Tongue Twisters

While there are many barriers to bringing the Gospel to the unreached, one of the more difficult is linguistic differences.  There is no better way to reach people than in their own language. As Cameron Townsend, the founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators said, "The greatest missionary is the Bible is the mother tongue.  It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner."  I feel that this concept also applies to any sharing - it is best received when someone hears the good news in the language they grew up speaking/hearing. To illustrate the challenge presented by languages click on the map below.  It shows a breakdown of the different languages just within the Middle East and Central Asia.