Collaboration: Is It Time?
Every Tribe Every Nation has found that collective impact is the key to further God’s kingdom.
Within the realm of Bible translating, two centuries ago was the era of exploration when explorers were commissioned to discover the regions of the world that were suffering from a lack of God’s Word. Last century was the era of individual pioneers who saw the potential to extend boundaries and reach recording-breaking numbers of people with the Bible for the first time.
Might this century be the era of collaborators, tackling challenges so large that they must be accomplished collectively rather than going in alone?
The idea and practice of 'collective impact' is ripe for this century as we seek to eradicate Bible poverty.
Every Tribe Every Nation (ETEN), representing the Alliance of Bible translation organizations and resource partners, came together in the early part of this decade. It’s comprised of CEOs of ten different Bible translation organizations and five resource partners who meet monthly and function as a steering committee. ETEN has four goals for 2033:
- Create two translations for the world’s top 100 languages
- Provide the full Bible to population sizes over 500,000
- Provide the New Testament to population sizes between 5,000 and 499,999
- Provide 25 chapters of the Word of God to population sizes between 1 and 4,999
This collective impact collaboration has already been observed in Christianity Today and written about through the lens of Peter Greer, CEO of Hope International.
But what is it really like on the inside, and ‘why’ as a CEO am I personally committed to this alliance? Allow me to describe the journey herewith in five different points.
Collaboration is not about scarcity of resources. It is about the stewardship of resources. Having worked at Ernst and Young and also in several …
