Living Word Bible Translators
Until every church can read the Bible
in its own language.
More than a thousand languages still have no Scripture at all. We train and support local translators, people who grew up speaking those languages, until their churches can read the Bible in their own words.
Why it matters
People understand God best in the language they grew up with.
John 3:16 says God loved the world. But a lot of the world has only ever heard that in a second or third language, learned at school.
Each language community we work with has its own story. Some have waited three or four generations.
Read their storiesThe global church
Where things stand
About 7,400 languages are spoken today. Here’s how many have some of the Bible, all of it, or none yet.
See the progressIllustrative figures for this demo.
When we read the first chapter of Mark out loud in our language, an old man stood up and said, “So God speaks like us too.” I won’t forget that day.
Your next step
Ways to help
Translation takes years and a lot of people, and most of them never visit the valley. Here is how people usually start: most begin by praying for one team by name.
The end result
Why we keep going
“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne.” Revelation 7:9
That crowd is coming. We want every language in it to have heard God’s word in its own words first.
Field notes
Stories and prayer requests from the teams
One email a month: a story, a prayer request and how the projects are going.
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