As part of Year of the Word, our church-wide initiative to read the entire Bible together in 2025, we’re partnering with Seed Company to resource the world with God’s Word translated into the heart language of several unreached people groups.
Seed Company, a 501(c)(3) organization led by Watermark member Davis Powell, is focused on accelerating Bible translation. They partner with local churches, translation organizations, and leaders to ensure that Bible translation is community-owned, sustainable, and delivered in a language and format people truly understand. There are 7,000 known languages worldwide, and to date, Seed Company has helped bring God’s Word to over 2,400 language communities.
This project directly supports our marker of being a Bible-revering church. We believe everyone should be able to communicate intimately with God, and God speaks through his Word. But that is incredibly difficult, and often impossible, when entire cultures don’t have access to it in the language of their hearts—the language they use to think, dream, and express their deepest emotions.
That’s why we chose to partner with Seed Company and invest in Bible translation projects. When people encounter Scripture in the language that speaks to their soul, they discover that God sees them, knows them, and loves them.
In this partnership, we’re asking God by the power of his Spirit to use the generosity of Watermark members to support as many Bible translation projects as possible during a focused season of prayer, giving, and dependence. Each project is geared toward an unreached people group, those with little to no access to Scripture and virtually no Christ-followers in their communities.
These projects will progressively expand our collective impact by unlocking new milestones in the translation process for unreached people groups. Milestones include First Scripture Engagements (projects that provide the first verse or Scripture passage in the language of an unreached people group), completed New Testaments, completed full Bibles, and completed full sign language Bibles.
As Watermark walks through Year of the Word together, this is our chance to respond—to pray, seek the Lord, and give as he leads. Let’s help translate the Bible together, church!