Delight in Turkey

Topographic map of Turkey

This week, I got an encouraging email from a dear friend, Bible translator, and pastor in Turkey. That is a land where there are a lot of people who don’t yet know the Good News about Jesus Christ. I thought you would be encouraged by the testimonies he shared. As financial and prayer partners, you helped me to help him and his team in the Bible translation process. The Turkish YTC translation is a translation of the World English Bible into Turkish. I helped their team both by doing translation consulting and helping them to get the results published in the YouVersion app and on eBible.org. Of course, it also helped that they had a royalty-free Bible that they had full freedom to make derivative works from without copyright problems. He wrote:

Greetings from Turkey!

I would like to share two small testimonies about our YTC translation which happened this week. One of the most respected pastors of our nation who is considered to be one of the faith fathers reached out to me this week and said “I’ve been reading the YTC version lately. It blessed me very much. I want to thank you for this translation.”

The second one is a Turkish believer from London who came to visit our church this Sunday. He said, “I normally read the NKJV in English and when I compared it with the common Turkish version of the Bible, I was disappointed from time to time. I thought to myself there must be some other Turkish Bible version that must be more accurate. I came across your version not, on YouVersion, but on ebible.org, and I was so happy for this version.” So this brother saw my name and started to follow us online so he came to visit us last Sunday, which was a big surprise for us.I’m so happy and thankful to see YTC has been a blessing for many Turkish people in an increasing way and I give all the glory to God…

Thank you so much for all your help.

Ismail

Turkey has many people who still need the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Please Keep Praying

Thank God that:

Please pray for the following aspects of our ministry:

  • Improving the automation of imports from the Digital Bible Library
  • App development
  • Web site upgrades for eBible.org, Solomons.Bible, and Baebol.org.
  • Computer security
  • Bible translation consulting
  • Bible translation processing for posting on eBible.org and sister sites

Please pray for our family:

  • Smooth and complete recovery from storm damage to our house
  • All of us to stay healthy

How can we pray for you, today?

May God bless you!
Michael & Lori Johnson