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.
Zambia: Record-breaking translations reach waiting language groups.
A mere three and half years after the translation projects started, the Nsenga and Ila New Testaments officially launched in Zambia in July 2016. Together these two translation projects made God’s Word available in the heart languages of approximately 1 million people.In the past decade, New Testament translation projects like these took an average of eight years to complete. But…
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Children Find Hope Through Trauma Healing Ministry
Fourteen-year-old Martha is the woman of the house—if you can call it a house. She lives with her two younger brothers and little sister in a small shack with gaps in the wooden slatted sides and floors made of dirt and rocks. They have no idea where their mom is. She abandoned them long ago. Martha and her siblings are…
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Hope and Healing for Cameroon’s Hard Places
As General Secretary of the Bible Society of Cameroon, Luc Gnowa has helped bring God’s Word to thousands of Cameroonians. But one Bible recipient stands out in Luc’s memory—a woman named Mama Catherine, who recently died at the age of 118.Although Cameroonians have had access to the Bible in French and English, Mama Catherine didn’t hear the Scriptures in her…
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Pray Around the World
Bible Societies around the world are helping to share God’s message of hope and love with those who need it most. Here are prayer requests from a select group of Bible Societies that ask you to lift them up in prayer.NigeriaBible Society of Nigeria asks you to pray for peace in their country, which has been ravaged by terrorist groups,…
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End to End Program Engages New Believers in the Scriptures
Esi* gave her life to Christ when she saw the JESUS film in her small village in Ghana. She knew from that day forward her life would be different.“I was born and raised as a Muslim,” she explains. “My decision to follow Jesus affected my family. My prospective husband has declined marrying me, and my parents have disowned me.”Undaunted, Esi…
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Malawi’s Elhomwe Speakers Receive Their First New Testament
Imagine hearing or reading God’s Word for the first time in your own native tongue. How powerful to finally know that God speaks your language!The Elhomwe speakers of Malawi in Africa experienced that recently when—after a lifetime of reading the Bible and listening to sermons in a language that is not native to them—they received the first ever New Testament…
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