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Why the Tarahumara Need a Bible
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Note. This story refers to speakers of a small dialect of the much larger Tarahumara language group.

To Hear with Their Hearts

Giving Thanks with the Mayangna Translators
Thursday, January 28, 2021

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...

Team Launch in Progress
Sunday, November 1, 2020

What is Team Launch? It is a 6-week stay here at the All-Nations base with your future team just before heading to the field. In our case the destination is Chihuahua State, Mexico to work among the Tarahumara people.

What is the reason for Team Launch? There are 3 main goals for this...

An Open Door for the Mixtec
Thursday, October 1, 2020

Weekly in our little town in southern Mexico, early on Tuesday, we hear a distant airhorn. The “toot-toot” gets closer until finally it is at our door. It is a good sound: the trash truck! When it comes, we simply run the trash barrel out to the big stinky dump truck, toss the trash up to the...

Oh the Joys of Culture
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

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...

God Is Building the Mixtec Team
Friday, November 1, 2019

by the Wagoners

Teaming up for God's work

Wednesday at Phase II Training
Friday, November 1, 2019

Today was a day of contingency training with Reagan, about "Risk and Incident" management. This day of training, unlike most, includes concepts that we hope the team never needs to practice! It included some very practical guidance and preparation for responding to hostage threats or incidents....

Crippled Disciples: the Mayangna Story
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

This colorful and often discouraging story of evangelism, Bible translation, church life—and syncretism—among a language group in Nicaragua presents a powerful case for faithfulness in every way as we reach out to the unreached. With poignant personal stories, Ben introduces us to the...

The Mayangna: A People in Crisis
Sunday, September 1, 2019

The Mayangna people of Nicaragua have felt their vulnerability for many years. Now, as war rages throughout the country, they are not sure if they will survive. God cares for the oppressed, the underprivileged, the voiceless. How would He have His people respond?

The Mayangna used...

"Peace Deal"? Pray for Colombia!
Friday, March 1, 2019

In 2016, our newsletter reported on peace talks underway between Colombia's government and the country's largest guerrilla group known as FARC. A peace deal did eventually go through, but how is it really working out?

Especially, what are the implications for God's children and messengers...

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  • “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17
  • “Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witness of these things.” Luke 24:47, 48
  • “Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations.” Matthew 28:19
  • “In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:3
  • “That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the Gospel.” Ephesians 3:6
  • “That they all may be one; as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us; that the world may believe that You sent Me.” John 17:21
  • “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’?” Mark 11:17
  • “Ask of me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance.” Psalm 2:8
  • “Behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes.” Revelation 7:9
  • “Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified.” 2 Thessalonians 3:1
  • “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” 2 Timothy 3:16
  • “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Psalm 119:105
  • “As cold water to a weary soul, so is good news from a far country.” Proverbs 25:25
  • “More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.” Psalm 19:10
  • “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before You.” Psalm 22:27
  • “Truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.” Numbers 14:21
  • “Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples. For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.” Psalm 96:3, 4
  • “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” Habakkuk 2:14
  • “That all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other.” 1 Kings 8:60
  • “For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great among the Gentiles; in every place incense shall be offered to My name, and a pure offering; for My name shall be great among the nations.” Malachi 1:11
  • “All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name.” Psalm 86:9
  • “For as the earth brings forth its bud, as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.” Isaiah 61:11
  • "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!" Psalm 46:10
  • "This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." 1 Timothy 2:3, 4
  • "You are worthy. . .; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priests to our God." Revelation 5:9, 10
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