A Worn-Out Book Teaches an Important Lesson

For years, translators George and Beera Nashar wanted to start a Sunday School program for the Rutara children in the church they regularly attend. Last year during the Christmas holidays, they held a contest for the local kids to gauge their interest in Sunday School. George and Beera were so encouraged by their response that they announced Sunday school would start the following week.

Every week since then, they’ve been reading with the children from the Rutara Gospel of Mark. One Sunday, as George was teaching about Jesus feeding the 5,000 in Chapter 6, a little boy suddenly interrupted the lesson.

“That story is in this book!” he beamed, holding up a tattered edition of a New Readers Series booklet the team had translated some time ago. Several of his companions nodded, indicating their understanding as well.

The children loved the New Readers Series — booklets full of pictures containing Old Testament and New Testament stories in a simplified, easy-to-read form. The Nashars have now started using the five-part New Readers Series exclusively for Sunday School in that village. Nothing encourages a translator more than a worn-out book!