Source: Wycliffe Bible Translators, September 30, 2016<\/p>\n
It all began in 1917 when William Cameron Townsend (known by friends as \u201cCam\u201d) went to Guatemala to sell Spanish Bibles.<\/p>\n
When Cam stepped off the boat, his youthful enthusiasm for sharing the gospel was high, but he soon realized that most of the people he was meeting didn\u2019t understand the Bible in Spanish! Many of them spoke Cakchiquel instead.<\/p>\n
Cam faced a dilemma. If they didn\u2019t understand, how was he reaching people for Jesus? Frustrated and disappointed, Cam began to wonder if he\u2019d failed. But God had others plans in mind.<\/p>\n
Deep down, Cam thought everyone\u2014man, woman and child alike\u2014should be able to read God\u2019s Word in the language of their heart. So although it would end up taking almost 10 years of his life, he learned the complex Cakchiquel language, created an alphabet and translated the New Testament.<\/p>\n
When he was done, the Cakchiquel Indians finally had God\u2019s Word, but thousands of other languages still needed it.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Full story<\/a> describes Cam Townsend\u2019s journey to founding Wycliffe Bible Translators USA in 1942. Learn more about Wycliffe USA\u2019s 75-year anniversary through a timeline, stories, and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Wycliffe Bible Translators, September 30, 2016 It all began in 1917 when William Cameron Townsend (known by friends as \u201cCam\u201d) went to Guatemala to sell Spanish Bibles. When Cam stepped off the boat, his youthful enthusiasm for sharing the gospel was high, but he soon realized that most of the people he was meeting … Continue reading WORLD: 75 Years of Bible Translation<\/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-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698","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=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6699,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions\/6699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}