Translation transformation in Burkina Faso

Following up on yesterday’s blog Old Shoe, Old Bible I tracked down the original quote from Krish Kandiah (in the July/August edition of IDEA magazine page 6) commenting on a recent visit to EA partners in Burkina Faso. In the UK we know the value of native translation – having the Bible in English has [...]

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Old Shoe, Old Bible

When I read a recent report about Krish Kandiah’s Biblefresh visit to Burkina Faso, there was one thing which struck me more than anything else. In this desperately poor country, the President of the African Evangelical Alliance nonetheless said that the people in his churches would ‘rather have a Bible than shoes’. In a land [...]

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Wycliffe at Dublin Culture Night 23 September 2011

It’s a fine and fancy ramble from the northside to the south… 100 miles in fact from Belfast to Dublin last Friday to be part of the Grace Fellowship Church event as part of Dublin Culture Night. See also my recent blog. I had brought with me a substantial part of the Wycliffe UK travelling [...]

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Rare King James Bible found: Bible historic or Biblefresh?

An old copy of the King James Bible, thought to be a rare original 1611 edition has been found in a village church in Wiltshire. There are fewer than 200 original printings of the King James version known to exist. And it is believed that the rediscovered Bible is one of the few remaining editions [...]

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Got a Bible? Give a Bible!

This presentation about the need for Bible translation in Burkina Faso is now available online. Please feel free to download it and share in your churches, homegroups and blogs. It would be especially wonderful if the online community could get behind Bible translation. If you or your friends, home group, church…whoever wants to contribute to [...]

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Biblefresh Burkina Faso

    Colleague Phil Prior has been in Africa this past week… Last Friday morning I left the UK and flew to Burkina Faso with a journalist and a photographer to visit a couple of language groups in the Bissa region of the country. Two flights and a three hour car journey later, we were [...]

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Biblefresh on Wycliffe UK Website

Welcome to Biblefresh: a movement of churches, agencies, colleges and festivals seeking to encourage and inspire churches across the UK to a greater confidence and appetite for the Word of God. We are encouraging churches in the UK and Ireland to raise the level of biblical understanding and confidence amongst their members by taking practical [...]

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Biblefresh Translation for Burkina Faso

One of the four Biblefresh pledges that churches are being encouraged to make, is to give towards Bible translation for those language groups without the Scriptures 2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the popular King James Version of the Bible. This year gives us a wonderful opportunity to reflect on how fortunate we are to [...]

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Me + Biblefresh @ PCI General Assembly

Yes, I was actually there… … and I’m very thankful for my old schoolmate from long ago, Joe Cassells, Clerk of Session in his Coleraine church, for taking the photo of me last Tuesday afternoon. Joe, we now have clear historical evidence for the archive. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland is [...]

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Get into the Book: the Story everybody needs

What does the Bible mean to you? Is it a book that sits by your bedside that you largely ignore? Does it represent the past? Is it too difficult to read? Or has it become the very stuff of life, the most rip-roaring story you know? It may be the inspired Word of God, but [...]

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