About this episode

The episode discusses how a mountain village transformed into a sending church through literacy, translation, and biblical conflict resolution.

A mountain village with no written language now reads Scripture, forms elders, resolves conflict biblically, and plans outreach to nearby villages. We share how literacy, translation, discipleship, and tested leadership turned an unreached people into a sending church. • creating an alphabet and literacy from field linguistics • translating Scripture and building a full curriculum • Junior and Jess’s conversion and contagious witness • joy and sorrow as fuel for mission • women launching and...

People in this episode

Guests: Jack Crabtree, Lael Crabtree

Topics covered

• literacy
• translation
• discipleship
• leadership
• mission
• outreach

Keywords

• literacy
• translation
• discipleship
• sending church
• conflict resolution
• outreach
• mission

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Scripture

Places: mountain village

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