News ¢ Sheri Goh is the Editor of Methodist Message. / Graphics and photos courtesy of SIL International
Could you imagine life without the Bible? Help to eradicate Bible poverty in this generation with illumiNations Asia “After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe
and people and language , standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes and held palm branches in their hands.” Rev 7:9 NLT
D
id you know that throughout the history of the
Given this situation, illumiNations Asia, the Asian arm
printed Bible, there have been an estimated
of an alliance of Bible translation partners, has launched
900 English translations and paraphrases of the
an online campaign, “Imagine Life Without the Bible”. It
Bible? About 12 are commonly known and used by
aims to motivate and encourage followers of God’s Word
Protestants today. 2 But of the 7,360 known languages
by supporting the translation, publication and distribution
in the world today, over 4,000 do not have a translation
of the Scripture in every language in which it is not yet
of the full Scripture, with more than 1,600 not even
available in Asia. The goal is that by 2033, 95 per cent
having a single verse.
of the world’s population will have a full version of the
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METHODIST MESSAGE SEPTEMBER 2020
