‘Your package is eight stops away…’ Gone are the days – at least in theory – of waiting in all day for a package that might possibly arrive sometime in the next eight hours.
Now companies can let us know exactly where our books or socks or paper clips have got to. But at the end of 2019, we received news of a much more exciting delivery. The Flame Bible translation team in West Africa had sent an update: ‘the New Testaments with Genesis have rounded the Cape of Good Hope on a ship and are heading north to us.’
Imagine the anticipation of waiting for God’s word in your own language. Worldwide, the Bible is available in nearly 700 languages, but that still leaves one in five people without it in the language that speaks to them best. For some, the Bible in their language is still many years away. But others, like the ‘Flame’* people, are making great strides in translation. On 18 April 2020, the New Testament and Genesis in the ‘Flame’ language will be launched with a great celebration. But even before then, the ‘Flame’ Scriptures have been having a great impact.
