Source: International Mission Board, April 19, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IMB missionaries Andy and Marie Hoffman served more than 11 years without seeing any fruit among their unreached people group in North Africa. During those years, the family and their partners built relationships and shared the gospel with these nomadic farmers and desert horsemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It wasn\u2019t until the culmination of their hard work was almost complete that they saw nationals come to saving faith. Andy, with the help of national believers, finished a translation of the Scripture into the heart language of this predominately Muslim people group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As they were completing the project, Tom, one of the new believers and a fellow translator, asked a question that was \u201clike an arrow that hit me in the heart,\u201d Andy described.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tom asked, \u201cAndy, the Bible is a very important book, right?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYes,\u201d Andy replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tom continued, \u201cWhy did it take you so long to get here and bring it to us?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stunned, Andy explained that he came to live among Tom\u2019s people group when he was 29 years old. \u201cI couldn\u2019t have come much sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNo, I mean, how long has America had the Bible?\u201d Tom pressed. \u201cOur parents and grandparents\u2014they never, ever got to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andy replied, \u201cYou\u2019re right. We held on to it too long. Praise God, it\u2019s here, working among your people now. Let\u2019s not be guilty of holding on to the Bible in your country. Let\u2019s reach the other languages who still don\u2019t have it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For some of the many groups working to bring the Word of God to the nations, see a list of the 50 largest US missions and Bible translation organizations<\/a>, by revenue (Ministry Watch).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: International Mission Board, April 19, 2022 IMB missionaries Andy and Marie Hoffman served more than 11 years without seeing any fruit among their unreached people group in North Africa. During those years, the family and their partners built relationships and shared the gospel with these nomadic farmers and desert horsemen. It wasn\u2019t until the … Continue reading North Africa: Why Did It Take So Long?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10995,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10994\/revisions\/10995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}