Spoken Worldwide

What if your prayers could help someone hear God's Word for the very first time?

We have the privilege of seeing God answer prayers in incredible ways—opening doors that once seemed impossible and making a way for His Word to reach communities that have never had access to the gospel.

Will you join us in praying?
As part of the Spoken Prayer Team, you'll receive weekly prayer updates from the field, giving you the opportunity to pray for our field leaders, mother tongue translators, local disciple-makers, and the unreached communities who are still waiting to encounter God's Word.

Together, we're trusting God to see oral communities receive Scripture in the language and format they understand best. As people hear God's Word, share it with others, and gather in Discovery Bible Study groups, lives, families, and entire communities are being transformed by the gospel.

Every prayer matters. Every prayer is part of God's work.

Become a prayer warrior for Spoken Worldwide by joining our prayer team. Click the link to sign up: https://spoken.org/prayer/

Many people picture a remote village deep in the jungle. But being unreached isn't about geography—it's about access.

🌏️ Millions of people around the world have no local church, no nearby believers, and no Scripture in a language they can truly understand. Some live in isolated villages. Others live in the heart of busy cities. The common thread is that they still haven't had a meaningful opportunity to hear and understand the gospel.

For many of these communities, a printed Bible isn't the first step. They learn through listening, storytelling, and conversation. That's why oral Bible translation is so important. It brings God's Word to people in the language and format they
understand best—so Scripture can be heard, remembered, shared, and lived out.

Every person deserves the opportunity to encounter God's Word in a way they can understand.

👉 Learn who the unreached are—and how Spoken is helping bring the gospel to communities still waiting to hear: https://spoken.org/unreached-gospel-locations/

Nearly one million people in the Philippines are one step closer to hearing God's Word in their own language.

Recently, members of the Spoken Oral Bible Translation team traveled to the Philippines to encourage and equip three oral Bible translation teams serving communities where access to Scripture is still limited.

Together, these three language projects represent more than 980,000 people, many of whom are oral learners living in Muslim-majority areas where following Jesus and sharing God's Word can come with significant challenges.

During the visit, Spoken's Oral Bible Translation Director, John, and Consultant Trainer, Angie, led workshops and community engagement sessions to strengthen and encourage the local translation teams. Together, they are translating the first five books of the Bible—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—into the heart languages of the people they serve.

Would you join us in praying for these teams?

🙏 Pray for wisdom, perseverance, and protection as they faithfully translate God's Word.
🙏 Pray that the people who hear these Scriptures for the first time will encounter Jesus and experience the transforming power of His Word.

Every translated story brings another community one step closer to hearing God's Word in the language they understand best. ❤️

Imagine never having heard God’s Word in a language you truly understand.

For millions of oral learners, this is still reality. But together, we can help change that.

At Spoken Worldwide, we partner with indigenous Christian leaders to bring Scripture to communities where written words alone cannot go. Through oral Bible translation and oral discipleship, people can hear God’s Word in their heart language, discover its truth, and experience life transformation.

Your gift on helps:
🌍 Translate Scripture into heart languages for communities still waiting to hear.

🤝 Equip local Christian leaders with the training and resources to reach and serve oral learners.

📖 Launch disciple-making groups where people listen to Scripture, retell its stories, discuss its meaning, and apply God's truth to their lives.
Every community deserves the opportunity to hear and respond to God's Word.

🧡 Give today, September 19, before midnight. Click the link to make your gift count!
https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/organization/Spoken

More than 2.3 million people in Ghana have never had the opportunity to hear the gospel. Behind that number are men, women, and children who have yet to encounter the hope and love of Jesus.

While southern Ghana has seen greater access to education, jobs, and infrastructure, many communities in the north continue to face significant challenges, including poverty and limited access to electricity, clean water, and other essential resources. In some areas, vulnerable people have also been harmed by false teachers who exploit them with empty promises, causing many to become disillusioned with the Church.

Will you join us in praying for Ghana?

🙏 Pray that those who have never heard the gospel will have the opportunity to encounter Jesus through God's Word.

🙏 Pray that Scripture will bring truth, wisdom, and discernment, exposing false teaching and drawing hearts to Christ.

🙏 Pray that God will raise up more faithful leaders, translators, and disciple-makers, because the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

🙏 Pray for our Spoken field leaders, oral Bible translators, and disciple-makers as they faithfully share God's Word. Ask God to multiply their impact so that people across Ghana can encounter Scripture in their heart language and in ways they understand best.

Together, let's pray that every person in Ghana will have the opportunity to know Jesus through His Word and experience the life-changing hope of the gospel. ❤️

What if a simple answered prayer changed everything?

Just four months ago, Daw Nann—a widow and mother of four from the Inthar community—heard God's Word in her own heart language and gave her life to Jesus. 🙌 ❤️

Not long after, she experienced a moment she'll never forget.

One day, after visiting the market, Daw Nann waited more than an hour for transportation home. No one stopped, and she began to lose hope. Then she remembered what she had been learning from God's Word. She prayed, asking Jesus to help her.

Within five minutes, transportation arrived.

To some, it may seem like a small answer to prayer. But for Daw Nann, it was deeply personal. It confirmed that Jesus is real, that He cares for her, and that He hears the prayers of His children. That moment strengthened her faith and trust in Him.

Today, Daw Nann is no longer just growing as a disciple—she's making disciples. She now leads her own Discovery Bible Study group, helping others encounter the same life-changing hope she found through God's Word.

Her story is a beautiful reminder that when people encounter Scripture in a language and format they understand, lives are transformed.

In places where printed Bibles are difficult to access or where many people learn best by listening, God is making a way through oral Scripture. ❤️

Right now, across the world, people are hearing God's Word in their own language for the very first time.🧡

Behind every active language project is a real community. Families. Children. Elders. Local believers faithfully sharing the hope of the gospel where it has never been heard before through oral Bible translation and Oral Discipleship.

Will you take a moment to pray with us?
🙏 Pray that God would prepare hearts to receive His Word and draw people to Himself.
🙏 Pray for courage, wisdom, and protection for the local believers, translators, and field leaders faithfully serving these communities.
🙏 Pray that Discovery Bible Study groups would multiply, new disciples would grow in their faith, and local leaders would be equipped to share the gospel with others.

Every prayer matters. As God's Word reaches new languages and communities, lives are being transformed by the power of the gospel.

If you'd like to pray more intentionally for the unreached, join the Spoken Prayer Team. You'll receive real-time prayer requests directly from the field and stand alongside those bringing God's Word to people hearing it for the first time.

Become a prayer warrior for Spoken Worldwide.
Click the link: https://spoken.org/mission-vision-values/ to sign up for our prayer team. ❤️

When God’s Word was heard in a language he understood, a village chief found renewed faith and hope.🧡 🙌

Chief Adogai, also known as Onda’gye Akwapa (“Chief Elder of the Land”), is the leader of a small Akweya community of about 500 people. Growing up, Chief Adoga was influenced by both traditional beliefs and Christianity. This dual religious upbringing affected his spiritual growth, leaving him with an incomplete understanding of God’s Word and how to faithfully follow the Lord.

When tragedy struck and he lost his son in a devastating accident, Chief Adoga carried a grief so deep that he often wished it had been him instead of his son.
But God met Chief Adoga in the middle of his pain.

During an Oral Bible Translation community checking visit, the Akweya Oral Bible Translation team gathered to share and review Scripture aloud. Chief Adoga happened to be there and listened as God’s Word was spoken in the language he understood best.

The team shared 1 Peter 5:7, "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."

For the first time, Scripture was not just something distant — it was now close, and heard in the language he could truly understand. God’s Word spoke directly to his grief and reminded him that he was not alone in his pain.

Through this encounter, Chief Adoga found comfort in the Lord and began placing his full trust in God renewing his faith in the true Living God.

Chief Adoga’s story reminds us that access to God’s Word in the way that speaks to a person's heart, and in the way they understand best, makes a difference. When people can hear and understand Scripture, God’s truth can reach even the deepest places of pain and bring transformation. Praise God that His Word is bringing people to Christ and transforming hearts.

🎧️ 🌍️ Two-thirds of the world learns by listening, not reading — and that changes everything about how the gospel is shared with them. 👉️ Swipe to learn more about oral communities and what it takes to reach the people still waiting to hear. 🧡

Visit www.spoken.org to learn more.

One Bible story changed how one woman saw Jesus.🧡

For the first time, Fatima* is discovering who Jesus truly is.

At 45 years old, she joined a Discovery Bible Study provided by Spoken Worldwide and a women's discipleship group in the Chakali community. Although she had heard Bible stories before, this was the first time she encountered Scripture in a way she could truly understand.

One story especially captured her heart: Jesus and the woman at the well.
As she listened, Fatima realized something she had never fully understood before—that Jesus is God and that He alone offers everlasting life.

She shared:
"Today I want to acknowledge my sin and give my entire life to Jesus Christ in repentance. I need Jesus to give me the Holy Spirit to evangelize and bring people to Him. I know Jesus will not reject me because He didn't reject the Samaritan woman at the well. I believe my life is new, and I am here to serve God with all my heart."

🙌 Praise God that more people are encountering Jesus through His Word in the language and format they understand best.

Please pray for Fatima and the other women in this Discovery Bible Study as they continue to grow in their faith and share the hope of Christ with those around them.🧡

*Name changed for security purposes.