to succeeding generations. Instead, he chooses, prepares and commissions a community to make the goal of universal history known.” —Mike Goheen
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In an exercise at Camp Week 2020, Adam Boyd gave participants the opportunity to translate the Lord’s Prayer in 15 minutes. Not from Greek. Just from the English we know into English without theological key terms. Now that’s an exercise that would probably be good for you too! Adam shared two talks about translation. Watch
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“The Bible addresses issues that missionaries don’t. People in different situations see things in the Bible that others miss. Missionaries come with a whole load of cultural baggage and they will never be able to see the Bible in the way that people from a very different culture will. By making the Bible available to
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MJM writes from Colombia— Oh the joys of language and culture acquisition! What does it mean when someone sends a Whatsapp message and asks, “Hey, could I come and stay with your family for a couple days?” In light of the fact that the last “couple days” visit ended up lasting a week, what’s the
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“We cannot force someone to hear a message they are not ready to receive. But we must never underestimate the power of planting a seed.” —Elisabeth Elliot
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Joseph* doesn’t care for desk work. He would much rather grow fruit than immerse himself in Hebrew. Instead of laboring over the translation of biblical terms, you are more likely to find him rounding up a swarm of bees with native friends. How does Joseph fit on a Bible translation team? Not just Bible translators
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“One of the great blessings of being involved in Bible translation is that you get to wrestle with expressing God’s word in other languages and as you do, you begin to see things clearly that were, up till that point, somewhat opaque.” —Eddie Arthur
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How did the kind efforts of a group of Americans to build a meetinghouse end up destroying a poor Mexican church? What is so radically different about the church “Hamid” is part of in Southeast Asia, and the blessing they receive from America? How was a chronically impoverished community transformed from asking for handouts to
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“One of the abiding values of language acquisition is developing the capacity to listen well. Most missionary training programs focus almost entirely on teaching missionaries what to say with very little emphasis on learning to listen well. However, as anyone who has been a missionary knows, learning to listen well is one of the important
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