{"id":13012,"date":"2024-06-19T10:07:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13012"},"modified":"2024-06-19T10:07:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:07:56","slug":"madagascar-drafts-of-a-new-translation-lead-to-new-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13012","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar: Drafts of a New Translation Lead to New Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: Wycliffe Bible Translators, June 7, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[SIL Associate Area Director] Serge Razafinjatoniary talks about the impact that Bible translation work has had on the Tsimihety community in Madagascar. After local churches in the area received drafts of the Bible and dispersed them into the community for testing, something incredible and unexpected happened: 17 new churches were formed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wycliffe.org\/blog\/posts\/new-churches-forming-in-madagascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">He tells the story in a short video, also below<\/a> (1.5 minutes). See also a related story we shared in our May 15 news briefs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wycliffe.org\/blog\/posts\/a-miracle-in-madagascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Miracle in Madagascar<\/a>. What would it take for those of us with more Scripture access to regain some of the enthusiasm of those receiving it for the first time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Churches Forming in Madagascar\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KaE_HrstWhU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Wycliffe Bible Translators, June 7, 2024 [SIL Associate Area Director] Serge Razafinjatoniary talks about the impact that Bible translation work has had on the Tsimihety community in Madagascar. After local churches in the area received drafts of the Bible and dispersed them into the community for testing, something incredible and unexpected happened: 17 new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13012\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madagascar: Drafts of a New Translation Lead to New Churches<\/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-13012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012","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=13012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13029,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012\/revisions\/13029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}