The Need

25Doesn’t everyone speak English?

It’s easy to forget that not everyone understands English, and out of those that do, many only have a very broken understanding.

There are 6,912 spoken languages in the world. Try this for multi-lingual:

Africa 2,092 (30.3%)

Americas 1,002 (14.5%)

Asia 2,269 (32.8%)

Europe 239 (3.5%)

Pacific 1,310 (19.0%)

That’s a lot of people that don’t understand English! Imagine if you were handed a Bible in Swahili, Zulu or a language that you’ve never even heard of, how would you find getting to know God in another tongue?