When a Village Heard Its Own Language for the First Time
In 2022, Bible translators with Wycliffe completed the New Testament in Kakchiquel, a Mayan language spoken by nearly half a million people in the highlands...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10.
In 2022, Bible translators with Wycliffe completed the New Testament in Kakchiquel, a Mayan language spoken by nearly half a million people in the highlands of Guatemala. On dedication day, hundreds crowded into a community center in Patzún. Many had only ever heard Scripture in Spanish — a colonial language they half-understood at best. When the first reader stood and spoke the Gospel of John in Kakchiquel, elderly women in the front rows began to weep.…
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