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As rockets rain and bombs fall, dedicated Iranians continue working on a spiritual revolution, translating God’s Word into the heart ...
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As rockets rain and bombs fall, dedicated Iranians continue working on a spiritual revolution, translating God’s Word into the heart ...
When we demonstrated how they could align their translations with Burmese, we got gasps!
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Birhan is from Islands-Asia. His 500,000-member people group waited 170 years for a Bible in their heart language. Then they partnered with unfoldingWord. Now, they are on the way to translating God’s Word for themselves! Birhan says, “I really love partnering with unfoldingWord, because it puts the church at the forefront.”
In minority language Bible translation, consultant access is limited. Time and resources are stretched. Quality cannot depend only on the next consultant visit. When used in a disciplined way, translationCore helps bridge that gap. It highlights key terms, exposes inconsistencies, and strengthens internal checking before external review.
“unfoldingWord is accelerating Bible translation and empowering local believers to bring Scripture to communities that have waited generations to hear God’s Word in their heart language. We’re honored to partner with them in this important work for the Kingdom.”
To make a clear, accurate, and natural translation, you need to know a lot of things. The unfoldingWord translation Book Packages act like a consultant. Wherever you have a question, you refer to it and find your answer. Each Book Package is more than 3,000 pages. We are translating the Book Packages into Farsi, so the other 30 languages that need a Bible in Iran can use it. You do it once and use it 30 times! Using the unfoldingWord Book Packages is almost six times faster than the old translation method.
I’m excited to share unfoldingWord with you. Since 1998, I’ve partnered with different agencies to say, “How do we make sure everybody gets God’s Word?” unfoldingWord has been an incredible partner in helping Every Tribe Every Nation and coming together with other agencies. Now, we have everybody working together to eradicate Bible poverty by 2033. We won’t do it without the help of unfoldingWord.
Charles and his team are working on five strategic languages in which Islam has recently made inroads. “Our people are story-crazy people. unfoldingWord® Open Bible Stories overcomes their hostility to the message of Christ. Also, churches working with unfoldingWord materials in local languages have experienced significant spiritual and numerical growth.”
I’m so grateful that unfoldingWord is helping us identify those least-reached areas of need and equipping the indigenous church to serve as God desires and to reach that next person in places that have been closed to historic translation models in the past!
Ibrahim from South Sudan says, “Checking translations by hand is very slow. translationCore is the fastest Bible translation checking software that we have ever seen. With this tool, we can check three chapters in a day. Plus, we can check the accuracy of our work because it aligns our translation with the original languages.”
“As someone who has worked in Scripture translation for decades, I can say with confidence that unfoldingWord’s Church-centric model is leading the way! They’re focused on both the transforming power of the church and the Scripture in their heart language. It’s happening! I wholeheartedly invite you to partner with them and join the epic story that God is writing around the world.”
“The movement of God’s global Church engaging in Bible Translation is not just a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It’s really a once-in-eternity opportunity that unfoldingWord is part of. It is a joy for Wycliffe to learn and journey with you all in this process.”
Pastor Tommy Lengkong chairs the Indonesia Evangelical Alliance. The Alliance comprises 102 church denominations and 70 mission organizations. “My experience at the Southeast Asia CCBT Forum has convinced me that we must shift to the new paradigm of Church-Centric Bible Translation.”
