Pioneer Bible Translators

God, please add a global prayer coordinator to our team.

Join us in our mission to give Deaf and hearing people God's Word in their heart language. Millions still lack a single verse of Scripture. Together, we can change that. You can help bring God's Word to those who need it most. Translate a verse, transform a life!

Why Bible Translation is STILL Needed! God’s love knows no bounds, yet millions still lack His Word in their language. Pioneer Bible Translators is on a mission to change that, translating Scriptu...

Thank you, God, for a successful and encouraging exploratory trip to two Middle Eastern countries for the purpose of gathering information about possible new projects.

God, please strengthen your Church in every place where we serve, cultivating networks of believers using heart-language Scriptures to grow, mature, and multiply.

God, please protect the marriages and families of our local teammates. Please continue growing them in their walk with you.

God, please continue to empower teammates in the Middle East as they serve among a difficult-to-reach people group. Please bring much fruit as they seek to translate your Word and make disciples.

He had only a few verses of Scripture. One of them spoke powerfully and convincingly to him.

Greater is He - Pioneer Bible Translators

God, please defend our teammates in West Africa against the spiritual attacks that come when they are gaining momentum and approaching significant ministry milestones.

God, please raise up committed, long-term mother-tongue translators in Southeast Asia to partner with us in translating your Word.

God, please help our team have perfect unity and growing ethnic diversity so that the world may believe that Jesus is for everyone.

Thank you, God, for orchestrating the many details needed for two teammates to resume their ministries in Vanuatu. Thank you for your many provisions that have made their return possible.

God, please work in and through everyone on our worldwide team to provide access to your life-transforming Word to unreached people groups.

This Book Lovers Day, we're curious: What's your favorite book of the Bible? Share your favorite. Let's bring these books of the Bible to every signed and voiced language. Translate a verse, transform a life!

God, please protect local teammates in a South Asian location from kidnappings, raids, and forced military service.

Embrace your role as the light of the world! Help make the Scriptures accessible to all the Deaf and hearing people by supporting Bible translation. Become a prayer partner, teammate, or donor, and together, we will shine brightly to those in darkness! PioneerBible.org/about

God, please provide the right opportunities and relationships for teammates in MedAfrica to begin artistic research for developing culturally appropriate media for communicating your Word.

Does Jesus have something to offer those who are suffering? Khata and her people hold tightly to the hope of eternal life found in Jesus.

I Pierced My Nose With a Thorn - Pioneer Bible Translators One time I pierced my nose with a thorn. Actually someone else did — I just sat there as the thorn pushed steadily through my nose, my eyes closed peacefully,

God, please connect our teammates with people of peace in a refugee community in the Midwest who would be willing to translate your Word into their West Asian language. Please add the right person to our team to facilitate this work.

God, please help our teammates in East Africa as they move toward being able to do their own audio recordings of translated Scripture. Please guide them as they train participants and set up and use new equipment.

God, please move our team to implement Disciple Making Movement training and start self-propagating Bible studies in every one of our language projects.

Thank you, God, for the ministries you gave our interns this summer. Thank you for the ways you are using their experiences to prepare them for the future ministries you have for them.

God, we pray that in all circumstances our entire team will be a people satisfied in you as we live and serve. Please grant unity in mind, love, spirit, and purpose.

God, please bring salvation through Jesus to every heart-language translator who does not yet believe.

God, please give clear direction to our Deaf Ministries teammates as they lay foundations for translating the Action Bible Sign Language into Polish Sign Language.

"Amara asked difficult questions that challenged our presuppositions of God and His Word."

What? Your co-translator Isn't a Christian? - Pioneer Bible Translators Most people assume that the national men and women who serve on Bible translation teams are Christians. While that’s a natural assumption, it is not accurate.

God, please show our teammates in Papua New Guinea how to inspire people to read and listen to your life-transforming Word.

Friendships grow deeper when sharing God's Word. On this International Day of Friendship, support Bible translation and bring the Bible to Deaf and hearing friends around the world in their heart language. Be a friend! Translate a verse, transform a life! https://vist.ly/3aktz

God, please show our teammate serving refugees in the Atlanta area which people group she should work with to translate your Word.

NEW Blog Post! Our Daily Bread “Give us this day our daily bread,” we say together as a family every morning around the breakfast table. Even our little two-year-old’s voice joins in as we recite the prayer together. We haven’t always had this habit, but as the years have pas…

Our Daily Bread - Pioneer Bible Translators “Give us this day our daily bread,” we say together as a family every morning around the breakfast table. Even our little two-year-old’s voice joins in as we