Sunday, November 5, 2023

Bible translation progress by the Skittles!

Whenever we return to the ILC, I love hearing how God is progressing His work in Bible translation. Vanay has Skittles in jars to illustrate Bible translation progress...

739 languages (representing 5.9 billion people) have the complete Bible in their heart language
1665 languages (representing 825 million people) have a complete New Testament in their heart language
1255 languages (representing 100M people) need translation projects started

This is the most amazing jar from our visit this year -- the skittles no longer fit into the other sized jar! 3766 languages have work in progress -- Bible translation, Language development, and/or Scripture engagement. This means that a lot fewer languages (just 1255) now need translation projects started!

Some data points from ProgressBible (https://progress.bible/data/):



The most important component, in which we can *all* engage, is prayer!

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