{"id":12566,"date":"2023-12-20T09:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12566"},"modified":"2023-12-20T09:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T17:52:30","slug":"uganda-believers-unite-to-translate-scripture-in-new-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12566","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Believers Unite to Translate Scripture in New Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: Mission Network News, December 6, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Denominational splits in the global Church cover everything from minor to primary theological and Church life issues. Often groups can struggle to work hand in hand post-split. However, recent efforts in Uganda brought together members of diverse churches with the single goal of Bible translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lindsay Olesberg with Wycliffe USA says, \u201cFor example, in a group of eight that would come from a particular language community, they would be from multiple villages and from multiple denominations. So you\u2019d have an Anglican next to a Catholic, next to a Pentecostal\u2014all working together on translating the Scripture for their community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This collaboration benefits translations through additional workers and also helps build the unity of the global Church as a whole. Believers have the opportunity to work with members of other churches to accomplish the Great Commission as a team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think the Bible is the great unifier\u2014that all Christians have confidence that it\u2019s through God\u2019s Word that we know who God is. So regardless of the denomination, people can rally together around, \u2018We want the Bible in our own language, so that the pastors within our denominations and church members, they\u2019re able to really understand it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/ugandan-believers-unite-to-translate-scripture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story<\/a>.<br><br>Also: YouVersion reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youversion.com\/press\/youversions-2023-verse-of-the-year-spotlights-a-widespread-search-for-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bible engagement accelerated worldwide this year with record-breaking app installs and daily use<\/a>. Good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mission Network News, December 6, 2023 Denominational splits in the global Church cover everything from minor to primary theological and Church life issues. Often groups can struggle to work hand in hand post-split. However, recent efforts in Uganda brought together members of diverse churches with the single goal of Bible translation. Lindsay Olesberg with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12566\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uganda: Believers Unite to Translate Scripture in New Languages<\/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-12566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566","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=12566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12567,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566\/revisions\/12567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}