Over the past months we sometimes questioned whether the new All-Nations building would become a reality. Navigating agricultural zoning requirements and our needs as an organization was not easy!
God kept turning all the stoplights green, and we are making plans to build. Thank you for...
"We [the church] are invited to participate in an activity of God which is the central meaning of creation itself. We are invited to become, through the presence of the Holy Spirit, participants in the Son’s loving obedience to the Father. All things have been created that they may be summed up...
We are preparing to send out our Summer Newsletter! If you have not been receiving our newsletters in the mail, go to the following link and sign up by August 5 to get on this mailing list. https://allnationsbt.org/connect/stay-informed...
"Poverty is the result of relationships that do not work, that are not just, that are not for life, that are not harmonious or enjoyable. Poverty is the absence of shalom in all its meanings." —Bryant L. Myers
"...as I began to learn about suffering I learned that trust in those strong arms means that even our suffering is under control. We are not doomed to meaninglessness. A loving Purpose is behind it all, a great tenderness even in the fierceness." —Elisabeth Elliot
We are helping to fund a Hebrew lesson series in BibleLing, a free suite of biblical-language tools.
“For whatever one may say of the (ultimate) unattainability of translation, it is and remains nonetheless one of the weightest and worthiest occupations in the overall being of the world (i.e., for humanity).” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1820; translated from German
Last week Lynelle and I, with two of our children, visited several ABT members who are deep into the study of everything linguistic at SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) on the campus of University of North Dakota. Every year we try to have an ABT representative spend a day or two on campus...
"Words are not coins, dead things whose value can be mathematically computed. You cannot quote an exact English equivalent for a French word, as you might quote an exact English equivalent for a French coin. Words are living things, full of shades of meaning, full of associations; and, what is...
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. The opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”—Elie Wiesel
