Author: Jesse Griffin
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Amazing Grace
Grace,* married at age 14 and a mother of two soon after, suffered physical abuse, endured the humiliation of an unfaithful husband, and finally fled to save her life. Divorce forced her to the fringes of her Islamic society, cleaning houses, begging on the streets, and doing anything to earn a living. *Pseudonyms used for…
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Saved While Escaping
“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. “But God amazingly changed all that.” Siroos Torabi is the Bible translation team leader for Transform Iran, unfoldingWord’s Iranian Whole Bible Whole Nation…
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Man on the Run
Asim* serves on the Bible translation audio-video team for unfoldingWord’s Whole Bible, Whole Nation partner in Sudan. They use Bible translation as part of their church-planting strategy for 133 unreached Sudanese people groups living in refugee settlements. Their Great Commission work impacts 44 million people. Asim’s team produces audio versions of unfoldingWord® Open Bible Stories,…
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Jeremiah and the Occult King
When Jeremiah* first heard that his Chadian church-planting network needed his help translating unfoldingWord® Open Bible Stories (OBS), he was skeptical. “I thought Bible stories were for children, like the stories Grandma and Grandpa told around the fire.” But when he first read Open Bible Stories, he thought, “This is brilliant! It tells the whole…
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The Exponential Journey
Suddenly, a man toward the back of the room began weeping audibly. I thought, uh oh, what have I done? His name is Faheem.
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Will AI Eliminate Human Translators?
Will Artificial Intelligence accelerate Bible translation? Will it produce better translations than humans can? Will it eliminate the need for human translators? These and other questions swirl around discussions of Bible translation in the AI era. Birch Champeon of unfoldingWord’s Tools and Technology Innovation team outlines three critical points in our approach to using AI.…
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The Market Evangelist
Christian* slung his satchel over his shoulder, swung his leg over his bike, and pedaled off for another day of evangelism and outreach in the market. His faith and dedication to reaching his Chadian neighbors had not waned, but he had been frustrated at the tepid response to the gospel. *Pseudonym Chad has 80 distinct…
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Like nothing we’ve ever used
Following an Open Bible Stories community check in Chad, the local imam made an astounding comment, declaring, “If any Muslim says that Jesus is not the savior, he is not a real Muslim, and he should be stoned!” One of our Chadian Bible translation partners was there that day. He explained that, initially, teenagers were…
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Like the man from Macedonia
Greater Reach Alliance reports that Church-Centric Bible Translation gives them the tools they need to reach Muslims in Sudan. Like the man in the Apostle Paul’s dream calling for help in Macedonia, Muslim villages in areas known to be hostile to the gospel are calling for the Bible translation teams to come and share their…
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Progress Against the Odds
In southern India, Hindu nationalists persecute Christian leaders. Families drive from their homes and villages their sons and daughters who convert to Christianity. Courageous evangelists continue preaching the gospel from Hindi versions of the Bible, but they face a problem. “People can understand most of the words,” they said, “but their hearts are not touched…