Patch Our Planet

After seeing the results of our online outreach here in the U.S. this past year, we decided to reach beyond our shores. To do that, we would need to translate our resources into different languages. But which ones do we choose?

Here’s how we decided:

Approximately 1.5 billion people speak the English language, the most widely spoken language in the world (includes both native and non-native speakers).
Check! We already have that resource in English.

With the population of the world being around 7.8 billion, we decided to start with the 7 most popular languages in order to reach the most people. Below is the list of languages we chose with the approximate number of speakers worldwide:

Latin American Spanish (600 million)
Mandarin (1.2 billion)
Arabic (491 million)
French (321 million) expected to reach 700 million by 2050
Brazilian Portuguese (260 million)
Hindi (610 million)
Bengali (290 million)

Total Potential Reach (including our English resource) - 5.2 billion

We’ve partnered with Christian Lingua to translate our workbook into these 7 languages (potentially more in the future). These resources will be available for FREE download on our website in September because of our generous donors. It takes about a month to pull everything together, so thank you for enabling us to make this vision a reality!

Super important resource for the local church. People ask HOW we can better care for orphans during short term mission trips. Here is some wonderful guidance from our friends at Faith To Action, endorsed by Patch Our Planet: https://www.faithtoaction.org/wp-content/uploads/Short_Term_Missions_Guidance_Support_Orphans_Vulnerable_Children.pdf