The Good Shepherd separates sheep and goats. See Matthew 25:31-46.

In Matthew 25, our Lord Jesus Christ makes it clear that one way he separates the “sheep” who follow Him from the “goats” who don’t is by the way they treat even the least of His brothers and sisters. If Jesus is concerned about basics like food and clothes for his family, how much more should we be careful to provide the spiritual food of His Word?

Is there any language group that is so small that we don’t think it is worth sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ with them in their own language? If you think like a profit-motivated businessman, you would surely set a limit and serve only the language groups with at least a million speakers and lots of money. If you are more prophet-motivated in following Jesus, who would leave the 99 to find 1, you wouldn’t set such a limit. To make it real, consider the Diyari (or Dieri, as they call themselves) people in South Australia. The 2021 census lists 34 native speakers of this language. Not 34 thousand or 34 million, but just 34. Their ethnic group consists of 600 individuals according to the same census. The whole New Testament in Diyari is avialable for free downloading and reading on eBible.org. It is a great resource for the native speakers, as well as anyone else in their group interested in learning their cultural and language heritage.

Thank you for helping us make this ministry possible with your prayers and support!

Map of Australia showing the Diyari speakers’ home. The blue dot is exaggerated in size so you don’t miss it. Map extracted from the SIL Ethnologue.

Thank God that

• We have distributed more than 730 million Scriptures in 1,548 Bible translations from our Bible web sites. That is 6 million more deliveries compared to last week. You can be sure that most of that count didn’t come from Diyari, but Diyari Bible traffic is excellent for the size of that people group.
• We are able to send God’s Word to both large and small language groups.
• God is our Provider, Healer, and Savior!
• God’s Word never returns to Him without doing what He sent it to do. (Isaiah 55:11)

Prayer Requests

• That I would be able to efficiently finish eBible.org front page beautification and audio web page index generation, as well as improving the user interface to adapt to major languages. Jed and I are both working on it. Pray that we coordinate well.
• Pray for provision, protection, health, and wisdom for all who are working on Bible translation, Bible study software, and Bible web sites.
• Wise balancing of competing time demands.

How can we pray for you, today?