"So where’s the link between Bible translation and literacy? Through a holistic approach, literacy restores and strengthens basic human identity by linking people to their true identity in Christ through interaction with God in His Word. Literacy provides a means of restored dignity through the...
#TranslationTuesday
"Wisdom says: leave success ratings to God, and live your Christianity as a religion of faithfulness rather than an idolatry of achievement."
— J. I. Packer
“Reading the Indonesian translation was like reading in moonlight. We were only getting bits and pieces. Now in Kupang Malay, it’s like reading in bright sunshine. We see so much more.”
— Indigenous pastor, quoted by Gilles Gravelle
“...Pastors and churches had to preach in French. Many speakers of regional languages don’t understand, thinking God is the God of other people. But now, when we hear Scripture in Obamba, we know: God speaks my language! He’s our God, too!”
— Prescillia, a lady from Africa
“We are praying that God will send young men and women who will be obedient, out of love to see this job done, regardless of the hardships they will encounter. One must count the cost and be prepared to live a life of toil, loneliness, and danger. Your work may carry you far from comforts and...
"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity."
— Mike Stachura
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
— C.S. Lewis
“Almost without exception, missionary-evangelists who are successful in planting new churches have the backing of sending churches. Why? Because missionary-evangelists sent by Christian churches (as opposed to those who are sent by individual Christians or institutions, or those who go on their...
"I believe that we have only begun to scratch the surface of the possibilities of the power of God, of what He can do, what He intends to do."
— Cameron Townsend, founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators
There are no closed doors to the gospel—provided that, once you get inside, you don't care if you ever come out.
—Brother Andrew