The first Bible in the San Language arrived with joy and ceremony in Burkina Faso. Over a quarter of a million people speak San, many of whom live in Burkina Faso and neighboring countries. Before the San Bible, believers who only spoke San relied on community translators to connect… Read More
When you speak with Fredah*, you can see a glimmer of hope behind her dark eyes. Joy shines through her beautiful smile. Deep in her heart an innocence — once violently stripped away — is gently being restored, with the help of our friends and partners. Fredah lives in… Read More
Despite his young age, Kamal* has endured a lifetime of violence and loss. He has always known the pain of being fatherless. Then, at just 10 years old, he became an orphan when his mother was killed in South Sudan’s civil war. The war continues today, claiming 400,000 lives, displacing… Read More
Faith* knows as well as anyone what it’s like to feel lonely and abandoned. At just four years old, she was living in an orphanage in Kenya. “I hated being alone very much,” she says. “I had nobody to talk to or encourage me.” So, when Faith… Read More
While the world was shutting down at the start of the pandemic, many who wished to find comfort in their faith were unable to meet, choosing to stay safe but separated. Some could look to their Bibles for strength, but still others, like Ruth*, had no Bibles of their own. Read More
Hundreds of believers gathered to rejoice and praise God in North Central Nigeria as the very first Okun New Testaments were delivered. Okun, a dialect of Yoruba, is spoken by more than 600,000 people in the region. Though 85 percent of Okun speakers are Christian, this is the first Bible… Read More
May your world never crash down around you the way Hannah’s* did. Hannah’s husband and son died, leaving her as a widowed mother of five. Life was already difficult in her native Angola, where four out of 10 people live in poverty. As a widow, it must have seemed… Read More
Mwimbi-Muthambi-speaking Christians are receiving Scripture in their heart language for the first time! Prior to the new translation, speakers of Mwimbi-Muthambi had to read the Bible in other dialects or languages. “This will help people of my age to understand the Word of God better, and we will grow… Read More
Thirteen-year-old Jacob* has already lived through more tragedy than most people three times his age. Born in rural Kenya, he became an orphan after his parents died. “I had a lack of food and school fees,” he recalls. Jacob struggled to survive in a thatched mud house. Many… Read More
Kaleb* longed to know more about God. But if you placed a Bible in his hands, it would not have helped him. “I am illiterate,” the Ethiopian father of 10 explains. “Our church is far away and we walk for so many hours to get there. Since there… Read More
