Most pastors decided to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation with a special service or a sermon series, but one decided to take things one step further and run 500km.
At the heart of the Reformation was a desire to communicate the doctrines of grace to ordinary people—to put God’s Word into the hands of tinkers, farmers, merchants, mothers and milkmaids. And it was this same passion for helping everyone connect with the Bible in their own language that moved Taras Telkovsky, a church planter from Minsk, to run 500km in just five days.
‘This year marks the 500th anniversary of the Belarrussian Bible,’ said Taras. ‘But instead of celebrating how the good news of Jesus Christ changed our country, the government wanted to draw more attention to the man that translated the Bible into Belarussian, Francysk Skaryna.’ Taras wanted to remind his country that it was the Bible itself which motivated the likes of Francysk Skaryna in Belarus, Martin Luther in Germany and William Tyndale in England to take great risks to translate the Bible into languages that local people could understand.
