Moved By Light

Back To Up the Bible…is your Bible backed up? Many aren’t.

Getting Word to World: a lot’s been done, a lot remains.

What’s been done moves people, feeds the faithful, builds churches.

Here’s a good sign: when peoples get a translation that speaks to them, they want it again. They want to print more copies. They want study Bibles. Eventually, just like us English readers, they’ll want to revise the translation, because every translation shows its age as language changes and Biblical knowledge grows.

But there’s a problem, many of today’s translations are at risk. How? Like this:

• A translation couple dies, leaving a box of Bibles in their basement and nobody sure where the disks with the data is.

• A laptop with the only copy of a translation gets stolen.

• A translation is sent to the printer and the translation computers left for a few months while the team works in the city getting proofs ready. Meanwhile, their workroom suffers a fire.

And you can imagine the rest. A hard disk crashes. An electronic surge wipes out an office.

A virus erases the data on all our project’s computers. Happy April Fool’s Day.

The church has been charged as the keeper of Scripture. What are we going to do?