Impact

“How will going through the book of Genesis help to disciple this man? Usually you start [discipling new believers] in John’s Gospel or something like that.”

Leonard Bolioki understands just how powerful translated Scripture is. During a Good Friday service at his church in Cameroon, he began to read the story of Jesus’ crucifixion. In previous years, the congregation had heard the story in French. But…

God works in many ways to reveal His love for people: through acts of kindness, a word timely spoken, and truth from the Bible. One Christian Uzbek woman could never have imagined what an unexpected visit from a neighbour in…

One day, two Bible translators came to visit. They brought booklets, called The Christmas Story, in the mother tongue of the villagers. The entire community was invited to hear the story.

For many elderly people in minority language groups around the world, God’s Word is only now coming to them in a language they can understand. They are learning about faith in Christ in their sunset years.

A good example is an African man in his 80s named Taapro, living on the Ndop Plain of Cameroon. He was known as a liar and a thief, and he feared traditional spirits.

When Matilde decided to attend a literacy class based on Bible readings in Cusco Quechua, her mother tongue, her husband taunted her.

“Even though I had heard the Word of God before,” says Emmanuel, “it had never spoken to my heart . . . as it did when I started hearing it being read to me in my mother tongue.”

One of the tribesmen who helped translate the Scriptures for the Kalinga people in the northern Philippines was named Biano. As a Wycliffe linguist was preparing to return to Australia for a time, he expressed curiosity about why Biano never questioned the Scriptures.

With a happy grin and sweat pouring down his face, Pey* was the first to arrive at the Scripture-checking meeting each morning. He left home before four a.m. and returned after nightfall, a grueling four-hour hike (with an elevation gain…

A trauma healing facilitator is crediting his training on how to listen to distressed people for preventing a murder in the town of Rungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. After attending the training seminar, the facilitator (a pastor who wishes…