Our friend Kwefi — a young, local Christian mother — had just died in childbirth, and I was angry. “Why, God? Why did you let her die?” I yelled. I was desperate and insistent for answers.

Though South Asia can be a challenging region of the world for Christians to serve faithfully in ministry, Bible translation is moving forward and God is blessing His people.

Forty-six countries have five or more languages still needing Bible translation to begin, totalling 1,142 languages. YWAM has people in every one of those countries — including mother-tongue speakers for about 200 of the languages.

When I gave [the mullah] a copy of the New Testament in Uzbek he took it, touched it with his lips and forehead and finally held it close to his heart.

In awe. That’s how I often feel when our team is working on the translation of God’s Word into the Kisun* language, in the Caucasus region.

A translation team in Tanzania was working on translating “Garden of Eden,” but the Swahili word the translators had considered just wasn’t adequate.

“When [God] chose my great-grandfather, he wasn’t just choosing an individual, but the generations coming afterward that would continue in that work.”

Globally in 2020, digital Scriptures in 1,968 languages became available on various sites and apps.

While I was cutting a tree, the trunk fell on my right leg. It fractured my bones and ripped open my flesh from heel to knee. I couldn’t get up, or walk.

Acknowledge the very real darkness of this world and you’ll have eyes to see Advent through the same lens as the people waiting for a Messiah thousands of years ago.