Thursday, April 12, 2007

Vision 2025

Facts

Languages spoken in the world:

6,912


Languages needing Bible translation work to begin:

2,286



Population of people groups waiting for work to begin:

196 million



Languages with some or all of the Bible:


2,426



Language-based development and translation programs in progress (still needing varying degrees of help) in languages without adequate Scripture:

1,941




Population of people groups with projects in progress:



Estimated


1000 million+

3 comments:

Kim said...

I would love to see one of my kids go into bible translation. They are all so literate and good with words.

If I could do it again, I would major in linguistics in university instead of history.

Anonymous said...

Supposedly, there are 1.2 billion people in China, and only 3-4% of them are Christians. India's Christians make up only 2-3% of the population. If God is sovereign and saves who He will, why do you suppose so few in these countries have the right beliefs?

The only conclusion I can reach is that He dislikes the Chinese and the Indians. Pity.

ann said...

Here we go again, my favorite anonymous commenting with hate...

Your conclusion is wrong. Turn the situation over and think this way: now is the time for evangelizing those nations, and only God knows when the job is done, Amen?

My conclusion about you is that God must dislike you, because He does not want to grant you understanding...

Do not post anonymously. Every next such comment is going to be deleted, no matter what it says.