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Christians in Zambia, Africa, are now celebrating the latest milestone in Bible translation, the creation of Bibles written in their native tongues. According to CBN News, the effort is led by Wycliffe Associates, an organization that offers Bible translations in countless languages. Currently, over 5,000 people are working in Zambia to translate the Bible into 20 native languages. Bishop Henry Mumba, a pastor and church planter, is assisting church-owned translation work in Munsa. He recalled how he heard his first Bible verse when he was 19 years old. “My pastor was a missionary from another country,” Mumba told CBN News in an interview. “And he came into this town and when they preached the Gospel to me, the first verse that I knew was John 3:16. Believers in Mansa, Zambia, were reportedly dancing after they got to read and listen to the reading of the New Testament in Aushi, their native language, for the very first time ever.

The bishop also shared that the Bible is the first written literature in the Aushi language. “We’ve never had anything before,” he said. In addition to the Aushi translation, the New Testament was translated into Nynja and Laya. “Our country has 73 languages. And only seven were considered official languages. Those were the only ones who had scripture translated,” pastor Buster Paul Tembo of Livingston explained.

Tembo, who leads church-owned translation work in Livingston, contended that Christians having access to the Scriptures in their own language makes a “great spiritual impact in their lives. When you bring it out in your own language, when you read it out in your own language, even the interpretation of it to the people, the understanding you have or bring to the people is so clear,” he said.

Simoun Ung, the President and CEO of Wycliffe Associates, explained that the term “church-owned Bible translation” means that the local church owns the translation process and the production of the Scriptures. According to Ung, one major challenge is determining how to accelerate the translation process without giving up the quality of the translation. “When you see the field, you see the need for scriptures. People are dying every day without coming to know the Lord. And so the urgency for us is really there, in terms of being able to press forward,” she said.

We thank God for this latest achievement in Bible translation that Christians in Zambia, Africa, are now celebrating. Let us pray that this would result in a more rapid spread of the Gospel there and a great harvest of souls for the Kingdom of God. The Bible says, “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Matt. 24:14). Thank God it is happening and the end is near indeed!

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