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2022 Impact Report | Punjabi Project Creates Early Impact
For CBS, publishing in the languages of the heart of Indigenous communities and the diaspora church is a high priority. One’s own language is the way God speaks most clearly and powerfully.
2022 Impact Report | 90 Translation Projects in 2021
Despite a second year of COVID disruption, in 2021, Bible Societies across the world completed Scripture translations in 90 languages used by 794 million people—just over 10% of the world’s population.
2022 Impact Report | Reclaiming Language, Renewing Hearts
Mourning the loss of their language and wanting to preserve it for their children, a team of women, some over the age of 80, began translating the Bible. They are now supported by CBS specialists but at the outset they had no guidance.
2022 Impact Report | Bible-Based Trauma Healing Gains Momentum
The Bible-based curriculum for groups includes basic mental health concepts. The group sessions and personal work help participants to identify their pain, share their suffering, bring their pain to the cross of Christ for healing, and, for cases where the trauma was caused by the actions of another person, learn to forgive their oppressors.
2022 Impact Report | Emergency Response to Youth at Risk
The needs of youth at risk called for an emergency response during COVID. Gifts from CBS donors were used in 37 locations serving youth at risk across Canada. About half of the gifts were Bible-based resources and the other half emergency operating grants.
2022 Impact Report | Gifts of Peace
Because you give, people hear God’s voice in their darkest moments. God’s Word brings them peace, a gift like no other. Read these stories in our latest Impact Report.