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I Know What Poverty Is
Pictures taken by all Wycliffe Discovery Teams (2006-2008)
Bible poverty is a devastating problem hitting people around the world. It is more than 340 million people. That’s nearly one-third of the world’s language groups that do not have one verse of the Scripture in the language that they understand the best in their heart. In a previous post of mine here, I discussed a movement working to end Bible poverty, with organizations and actions that can make a big difference in people’s lives – spiritually, physically, economically and culturally. How having the Word of God can chane every aspect of our life, community and the whole world.
I know what poverty is. I know the feeling being hungry and have nothing to eat. I know how desperate people feel when they need something but they cannot afford to get it. I know, because I’ve been there, my family has been there and I used to live in a country where I can see poverty every where I went, every single day. I’ve seen these people only sleep under the Flyovers, Bridges, sleeping on a piece of cardboard at the sidewalk, or if they can they build a shelter out of cardboard. They are hungry, cold and try hard to find something to eat. I’ve seen kids digging in a trash can just for a food. I’ve seen a mother would take her baby and sing on a bus just to get some cash to buy her baby food. How could I ever forget those faces?
It’s not a fair life for them. It’s injustice. It’s not what God wants to see. It’s not what we wanna see.
If you ask them what would make their life better, they would say a good job, more money, able to go to school and food. That would help them feel better – think that having all of what they desire would give them a better life. Even though they would get every single thing they want, they are still going to lose their souls, Jesus said in Mark 8:36-38. They need God’s word, they need to know that they have eternal life with Christ. They need to know that above all, they need Jesus Christ, who can change their life, spiritually and physically.
End Bible Poverty Now
End Bible Poverty is a movement to end the Bible poverty, with a vision and mission to translate God’s word into EVERY LANGUAGE in the world. Visit the organization website and find out more how to get involve and how to join this movement.
OneVerse is a program of The Seed Company that enables you to support local Bible translators as they make God’s message available in the language of their people
Wycliffe Bible Translators has a vision to see the Bible accessible to all people in the language they understand the best. Wycliffe also focuses on community development, literacy development and Church partnerships. Read more about their vision, mission and work here.
SIL International serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for sustainable language development, by means of research, translation, training and material development. Find more about this organization vision, mission, goals and works here.
Operation World: Reaching Out Through Prayer
All of you might be familiar with Operation World and how this media has been a great tool for all of us in our prayer life. At the end of the year, I would like to encourage each of us to spend time with your family to pray for a nation. Let’s reach out the world through prayer!
You can be part of the team that leading people to pray for nations, to reach out the world through prayer, and to make known God’s glory in nations. More about Operation World, you can:
Follow @OWTips
Find more tips here on OW Facebook page, and more Ideas For Leaders here
Are you still looking for a Christmas gift? Visit Operation World Store for more amazing gift ideas
Here’s a short link to 10 people who has been using the Operation World Book to lead and encourage people to pray for nations:
The Top 10 @OWTips Leaders of 2011
It has been an amazing year of ministry @OWTips. As the GMI team looked back over all of the interaction about prayer and Operation World resources, we were amazed at what God has done. So to celebrate, we thought we would highlight 10 of you who showed loyal and creative leadership in praying for the nations. Please take a moment to read about how praying (and tweeting) for the nations has impacted these 10 faithful prayer partners. As you read these testimonies, pray about how God might be asking you to lead others in prayer for the nations!
Which nation will you pray for at the end of this year?
Wycliffe’s Worldwide Day of Prayer
Remembering what God has done and trusting Him to bring it all to completion
Men and women in the Bible made it a practice to remember God’s mighty acts. In Genesis 28, Jacob set a stone upright as a monument to his heavenly vision of the Lord. In Joshua 4, the Israelites constructed a memorial so that future generations might recall God’s miraculous leading. And Jesus, during the Last Supper, took bread, broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Do this in remembrance of Me.”
For Wycliffe, an annual day of worldwide prayer serves as a corporate reminder of God’s hand in the past, present, and future of Bible translation. Today—November 11, 2011—Wycliffe staff working in almost 100 countries will pause to pray for Bibleless peoples and translation work in progress around the world. It’s also an occasion to praise God for blessing this time in history with what is now the greatest acceleration of Bible translation that the world has ever known.
Every completed Bible translation is, in its own way, a memorial, a reminder of God’s faithfulness. In 1932, William Cameron Townsend completed the translated Cakchiquel New Testament to reach one of many minority people groups in Guatemala. Now, the last four Wycliffe-supported translations of the New Testament in Guatemala are scheduled for publication this year.
We celebrate this progress, and yet the mission to urgently reach the remaining Bibleless peoples in all the major regions of the world continues. Thank you for your prayerful role in this task. Our hope is that these 40 Days of Prayer served as a reminder of the more than 2,000 language groups still waiting, and also as a powerful prayer tool for advancing God’s Word to these, the last languages.
- Join us in prayer on this special day! Go to www.wycliffe.org/DOP2011.aspx to access selected prayer requests. Intercede with us today, for the work of Bible translation.
- Ask God to prepare the hearts of attendees for this day of unity in praise, prayer, and thanksgiving.
- Pray that God will move mightily in response to our prayers!
Resource: Wycliffe Pray Today Blog