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Paving the Path
More than half of Papua New Guinea’s 820 languages still do not have a single verse of Scripture, making it one of the top countries of greatest need for Bible translation. Duncan Kasokason is leading the way for other local consultants in Bible translation.
Read More“Put Us Anywhere”
Many people think that mission workers need to be preachers, teachers, doctors, or nurses to serve overseas. But Tony and Martha Hinton—a trained auto mechanic and a speech pathologist—prove that God can use people who are willing to go where He sends them—no matter what their skills are.
Read MoreInnovative approach helps missionary kids “hunger for school”
Modular Study Groups (MSGs) are a non-traditional approach to education that looks quite different from typical Western-style classrooms.
Read MoreWycliffe’s Arsenault shares in top award
Dr. Paul Arsenault, a Wycliffe Canada member and faculty member of the Canada Institute of Linguistics (CanIL), has been awarded a top prize from the Journal of the International Phonetic Association. Arsenault co-authored Kalasha (Bumburet Variety) with Alexei Kochetov, Jan Heegård Petersen, Sikandar Kalas and Taj Khan Kalash. Arsenault, an assistant professor of linguistics serving…
Read More“YWAM has people”. . . and a big vision
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.
Read More“Now I know what to read in our mosque!”
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.
Read MoreWeaving a beautiful translation
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.
Read MoreWord Search: Not your ordinary garden
A translation team in Tanzania was working on translating “Garden of Eden,” but the Swahili word the translators had considered just wasn’t adequate.
Read MoreSaved by a former enemy
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.
Read MoreBloom software helps blind and visually impaired
A 2019 pilot project in the Philippines resulted in digital books for the blind and visually impaired.
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