I thought only experts with PhDs could translate the Bible. How can we know church-based translations are trustworthy?
When we demonstrated how they could align their translations with Burmese, we got gasps!
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 […]
“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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Tara’s first experience with the Bible in her language was with the book of Job. Up to that point, her life had been so difficult, she said, “It felt like I had written it. It felt like they were my words. I had lost everything.”
“Wow,” said the pastor/translator. “I’ve studied this passage for years in the national language, but I never really understood it until I read it like this in my language! Thank you!” Every time we interview someone newly involved in Church-Centric Bible Translation using the tools we provide, we hear the same story: The translation Book […]
One of the many rewards of partnership in the Church-Centric Bible Translation movement is having a front-row seat to remarkable advances in Bible translation brought on by empowering the global church for quality Bible translation. An essential part of that task is sharing unfoldingWord’s open-license Strategic Language Resources (SLR) with our brothers and sisters in […]
A major scholar said it would take 40 years and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars! That seemed impossible to us.”