“Art forms are just as culturally specific and carry as much meaning as [someone’s] language does.” Learn about how Karen used her love of music and degree in world arts to further the work of Bible translation.
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Did you know that May 21 is World Day of Cultural Diversity? It’s a day set aside to celebrate and appreciate the beauty of cultural diversity around the world.
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What if your willingness to obey God’s calling could change your life and the lives of others for generations to come? That’s exactly what happened to the Stobbe family as they followed God’s call to attend the Urbana student missions conference, propelling three different generations into a legacy of missions.
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The national translation team was impacted from all sides, but through it all they kept working. After 21 years of hard work, the Tembo people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo dedicated their New Testament on Oct. 7, 2017!
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Did you know that there are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world today?
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See how God demonstrated his presence and power to the people of Papua New Guinea through both joy and sorrow.
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A young boy smiles for the photographer in the market in Bori, South Sudan.
The people of South Sudan have rarely known peace. The decades since Sudan’s independence from Britain and then South Sudan’s independence from Sudan have been marked by turmoil and war.
Despite the turbulence, Bible translation has been taking place. The Baka translation began in 1980 in southern Sudan. The team endured civil war, violence, having to flee as refugees, and a kidnapping. Through it all, translation continued, and in March 2017, the Baka community celebrated the launch of the New Testament.
Now that the Baka have God’s Word, “God is not a foreigner anymore. Jesus is one of us. He can talk [our] dialect,” says Pastor Bennett Marona, the translation project manager.
To see more of their story, watch this video about the Baka translation. (Video available in English)
The gift of an unwanted Bible led Wes Reed to faith in Christ. But the power of God’s Word in his own life led Wes to translate the Scriptures for others.
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A team of story crafters from all 12 language groups of the Sepik Nuku Cluster has begun a series of oral storytelling workshops.
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