The document discusses the urgent need for Bible translation in over 6,900 languages, highlighting that many communities are left without God's word. It emphasizes the impact of language barriers on understanding scripture, citing personal testimonies about the clarity gained from translations. The goal is to initiate a Bible translation project for every language in need by 2025 in collaboration with global partners.

1. Luke & Laura

2. Luke & Laura
initial assignment:

3. Luke & Laura
initial assignment:
Papua New Guinea

4. John
Wycliffe

5. Cameron Townsend (1896 - 1982)

6. Cameron Townsend (1896 - 1982)
“If your God is so
great, why doesn’t
He speak my
language?”

7. How many languages have
God’s Word?

8. How many languages have
God’s Word?
Complete
Bible 450

9. How many languages have
God’s Word?
Complete
Complete New
Bible 450 Testament
1200

10. How many languages have
God’s Word?
Some
Scripture
900
Complete
Complete New
Bible 450 Testament
1200

11. Did you know
that there are
over 6,900
language
communities in
the world!?!

12. Leaving thousands
without God’s Word...
Some
Scripture 900
Complete New
Complete Bible Testament 1200
450

13. Leaving thousands
without God’s Word...
In progress
1500
Some
Scripture 900
Complete New
Complete Bible Testament 1200
450

14. Leaving thousands
without God’s Word...
In progress
No work 1500
begun
2,400
Some
Scripture 900
Complete New
Complete Bible Testament 1200
450

16. 300 million people
without any scripture in
their language.
Each year, 2.5 million
people die without ever
having heard the gospel
in their language.

17. Bible-less people
80% of remaining need

18. Why bother?

19. Why bother?

21. “When did
He die?
No one
told me!”

22. “All these years I’ve thought I really
understood the Bible. But now I realize
that so much of what I’ve read in the
national language Bible has not been
communicating to me clearly. I feel that I
have spent my life seeing the Bible by
moonlight—as if seeing the shapes and
shadows of things, but not the details of
what is really there.
Now it is as if someone has turned a huge
spotlight on the Scriptures. For the first time in
my life I can see clearly what is in the Bible.”

25. “How long have you had
this Book?

26. “How long have you had
this Book?
Did your father have it?

27. “How long have you had
this Book?
Did your father have it?
Did your grandfather
have it?

28. “How long have you had
this Book?
Did your father have it?
Did your grandfather
have it?
Why has it taken so
long for you to share it
with us?”

29. By 2025, together with
partners worldwide, we
aim to see a Bible
translation project
started in every language
that needs one.

30. 1 Corinthians 14:10-12
"Undoubtedly there are a great many languages in the
world, yet none of them is without meaning. If then I do
not grasp the meaning of what someone is saying, I am a
foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me."

31. Eight and a half thousand miles...

32. PNG
Wewak

40. Together...

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