When the Words Finally Came Home
In 2015, the American Bible Society completed a translation of Scripture into Bibleless languages for a small community of Kimyal people in Papua, Indonesia. When...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10.
In 2015, the American Bible Society completed a translation of Scripture into Bibleless languages for a small community of Kimyal people in Papua, Indonesia. When the helicopter carrying the printed New Testaments landed in the mountain village, something remarkable happened. Men and women who had waited over thirty years for God's Word in their own language ran toward the boxes, weeping openly.…
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