The Vision
Every nation, tribe, people, language before the lamb
A BIBLE MOVEMENT IN EVERY LANGUAGE
Revelation 7:9 gives us a picture of God's grand plan—that every language would be represented around the throne of Jesus Christ. Yet, 98% of the world's languages do not have the full Word of God in their heart language.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God—and how can they hear unless they have the full Bible in their heart language?
3+
billion people remain unreached.
98%
of languages lack complete Bibles
18
months to translate a full bible
WHY HAVE THE ENTIRE BIBLE?
To have a full picture of who God is, His plan of redemption and to make disciples of nations, we need the entire counsel of God as revealed through the Old and New Testament.
We are committed to the principles that most Christian Bible translating ministries affirm as central to a good translation:
Faithfulness to the Original Text:
Produce accurate translations of the Bible, staying true to the original languages and meaning.
Relevance to the local Culture:
Translations are adapted to the cultural context of the target language and people, making the Bible acceptable and understandable.
Available to Local Faith Communities:
Translations are available immediately through the Bible App for free use by local believers in evangelism and discipleship.
LANGUAGE OR DIALECT?
A translation group once surveyed 120 languages in Nigeria and labeled 7 of the 8 kings and 119 of the languages merely dialects of a larger language group.
The result? They produced only one central Bible leaving the other 119 mother tongues as dialects without translations.
These 119 language and their Kings greatly desire to have the Word of God in their own heart language as they each viewed their own heart language distinctly different from one another. They were left in despair with no path or plan to ever have a Bible in their heart language.
These kings met with OMT partners in Nigeria with tears in their eyes expressing how they greatly desire the Word of God in their heart language.
Now, each of these remaining 119 languages are in the process of sending their Mother Tongue Translators and are in the process receiving a full Bible in their mother tongue.
THE GREAT COMMISION: A TASK TO BE COMPLETED
By 2033, the global OMT movement aims to complete translations for 12,000 languages in Africa & 30,000 in Asia by equipping YWAM's 2000+ global bases and hundreds of church planting movements as translation hubs.
Global Expansion:
To meet this great hunger for the Bible and the Gospel, EVERY LANGUAGE is activating 6 strategic hubs: Nepal, India, Nigeria, Myanmar (Burma), Singapore, and a closed nation in the Middle East.
These hubs will serve as multipliers for the movement. Hundreds of translations will be produced and thousands of new church plants will grow to maturity.
As these 6 hubs grow, we hope to multiply these in order to reach the 2033 vision.
Join The Movement
Be a part of seeing a people receive the Word of God in their heart language. Walk with them from Bible-less and Unreached to having a Bible Movement in their heart language.
"the bible is the foundation for transformation. until everyone has it in their own language, the great commission cannot be completed."
- Loren Cunningham