Author Archives: Gilles Gravelle

Five Questions Every Donor Should Ask

How do you know if your funds are helping to create lasting impact? Before you give to a mission organization, you want to hear solid answers to your most important questions.

How to Accelerate Scripture Distribution

The message about the Lord spread widely and had a powerful effect. —Acts 19:20, NLT God’s Word changes lives. We need to get the Word out as rapidly Read more…

Our Language No Longer Matters (Or So We Thought)

These elders were looking out for the next generation — and future ones to come. Survival weighed heavily on their minds. With pressure mounting on all sides, one choice seemed inevitable: to embrace the language of wider communication. Yet, in similar situations around the world, local people rise up, make critical choices and stop the inevitable.

Measuring the Spiritual Impact of Scripture Translation? Yes, It’s Possible!

In 2004 an amazing feast was prepared for the Gofa community in Ethiopia. Now, eight years later, we returned wanting to discover: had they been nourished? In other words, had their lives been transformed because of the Gofa Scriptures?

Why Were the Least the Last Until Now?

1,240 people groups. Each with 10,000 people or fewer. They have no Scripture. That’s 60 percent of the 2000-plus people groups without God’s Word. They are the Least of These.

On Social Transformation and Unreached Peoples:

Revisiting the Winter-Escobar Debate 21 Years Later Today Dr. Gilles Gravelle is guest posting on the William Carey International University blog, where he explores the history of holistic Read more…

Free Download: Discover Spiritual Impact for 21st Century Mission

Today we’re offering a free, downloadable PDF, thanks to positive feedback on our recent series on spiritual impact: How Would You Measure Spiritual Impact? Discovering Spiritual Impact in Read more…

Discovering Spiritual Impact in Mission, Part 2

Welcome back once again to those of you who’ve been following our discussion on measuring spiritual impact. If you’re new to the blog or joining us for the Read more…

Discovering Spiritual Impact in Mission, Part 1

Welcome back to our discussion on what it might look like to measure spiritual impact of Seed Company translation projects. Last week we got the conversation started with Read more…

How Would You Measure Spiritual Impact?

Hey! Thanks for checking out our blog, and thanks to those of you who keep checking in. We’d like to experiment with something a little different on this Read more…