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‘God is doing far more than we could ask or imagine’
Less than a year ago a chronological Bible storying project was started in South Asia. Already the team has held eight workshops crafting stories in eight languages. With eight more workshops to come...
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When God brings good from bad situations
In December we asked you to pray following the outbreak of fighting in South Sudan. The director Wycliffe’s partner in South Sudan recently visited and gave an update. South Sudan needs our prayers as...
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New prayer resources: Praying for Oral Communities
‘Prayer is the powerhouse of all we do.’ – Stewart Johnson, Wycliffe’s UK church engagement director If you are reading this blog I suspect that you, like us, are already convinced of the importance...
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Proclaiming the word of God
Sometimes translating the Bible is a long process. Take the Bakossi language of Cameroon, for example, the project first started in 1974. The running of the project was taken over by CABTAL* during...
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Wounded people on the road to healing
“Remember your promise to me; it is my only hope. Your promise revives me; it comforts me in all my troubles.” (Psalm 119:49-50). God’s word is full of comfort, guidance, wisdom, and strength. How...
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Communicating the vision
God gives us a vision, an idea, a dream of how he wants us to be part of his plan for this world. However, often we cannot achieve that vision on our own: we need a support team, to finance, to pray...
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God is good
As we approach Christmas and celebrate what God has done for us in sending his son to live on earth and die for us, let’s also take time to pause and consider how God has acted for us this year. Of...
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His faithful love endures forever
‘Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.’I Chronicles 16:34 NLT In God is Good we shared 6 ways that God had demonstrated to us his faithful love through answering...
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When the spoken word is more powerful
Nearly 70% of people in the world are from oral cultures. Even when they can read and write they often prefer to learn through oral means. This means, for Bible translation, that we must find...
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Teaching through Stories
Stories have the amazing ability to take us on a great adventure to make us laugh, make us cry and enrich our thoughts and conversations. They are also some of the most effective ways of teaching....
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It takes time to catch a vision. It’s not true that people everywhere are necessarily desperate to have access to God’s word in their heart language. Even in the UK, how many church-goers have so many...
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The Bible for the unreached
Did you know that there are about 400 sign languages in the world and none of them yet have the whole of the Bible? Deaf Opportunity Outreach (DOOR) International, which has a centre in Kenya, is...
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Where faith comes by hearing: making audio Scriptures in Tanzania
The majority of people in the world belong to oral cultures. For them, faith literally comes by hearing. With this in mind, one of the tools we use to share Scripture with these communities is audio...
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Stopping a snowball in its tracks
When a language dies out, a culture generally dies with it. It’s feared the ancient Nanai language of Russia might be on its way out, as younger generations seem to use it less and less. But...
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Good news travels fast
If you heard a great story, how long would it be before you shared it with someone else? Probably not long. You’d be even quicker to share it if you were from one of the world’s oral cultures. Oral...
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Bible stories come to life
When Banko Myle met a paralysed woman in her Banna village, he told her a story he’d just learned. It was the gospel story of Jesus healing the bleeding woman (Matthew 9). ‘Can that same Jesus heal...
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Resolve to make a difference
Have you made your New Year’s resolutions yet? Often resolutions are made with the aim of personal improvement, to lose weight or get fit or read more. Instead of making a resolution that you benefit...
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The power of a good story
There are many ways that God’s word can reach people around the world. His word can be read on the printed page. It can be shared on a mobile phone via blue tooth or an SD card. It can be heard and...
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Finally knowing what it means to believe and depend on Christ
Many Dukawa speakers finally know what it really means to believe and depend on Christ, whereas before they had not really understood. Over 3,800 Dukawa people have turned to Christ as a result of...
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A confident smile
Under a white bucket hat and blue-tinted glasses, Michael Kativa’s smile is as wide as his face. The foundation for Michael’s vibrant joy lies within the confidence he finds in Jesus. He sits back,...
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