Words from Roy Peterson - May 2008
As I pray with our Christian brothers and sisters around the world, I am humbled by their desire for God’s Word in their own language. The need is clear to them.
Without God’s Word in their language, Christians struggle to grow. Churches weaken through divisions along tribal lines. Communities are ravaged by diseases spread by marital infidelity.
As we know from our lives, God can use even one verse to transform people. This is why we’re increasingly focusing on delivering strategic smaller portions of Scripture as soon as they are ready. Often this is the Gospel of Luke, the JESUS film and audio recordings of some Scripture.
We use this strategy for groups who are difficult to reach with traditional methods. Doing so stretches our creativity—and also our faith.
We entered one hostile African people group more than a million strong, with no known Christians. Would locals help with translation? Might they report us? We couldn’t know. Nevertheless, we stepped out in faith and a church was born!
God is providing what translation teams need for quality translations in record time—even financial resources.
This issue of Seedlinks has more stories of people touched by God’s Word. A man hears God’s Word in his language for the first time. A church is equipped with a 90-minute gospel presentation on tape. A pastor changes his sermons after his congregation has God’s Word. (Read these stories on pages four and five.)
Please pray with me that those receiving God’s Word would continue to treasure it, read it, live by it and that the churches we’re serving together would flourish.
Roy Peterson has been The Seed Company president since 2003. Words from Roy is a regular feature of SeedLinks magazine—a free resource for all Seed Company partners and those interested in our work.