Scripture servants give Amber glow
Amber is a North American woman who now lives with a Muslim family in a remote culture. She learned the language and began to put some basic Bible stories into the local vernacular, and for the first time the women in that area are hearing the message of Scripture.
She now has 47 stories in circulation, which are being told and retold—daughters telling then to their fathers; mothers telling them to their children. "I am not a Bible translator," says Amber. "I'm just a woman who loves Muslim women."
And the love is returned. While living in this remote culture she learned her brother had died. She felt very lonely and far away. But the loneliness did not last long after 40 Muslim women came to mourn with her.
Amber calls herself a "Scripture servant," an ordinary Christian who chooses to live in an illiterate society. She is one of a growing cadre of people willing to move into an entirely different way of living and learn a new language in order to be able to tell Bible stories to people who cannot read or write, or who learn better through oral rather than written means.
According to www.oralbible.com, "There are four billion oral learners in the world, with a minority of resources attempting to reach them for Christ." It goes on to explain that the remaining people groups without "are predominantly oral societies." They aim to "communicate the message of Christ to people in ways that make sense to them—instead of in ways that make sense to us."
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