Stages of Translation The Story of the Komba Bible “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.” 1 Corinthians 3:6-7 In the dry northeast region of Ghana...
A message from our CEO, Rev. Dr. Rich Rudowske – Greetings from the International Offices of Luther Bible Translators. I’m excited to share our vision for the next season, which is critical for achieving our mission. As I begin serving as CEO, I think...
The pastor read the text from Luke 24:36-43. Then he said, “Jesus, raised from the dead, was not a ghost.” Not a sentence you usually hear in the pastor’s comments on Easter Sunday. But this pastor was speaking to his congregation in Cameroon, where people believed...
“Why are you getting baptized?” “I don’t know but we’re supposed to be. And I will be baptized in the river.” The Uspanteco man in Guatemala went on to explain to his friend that the local church was in grave error. They had built an outside tank they filled with a...
The young woman was very ill. Her husband asked LBT missionary Rev. Tim Beckendorf if he would drive her to a nearby clinic. She’d already seen other doctors and traditional healers. Now the clinic confirmed the diagnosis. She was dying. They sent her home to be cared...
“Thxrx is nothing wrong with our typxwritxr xxcxpt for onx littlx kxy. Thx othxrs work pxrfxctly. Onx malfunctioning kxy makxs a diffxrxncx, doxsn’t it?” I came across this in an old LBT prayer letter, written to donors in 1969. It went on to say, “You may say to...
