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| style="padding: 0pt 10px 0pt 0pt;" rowspan="3" | <div style="text-indent: 20px;">This website is a project to make gospel-centered books and articles freely accessible in as many languages as possible. We do this through the help of our generous volunteers and [[Gospel Translations:Partners|partner organizations]].</div>
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You can volunteer in a number of different roles to help us improve, or simply browse the site and enjoy the resources we have available. Everything here is available completely for free, no strings attached. In fact we encourage you to give our content away to others, too.  
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You're currently at the English portion of our site, which serves primarily to facilitate translation and review before resources are formally made available. It is our hope to launch sites in many other languages that will host the projects completed here. Already, we've started projects in Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Bahasa Indonesian, and many other languages!
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If you'd like to get involved, please just use one of the links on the right--either for multilinguals or English-only speakers. We'd be honored to have your help, however you can lend it, in proclaiming the gospel in every language and to every nation.<br>
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To learn more you can watch the video below, visit our [[Gospel Translations:FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions page]], or [[Special:Contact|send us a question]]. <br><br>  
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* '''November 29:''' We've launched a new home page design that we hope will make it easier for translators to get plugged into our network and begin working on projects. If you can think of any improvements, [[User talk:Mahra|please let us know]]!<br>
 
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* '''November 29:''' Gospel Translations now has more than 40 active translators in a wide variety of languages--Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, and others. Thanks to everyone for the contributions you've made over the last few months!
 
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Current revision as of 11:26, 7 March 2017

This website is a project to make gospel-centered books and articles freely accessible in as many languages as possible. We do this through the help of our generous volunteers and partner organizations.

You can volunteer in a number of different roles to help us improve, or simply browse the site and enjoy the resources we have available. Everything here is available completely for free, no strings attached. In fact we encourage you to give our content away to others, too.

To learn more you can watch the video below, visit our Frequently Asked Questions page, or send us a question.

Volunteer Opportunities
You can join hundreds of translators, content managers, and developers who are making a difference in the global church by lending their talents to Gospel Translations. Read about existing roles or email us if you have other ideas for advancing our mission.
Current Progress
  • 11530 online resources
  • 44 languages
  • 1544 translators


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