It's Time to Move Faster!
Mobilizing Assistance and Supporting Translation or MAST
programs have begun! What is MAST you ask? It is in laymen's terms the single
fastest and most inexpensive way to effectively and accurately draft a new
translation of biblical books!
MAST programs consist of a team of missionaries meeting a group
of national church leaders and Christians on their turf, in their country,
speaking their language.
For the following week or two weeks after this team lands there is tireless work
plowing through as much of the Bible as they possibly can drafting it into
their own language. The team of
missionaries is there to assist and
support as per the title MAST. They ask questions, such as “why do you use
this word as opposed to this word?” and comprehension questions like this to
help the translators work more effectively.
As opposed to the incredibly high cost of translations
previously, MAST programs only cost $19,500 to provide an entire New Testament
draft to a people group and language who have never before read the words of
the Bible. What an incredible feeling
that would be to create an entire New Testament in a language that has never before read the Bible in their own native tongue.
What is the most incredible part about this accelerated program? So far in 2015 Wycliffe Associates has had the opportunity and
resources to perform several trips around the world! Perhaps not every one of
them finished drafting entire books of the Bible, but at least started. That means more Bibles beginning! WOW!
Perhaps you could pray for the MAST programs? Perhaps you
could give a $19,500 donation to provide a New Testament draft to a language
that needs one? Perhaps you could give a portion of that funding?
Whatever you have to ability to provide through finances or
through prayer, please do it! The time is now, we have no time to waste when it
comes to people living without the light of the Word of God!
In the name of He who saves,
Andrew J. Belcher
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