Yesterday I posted that members of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland have been praying for South Sudan. Please keep praying for Sudan but also give thanks for what God is doing through Bible translation!
Every fourth week the Wycliffe office in Belfast gets the chance to post prayer news and requests on the weekly PCI Prayerline – today this week’s edition heralded dramatic progress in Bible translation
636 languages have a full Bible
1,442 languages have the New Testament
1,145 languages have Scripture portions
Here’s what I wrote this week…
Wycliffe Global Alliance website has just published the latest Scripture and Language statistics.
This means that perhaps 111 language communities may be hearing the Christmas story this year in their heart language for the first time.
- Please celebrate with us as we thank God for what he is accomplishing through His power and through many partners involved in Bible translation.
- Pray that all those people, who now have some or all of God’s Word in their heart languages, will respond and follow Jesus.
There are an estimated 7,097 languages spoken in the world today. The research indicates that over 160 million people, speaking up to 1,800 languages may need a Bible translation programme to begin.
- Pray that Wycliffe Bible Translators and our partners in Ireland and around the world will be guided by God to complete the task.
- Please continue to pray with us for people with no access to God’s Word. Our prayer is that more PCI congregations will join with us to #endbiblepoverty.
Find out more at www.wycliffe.org.uk and www.wycliffe.net/en/statistics
John 20:21 
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