Katharine Barnwell: How One Woman Revolutionised Bible Translation and Became the Mother of Modern Missions

JORDAN K MONSON

What if Mother Teresa or Billy Graham lived and worked and nobody knew their names? What if one of the church's most influential missionaries went almost unnoticed?

Meet Katharine (Katy) Barnwell. Within Bible translation, she's a legend. Outside of Bible translation, few have heard of her. Few others can even hold a candle to what God has done through Katy's life and work.

All around the world, hundreds of millions of new believers read and hear Scripture in their own language because of Barnwell's work, books, and language training. By some estimates, about 3,000 completed or in-process Bible translations swim directly downstream of her work. Since she rebuilt The Jesus Film Project's methods, more than 300 million viewers around the world have become followers of Jesus.

Katy Barnell's inspirational life further includes hiding as a child from Nazi bombing raids, fleeing civil wars, remaining calm under terrorist attacks and armed gunmen, and utterly revolutionizing every field she touched. She is truly the mother of modern Bible translation and the mother of twenty-first-century missions.

Hardcover 304 pages

9781430096252

B&H PUBLISHING