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This website is a project to make gospel-centered books and articles freely accessible in as many languages as possible. We do this through the help of our generous volunteers and [[Project:Partners|partner organizations]].</div>
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You're currently at the English portion of our site, which serves primarily to facilitate translation and review before resources are formally made available. It is our hope to launch sites in many other languages that will host the projects completed here. Already, we've started projects in Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Bahasa Indonesian, and many other languages!
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You can volunteer in a number of different roles to help us improve, or simply browse the site and enjoy the resources we have available. Everything here is available completely for free, no strings attached. In fact we encourage you to give our content away to others, too.</p>
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If you'd like to get involved, please just use one of the links on the right--either for multilinguals or English-only speakers. We'd be honored to have your help, however you can lend it, in proclaiming the gospel in every language and to every nation.<br>  
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Revision as of 19:51, 30 December 2008

This website is a project to make gospel-centered books and articles freely accessible in as many languages as possible. We do this through the help of our generous volunteers and partner organizations.

You can volunteer in a number of different roles to help us improve, or simply browse the site and enjoy the resources we have available. Everything here is available completely for free, no strings attached. In fact we encourage you to give our content away to others, too.

To learn more you can watch the video below, visit our Frequently Asked Questions page, or send us a question.

Volunteer with Us
Hundreds of volunteers are making a difference in the global church by lending their talents to Gospel Translations. Learn how to join them as a:
Current Progress (December 1)
  • 360 translators enrolled
  • 30 languages published
  • 760 translations online
  • 2921 English resources available for translation
Recent Updates
  • March 23: Today we launched a wiki devoted entirely to Portuguese! Thank you to all our Portuguese translators who made this possible, and our partner Editora Fiel for donating so many wonderful articles to us.
  • March 17: Welcome to our new translators: Veronique Clifford (French), Anna Fominykh (Russian), and David Laberge (French). Thank you all for joining with us in this ministry!
  • March 4: A very warm welcome to our two newest translators: Patricia Aquino (Spanish) and Silvia Silva (Portuguese)! Thank you for helping!
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