Cameron Townsend, Janet Benge
Cameron Townsend, Janet Benge
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Cameron Townsend
Good News in Every Language

Author: Janet Benge

Narrator: Tim Gregory

Unabridged: 5 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2013


Synopsis

During WWI, Cameron Townsend (1896-1982) was told, "You'll do more good selling Bibles in Central America than you would shooting Germans in France." Cameron began by translating the Bible into the language of his Guatemalan friends. Then he started Wycliffe Bible Translators with the dream of making the Good News available in every language. Since 1942, Wycliffe has translated Scripture into hundreds of languages, spreading God's Word to people everywhere.

Reviews

Cameron Townsend is the founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators and associated organizations. His life seems somewhat easy, compared to some of the other subjects of the Benges' Christian Heroes series. Unlike missionaries of previous centuries, Mr. Townsend got to travel to the field by automobile an......more

Goodreads review by Hank

Uncle Cam as he was affectionately called was an amazing man. The things God enabled him to accomplish are amazing. He had this incredible dream that there should be a Bible in every human tongue. And amazingly his Wycliffe Bible translators have done more toward that end in the last half century th......more

Goodreads review by Eric

I read this book to my son over the period of a month. We both really enjoyed it. It was neat to see how God used a very ordinary man to have a vision to have the bible in all the different languages of the world. Sometimes as an English speaker, I forget just how truly spoiled I am to have so many......more