Who We Are
Bringing hope to communities
around the world
Who We Are
Lutheran Bible Translators partners with local leaders to create translation programs for the many communities who do not have access to God’s Word in their native language. Your prayers and financial gifts enable us to provide the resources, tools, and the support local leaders need to make the Word of God more accessible than ever.
Mission & Vision
Impact Areas
Effective and accurate Bible translation takes more than a deep understanding of language—it requires the right resources, community involvement, and awareness of cultural context. We focus on three key areas to provide local leaders with what they need to support a successful translation program.
Building Capacity
Translation efforts require the right environment, training, materials, and technology. We direct your financial gifts to vital infrastructure.
Deepening Scripture Engagement
Through literacy classes, audio and video recordings, Scripture reprints, and language development, your involvement leads to meaningful Gospel engagement.
Bible Translation
Your prayers and financial support lead to Bible translations that will bring hope, life, and transformation to people all over the world, for generations to come.
Current Programs
We empower local leaders in Africa, the Middle East, Papua New Guinea, Southeast Asia, and the United States to translate the Bible into their local languages. View our active programs to see the communities that benefit from your financial gifts and prayers.
Meet the Team
Though we serve all over the world, our missionaries, board members, and staff are united by a common goal: making the Bible accessible in all languages.
hope, life, and transformation
Scripture is more than words. Join the mission and equip leaders for translation. Over 3,500 communities are waiting for the Word of God in the language they understand best.
Our Doctrinal Position
Lutheran Bible Translators accepts without reservation:
The Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament as the verbally inspired and inerrant Word of God and the only rule and norm of faith and of practice.
All the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church as a true and unadulterated statement and exposition of the Word of God, to wit: The Ecumenical Creeds (the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian Creed), the Unaltered Augsburg Confession, the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles, the Large Catechism of Luther, the Small Catechism of Luther, and the Formula of Concord. Note that the “Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church… to wit:…” is the Book of Concord.
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