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Landmark Arabic Commentary launched in Cairo
A huge milestone was reached last month when the Arabic Contemporary Commentary (ACC) was launched in Cairo. This one-volume commentary on the whole Bible is a Langham Literature project, which began over ten years ago. It is the first of its kind: a commentary on the whole Bible, written by 48 Arab theologians, for Arabic-speaking…
Read MoreLangham Preaching celebrates 10 years in Vanuatu
Earlier this year, following a week of Langham Preaching training, a special event was held to celebrate ten years of Langham Preaching in Vanuatu. This is a country made up of more than 80 islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Stephen Williams, Regional Coordinator for Langham Preaching in the South Pacific, said the festivities were…
Read MoreEstablishing strong foundations in Mongolia
Pastors in Mongolia have a desire to serve God but lack training and have limited resources. In April this year, 30 pastors began Langham Preaching training with a hunger to know how to preach God’s Word well. This is the second cohort as 25 people have already completed three years of Langham training. Apart from…
Read MoreWatch: ‘Nothing like this has been done before!’
Watch Polish editor Wojciech Szczerba explain how the Central Eastern European Bible Commentary (CEEBC) will help Christians to live in this ‘crazy, fragmented postmodern world’. He explains that from a Polish perspective, the project is the first time that a commentary has been written by indigenous authors for believers in his region. Wojciech’s articles on…
Read MoreTyndale House reaches beyond academic confines
Langham Partnership has a permanent ensuite study bedroom at Tyndale House, Cambridge, for exclusive use by Langham Scholars. Tyndale House boasts a world-renowned library, and a superb academic community in which Scholars can complete their studies. And its work goes further than the limits of academia. The principal Dr Peter Williams spoke recently at the Forum of…
Read MorePreaching App translation work continues
Did you know that Langham Preaching is working in eight of the top 30 countries where it is most dangerous to be a Christian? (See Open Doors’ World Watchlist). The work of Preaching Movement coordinators in these countries is extremely difficult, especially as in many places their work must be kept ‘secret’ in order to…
Read MoreEquipping generations to preach faithfully in Botswana
Three members of the same family, along with a 74-year-old great grandmother, have completed all three levels of Langham Preaching training in Botswana. At the end of the week-long event in August this year, 15 people in total ‘graduated’ from the course. They are the first people in Botswana to have completed the three levels,…
Read MorePray for Langham friends in Indonesia
Over the weekend a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Indonesia, killing at least 1,200 people. Langham Partnership has close links with Indonesia: we have twelve Langham Scholars from there; Langham Literature works with Christians in Indonesia to publish books in Indonesian; and there is a thriving Langham Preaching movement. We recently received this report from Hamdani…
Read MoreDisplaced South Sudanese students build own classroom to finish Bible College course
Students at a Langham Literature member college who were forced to flee South Sudan were so determined to complete their course last year, that they ended up building their own classroom. The seventeen students were in their third and final year at the Anglican ‘Bishop Allison Theological College’ (BATC) in southwest South Sudan, when civil…
Read MoreThe Privilege of Preaching in Ethiopia
In his nearly 10 years as youth pastor at Mekanisa Kale Heywet Church, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Pastor Misgana has seen a thing or two about the power of God’s Word to transform. When he first started working with the youth, their knowledge of the Bible was not strong. So, he started a Bible a…
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