Scripture engagement leads to knowing God—and lives changed forever. Now more than ever, Americans need to know God’s Word and the hope we have in its transformative message. The State of the Bible is a yearly, in-depth study, asking Americans their opinions and practices relating to the Bible, all made possible by generous supporters like you.
These Bible insights can provide critical information and give you direction for your Biblical ministry to help better serve the needs of people in your community.
Reaping a Harvest in Rural China
China’s East Lisu people are farmers by trade, but you wouldn’t know it by their soil. Forced off their fertile farmland by more powerful tribes, the East Lisu people eke out a living on the hard, stony mountainsides of Yunnan Province—a rural territory in southwest China. In the dry mountain air, they can grow little more than potatoes, corn and…
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Taking Part in God’s Grand Story
When Cheryl Holland reflects on the story of her life, she sees God’s fingerprints on every page.“This is a God story,” Cheryl says. “God has always stood by me.” Cheryl traces God’s faithfulness back to when her father accepted Christ at a Billy Graham revival. As a result, Cheryl’s childhood home was firmly rooted in the Christian faith. “The church…
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Healing and Heeding God’s Word
At first glance, there’s nothing special about Rugero Gaudance’s house in Rwanda’s Southern Province. Perched on a mountainside, the blind widow’s one-room home is comprised of four walls caked with mud and small, reddish stones. The roof is a sheet of metal slung across wooden beams.But as Rugero hobbles around her humble abode, she knows that her house is anything…
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MOZAMBIQUE: God’s Word Reaches Waiting People
A new Bible translation for the Xirhonga people, primarily located in Mozambique, is set to launch in 2017, bringing God’s Word to people who have waited more than 40 years for an understandable Scripture translation.Xirhonga speakers do not understand their original Bible translation due to changes in their language structure. This updated Xirhonga Bible translation was started in the 1970s,…
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Spiritual Refuge for Displaced People
Suffering communities in Central African Republic found strength through God’s Word, thanks to a series of Bible-based trauma healing workshops coordinated by American Bible Society and its partners in the fall of 2016. “People shared things they had been holding on to for a long time, unable to forgive, and God gave them the freedom to let it go,” reports…
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CUBA: Sign Language Bible Strengthens Deaf Christians
American Bible Society’s financial partners are bringing the Scriptures to Cuba’s deaf community through a sign language Bible, translated through a partnership with the Biblical Commission of Cuba and Cuban Council of Churches. “God is doing an amazing work in Cuba,” says American Bible Society’s Senior Vice President of Ministry Geof Morin, who visited the translation project in January 2017.…
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