“The Cakchiquel man became indignant when Cam offered him a tract in Spanish. ‘Do you have one in Cakchiquel?’ he asked. ‘There are none, I’m sorry,’ replied Cam. ‘Well,’ retorted the man, ‘if your God is so great, why can’t he speak my language?'”
In one decisive moment, Cameron Townsend understood that God had called him to translate the Bible into the language of his Guatemalan friends, and then Cam started Wycliffe Bible Translators with the dream of making the Good News available in every language. Since 1942, Wycliffe has translated Scripture into hundreds of languages, spreading God’s Word to people all over the world.