2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the popular King James Version of the Bible. This year gives us a wonderful opportunity to reflect on how fortunate we are to live in a country where the Bible is widely available in our own language, with a large number of useful commentaries, academic study and training available to help us understand the Bible and how best to use it.
Unfortunately, this is not representative of the situation for many communities around the world. Research suggests that there are still over 300 million people without a single word of scripture in their own language.
Throughout the Biblefresh year we would like to encourage churches and Christians in the UK to make a real difference in one country where people are still waiting for their own Bible. Burkina Faso is a landlocked nation in West Africa, where many groups of people are still waiting for God’s word in the language they understand best. We hope that you will join with the Bible Society and Wycliffe Bible Translators to make a difference in this country.
To mark the start of this project, an event will be taking place at St Paul’s Church in Central London, to which you are warmly invited. Daniel Bourdanne, who is now the General Secretary of IFES, but was born in Chad and has spent periods of his life living and studying across a number of West African countries, will be speaking on the subject of the Bible for the Whole World.
In addition, worship will be led by Jacques Sankara, a dynamic and enthusiastic worship leader from Burkina Faso.
We would love to see you there!
Please register now, to help us in planning the event.
Speaker: Daniel Bourdanne – General Secretary of IFES (International Fellowship of Evangelical Students)
Where: St Paul’s Church, Robert Adam Street, London, W1U 3HW.
When: Tuesday, 16th November, 2010.
Time: 11:00am – 12:30pm
Questions: communications_uk@wycliffe.org