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

When Nadia’s* husband died, she didn’t think life in Cameroon would ever get better. She focused on providing for her seven children, but Nadia’s grief threatened to overwhelm her. “Eleven of us live in a three-room house,” she says. “Life has been very difficult for us.”… Read More

Jibola* was desperate to end her pain. At age 8, the Nigerian girl lost both her parents and went to live with her sister. When Jibola turned 13, her sister’s husband began abusing her and threatened to kill her if she told anyone. The poor child developed insomnia and… Read More

Life in rural Liberia was never easy for Lionel* and his family. They had no running water or electricity in their West African village. However, as a plantation worker, Lionel says, “food was always on our table.” Then, the bottom fell out of his world when a terrible accident left… Read More

Have you ever tried reading a book written in Old English and published centuries ago? If you have, you know how difficult it can be to understand. It’s English, but very different from how we read, write, and speak today. Yet, this has been the reality for Hebrew-speaking Christians all… Read More

Komi lives in Warrangni, a rural farming community in Togo, a small country in West Africa. It is one of the world’s poorest countries, with four out of five people struggling to survive on less than $2 a day. Many people in Togo, like Komi, are desperate for the hope… Read More

Yessica had been a churchgoer for years. Each week, she sat in the church and listened to her pastor preach. While listening to the sermons, she felt close to God. But as soon as she left the building, she forgot God’s words in the busyness of daily life as… Read More

As a poor farmer in Central Asia, Fahim* had never encountered the living God of the Bible. For him, Christianity had always been a distant phenomenon—a minority religion in his homeland. But on a day that started out like any other, Fahim’s life changed forever. Fahim was out in the… Read More

Bookstore sign at the Bible Society of Palestine. Photo by Malorie Tull. The Palestine Bible Society is in the midst of a “Proclaim It” Scripture encounter media blitz that will expose as many as 10,000 Palestinians to the Word of God when complete. Palestinians are seeing and reading… Read More

Andy Crouch. Photo by Courtney Brooke “The Bible” as we know it — a printed book with numbered chapters and verses — is only a few hundred years old. Is it possible that the Bible of future generations will look and feel very different from ours, while still… Read More