Impact

While Budy was working in a village 85 km from his home, recording the “JESUS” film, a massive 7.5 earthquake hit his home city in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Maximiliana thought attending church was a waste of time—until literacy skills taught by ATEK helped her understand the Scriptures.

Commissioned by Wycliffe Russia, three men on a language survey team were sent to learn more about the Nanai people of Siberia and their language.

I had a firm conviction that God was in a hurry to save the Canelas and all the rest of the world and that therefore, I should be too.

Christmas was coming. On the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of West Africa, the Cape Verdean translation team was hard at work translating the Gospel of Luke into their mother tongue: Kabuverdianu. When they completed the first two chapters, they gave a copy to their pastor to review.

After his wife died, Militon had a dream in which his wife appeared to him. “Don’t travel the trail that I’m travelling on now,” she told him.

An angry young man named Ricardo burned down a missionary couple’s house. But after he found a Bible that had survived the fire and slipped it into his pocket, everything changed.

Church leaders and others tried to help Max and Daniel reconcile. Even so, the twin brothers’ refused to forgive one another.

Feeling a canopy of darkness hovering over the room, Marilyn prayed to God to protect her from any spirits connected to the fetishes: “Please, Lord Jesus, you are more powerful than these fetishes. You can command the spirits they serve. Please protect me.”

“I lived hand to mouth doing many jobs. Finally I ended up as a soldier. In the army, I learned how to be tough: to fight, and even to kill.”