The Unchanging Word in a New Year: Gospels Distributed in Kenya and Tanzania

While the world made resolutions that will quickly fade, something extraordinary was unfolding in East Africa. In the first week of 2026, eager hands reached out, not for temporal promises, but for eternal truth.

For years, many in these communities had been without access to faithful Scriptures in their own tongue, and the spiritual hunger was palpable. On New Year’s Day, a TBS translator who is also a grantee, laboured faithfully to bring God’s Word to people in Kenya. He arrived at Tenwek Africa Gospel Unity Church carrying precious cargo: more than a thousand copies of the Gospel according to John and The Lord Gave the Word in Swahili. He placed the Scriptures into eager hands, praising God as, on the same day, he baptised seven new converts. ‘What a blessing! What a joy!’ he shared.

Three days later, a fellow translator journeyed to Ukerewe Island in Tanzania, where he witnessed more than eighty adults hungry for God’s Word assemble. The Gospel and accompanying article were also distributed at this event. In their hands they held not merely printed pages, but ancient truth, unchanged and eternal, the very words of life.

A new year has begun, but the Lord who saves souls remains the same. We give thanks to God for these distributions and pray that He will use these Scriptures to bring many to salvation through His inerrant and eternal Word.

‘Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning’ (James 1.17).