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The Gospel in their native tongue.

Favor trains native speakers to translate Scripture so a tribe can read the Word in the language they dream in.

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A church without a Bible in the people’s language is a church that has to borrow someone else’s words for God. In Maaku, western South Sudan, even those who had once heard of Jesus forgot, because nothing in the village could remind them. No Bibles, no pastor, no church.

Favor started Bible translation projects in Juba with MAST (Mobilized Assistance Supporting Translation) training, an accelerated way to get the heart of God’s Word to unreached peoples. Native speakers use a gateway language they already know, one that has a current translation, and render the Gospel into their mother tongue.

The work includes basic technology training so those speakers can move faster. Translation has an ebb and flow. Favor is in it for the long haul, because Portable Bible Schools and church plants stall when the only Bible in the room is in a language the grandmother does not speak.

The Jesus Film in local languages has already changed outreach among cattle keepers. A written Gospel in the same tongue is the next stay-behind gift.

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Unreached People Groups Favor plants the first church in tribes that had none, trains native missionaries, and translates the Gospel into the language they actually speak. Nomadic People Groups Favor takes Portable Bible Schools and the Jesus Film into cattle camps, and raises pastors from the tribes that move with the herds. Discipleship Portable Bible Schools, GIFT, and leadership training turn new believers into teachers who raise the next village.

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