Impact 50 million people with Scripture
The church is on the move in Spanish-speaking nations. Partner with church networks across Latin America who want and need Scripture in their heart languages.
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Overview
Project Overview
This project equips and trains church networks in Spanish-speaking Latin America. Leaders and translators train people in their networks to then train others with a complete suite of open-licensed Bible translation content, tools and training materials. Leaders and translators in 500-plus indigenous people groups in Latin America will then be able to translate the Bible accurately for themselves.
Population
469,000,000
People Groups Affected
552+
People Impacted
50,000,000
Join the Movement
Partner with us to establish the Church in every people group and the Bible in every language.
From the Field
The latest from field partners in Latin American Spanish translation
SCRIPTURE for 1,000+ PEOPLE GROUPS
Partners need your help as they mobilize, train and equip local church members to reach the unreached.
Content
Open-licensed Bible translation resources empower the global church.
Tools
Software equips church networks to execute our Gateway Languages Strategy.
Training
Trained believers train others to do Church-Centric Bible Translation.
Content
In this phase of the Latin American Spanish Gateway Language Project, we will focus on translating 13 Book Packages of Scripture and Bible translation resources, translating Open Bible Stories and training more translators to do this work.
Book Packages
Books of the Bible — and all the necessary resosurces needed to accurately translate them — are being translated into Spanish. Once a Book Package is complete, it can be used to translate that book of the Bible into hundreds of languages connected to Spanish!
- Ruth
- Titus
- 3 John
- Nehemiah
- Esther
- Obadiah
- Jonah
- Luke
- Ephesians
- 1 Timothy
- 2 Timothy
- 1 John
- 2 John
Open Bible Stories
Fifty Bible stories spanning Genesis to Revelation. The team will produce four Audio OBS packages and reach more than 75,000 people.
- 1Print TranslationsCompleted
- ≥ 75kPeople ReachedIn ProgressKey Impact
Whitepapers
Our partners are translating five of unfoldingWord’s expert whitepapers in this phase of the project. These whitepapers explain what it means to equip the worldwide church networks to translate the Bible accurately themselves and how to achieve that.
The Gateway Languages Manual- The Gateway Languages Strategy
- Trustworthy and Trusted
- From Unreached to Established
The Christian Commons
Tools
Four of our most important translation and translation checking tools are being localized into Spanish.
Tools
Our partners are localizing four translation and translation checking tools. These tools help Bible translators swiftly and accurately translate Scripture.
tC Create
translationCore- translationStudio
- Gateway Language Project Tracker
Training
Our Latin American Spanish team is training translators from other people groups to use unfoldingWord tools to translate the Bible and check their work themselves.
Workshops
Our workshops teach fundamentals of accurate Bible translation and translation checking.
- ≥ 150Workshops HostedIn Progress
- ≥ 60Workshops CompletedIn ProgressKey Impact
- ≥ 180Individuals AttendingIn ProgressKey Impact
Individuals Trained
Outside of seminars, individuals and small groups get coaching online or in-person.
- ≥ 150Individuals TrainedIn Progress
- ≥ 25Individuals TrainedIn ProgressKey Impact
Join the Movement
Your investment will help empower church networks worldwide to translate the whole Bible into their ethnic languages for the very first time.
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