Botswana is a country that is known for its vast Kalahari Desert. Covering up to 70 percent of the country's land surface, its name in a local language means "the great thirst" and "a waterless place." But just like literal thirst, people in Botswana are spiritually thirsty for God's Word in their own language.

New Tes­ta­ments com­pleted by, or in co­op­er­a­tion with, the Cameroon As­so­ci­a­tion for Bible Trans­la­tion and Lit­er­acy (CAB­TAL) sit on a shelf.

Cameroon is lo­cated along the west coast of Cen­tral Africa, bor­der­ing the At­lantic Ocean. Home to 24 mil­lion peo­ple, it is of­ten re­ferred to as “Africa in minia­ture” be­cause all of Africa’s land­scapes can be found there: a beau­ti­ful coast­line, soar­ing moun­tains, dis­sected plateaus, lush rain­for­est and arid plains. It even has an ac­tive volcano.

Not only is the coun­try di­verse ge­o­graph­i­cally, it is di­verse lin­guis­ti­cally. More than 270 lan­guages are spo­ken in Cameroon.

CAB­TAL, the Wycliffe Global Al­liance or­ga­ni­za­tion in Cameroon, has been ac­tive in Bible trans­la­tion for al­most 30 years. In the past two years, eight trans­la­tion pro­jects have been com­pleted and sev­eral more are near­ing the fin­ish line. Yet around 100 trans­la­tions still need to be­gin so that all Cameroo­ni­ans can ac­cess God’s Word in the lan­guage that best meets their needs.

Pray for the per­son­nel and fi­nan­cial re­sources needed to be able to see the Bible avail­able and used by all the lan­guage com­mu­ni­ties of Cameroon.

Read about how CAB­TAL is part­ner­ing with the Cameroon Bap­tist The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary to pre­pare trans­la­tors through a Bach­e­lor of Arts in Bible Trans­la­tion program.