“Bible translation brings life transformation. Their worldview changes when they know God speaks their language. He’s no longer a foreign God.”
Many in Kenya’s Bibleless people groups believe their languages have no value. Peter, the man quoted above, told this story recently: “A man in the Sabaot community of Western Kenya prayed aloud in his mother tongue in a gathering. Afterward, another man stood up and apologized to God for him praying in a language God wouldn’t understand; he then prayed in Swahili so God would understand.”
Peter’s passion for his people to know Jesus began in 1989 while at the university. “I was blessed to have been born in a community where the Bible was available,” he said. “When I received Christ as a young man in college, I became aware of people groups in my country who don’t know Jesus because the Bible is not available in their language.”
Peter Munguti, general secretary of Bible Translation & Literacy of East Africa:
Peter’s passion for his people to know Jesus began in 1989 while at the university. “I was blessed to have been born in a community where the Bible was available,” he said. “When I received Christ as a young man in college, I became aware of people groups in my country who don’t know Jesus because the Bible is not available in their language.”
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Oh the Swahili man brought a chuckle from me. Silly of us to think that God does not speak our language. We had a friend who read a book by a Kenneth E Hagin (I believe in Visions”) who had experienced visions and spoke to Jesus. My friend told me, God doesn’t speak like that! Because Rev Hagin seemed to quote God with a Southern accident. I laughed at her and said, just how does God speak then? She quieted down and that was that. After all, God invented the variety of languages, so he understands them all, even the heavenly language that we can use when we pray.
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