#CommunityDevelopment
September 26, 2020
“One of the best ways to defeat paternalism is by teaching believers to read.” —Unknown
Quotes
#TranslationTuesday
September 24, 2020
“We have lost the eternal youthfulness of Christianity and have aged into calculating manhood. We seldom pray in earnest for the extraordinary, the limitless, the
#CommunityDevelopment
September 17, 2020
“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
#TranslationTuesday
September 16, 2020
“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
#TranslationTuesday
September 8, 2020
“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
#TranslationTuesday
September 1, 2020
“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.”
#TranslationTuesday
August 25, 2020
“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
#TranslationTuesday
August 18, 2020
“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
#CommunityDevelopment
August 12, 2020
“When we look at the New Testament in its entirety and especially when we start to get to grips with the Old Testament, we see
#TranslationTuesday
August 12, 2020
“You cannot love someone across the border until you have loved someone across the street.” —Jerry Ireland