Every person in the world needs the Bible in the language they understand best
You can help equip churches worldwide to translate scripture accurately and make disciples of Jesus
The Church is multiplying around the world, but …
Christians worldwide are facing a huge barrier, not having Scripture available in the language they understand best.
You can help us change this story for the millions who are still waiting for Scripture to come to their language.
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God is at work…
Here’s how God is using Church-Centric Bible Translation around the world…
Chad
When Jeremiah* first heard that his Chadian church-planting network needed his help translating unfoldingWord® Open Bible Stories (OBS), he was skeptical.
Sudan
Asim’s team produces audio versions of unfoldingWord® Open Bible Stories, a strategic outreach tool for oral cultures. That he is alive is a miracle.
Middle East
“I was a terrible husband for the first fifteen years of our marriage. Every weekend, I would get drunk, abuse my wife, and ridicule her. We mistreated each other terribly,” said Siroos.
The unfolding of your words gives light.
Psalm 119:130
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Ibrahim from South Sudan says, “Checking translations by hand is very slow. translationCore is the fastest Bible translation checking software that we have ever seen. With this tool, we can check three chapters in a day. Plus, we can check the accuracy of our work because it aligns our translation with the original languages.”
Faster translations in South Sudan
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Charles and his team are working on five strategic languages in which Islam has recently made inroads. “Our people are story-crazy people. unfoldingWord® Open Bible Stories overcomes their hostility to the message of Christ. Also, churches working with unfoldingWord materials in local languages have experienced significant spiritual and numerical growth.”
Charles from Benin
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“Up to now, we’ve only had a Farsi Bible to read, but as we translate God’s Word into my heart language, the Word communicates with me in a completely different way. I want all my people to hear God’s Word like this!”
Iranian Whole Bible, Whole Nation translator:
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“The movement of God’s global Church engaging in Bible Translation is not just a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It’s really a once-in-eternity opportunity that unfoldingWord is part of. It is a joy for Wycliffe to learn and journey with you all in this process.”
John Chesnut, Wycliffe Bible Translators
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I’m so grateful that unfoldingWord is helping us identify those least-reached areas of need and equipping the indigenous church to serve as God desires and to reach that next person in places that have been closed to historic translation models in the past!
Geof Morin – Biblica
