CRU – Orlando, FL
Chris and Kristin Deckert work with the JESUS Film Project, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. Chris is the Team Leader of the Script Translation Strategies and Language Research Department. He coordinates an initiative to translate The JESUS Film into 865 unreached languages. In this role, he leads a team that researches and prioritizes languages for translation while meeting with Bible translation agencies to facilitate the translation of the Gospel of Luke.
With many starts and stops they are seeing progress with Mission 865 languages in various parts of the world. Thanks for your prayers. Please continue to pray for internet connections, healthy translators and translation coordinators. Chris is excited to share about this team in Muslim West Africa. They are a totally indigenous team. The coordinator, translators, pastors, and recording team were trained a few years ago. A month ago they emailed that they were ready to start their next Oral Translation of the JESUS Film in a predominantly Muslim language. They have been working over the last couple weeks and will wrap up their initial translation work of the JESUS Film Script at the end of the week. Praise the Lord for their initiative!