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We continue to be thankful for the availability of competent and motivated translators. March 7, 2016 we were able to put the Mooré translation of Simple Truths for the New Believer into the hands of pastors in Burkina Faso. A trip is being planned for April to put the book in print for wider distribution….

In August, the Jula (Dioula) version of Simple Truths for the New Believer went into print. Jula is spoken by as many as 10 million people in West Africa in Burkina Faso, Mali, Ivory Coast, and other countries as far north as Senegal. 1000 copies were distributed in Burkina Faso. A few weeks ago, we…

We are working with friends to see what it will require to produce a new audio versions of our written materials. As a test project, we are working audio version of our first piece called Simple Truths for the New Believer. Our first version was distributed to several individuals in SE Asia and the feedback…

Simple Truths is a small, simplified English “catechism” adapted and published seven years ago. Since then, it has been translated into more than a dozen languages (getting close to 20) and distributed in Africa, Central and SE Asia, South America, Europe and North America. Recently, requests have come from a few new places, including the Philippines. Translation…

Simple Truths is where this all started. For those who don’t know the story, let me retell it briefly. Beginning in 1999, I had started to travel to Vietnam to teach in a project connected to Canadian Baptist Seminary and South East Asia Training (SEATS). As a result of a week long class in which…

A number of years ago, we launched the largest distribution project for Simple Truths that we have ever attempted. We completed our Hindi translation, and with the help of OM Press in Hyderabad, we printed more than 50,000 copies of the “Little book”. The books were immediately delivered to a large church-planting network in southern…