Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (John 17:17). This was a part of our Lord’s prayer concerning His disciples. In this prayer, we learn that the means through which sanctification comes is God’s Truth, the Word of God. Without God’s Truth, believers will not mature, and the lost cannot be saved (Romans 10:17). Our desire is to help in the salvation of souls and the process of maturing His saints by making His Truth available through the medium of the internet to people of many different languages. For this reason, we chose to name our group the Aletheia Project since the Greek word aletheia means truth.
The Aletheia Project is a student-led organization associated with Ambassador Baptist College. We had our beginning on November 10, 2005, during a Mission Prayer Band meeting when Pastor Norman Johnston, the missions professor at Ambassador Baptist College, presented the idea of placing the Bible and other Christian resources on the Internet. The Aletheia Project’s mission statement is as follows: “Our mission is to use the Internet to reach the lost with the Gospel and to help believers to grow in grace.” We endeavor to accomplish this by making language-specific websites containing not only the Bible but also many resources, such as tracts, testimonies, discipleship materials, sermons, Christ-honoring music, and a list of good Independent Baptist churches and missionaries that minister to people of that language.
Since 2005, the Aletheia Project has made four websites. The first website the Aletheia Project did was www.thefrenchbible.com, (also registered as www.labiblefrancaise.com). After finishing the French site, we made a website for the Aletheia Project (www.aletheiaproject.com) to explain who we are and what we do. In 2007, Armed Forces Baptist Missions approached us with idea of making a website geared towards the military. That idea then became our third website, www.heroesbible.com. The fourth website we made was done with the Deaf in mind, and it is found at www.thedeafbible.com.
There are several projects on which we are currently working. One is a website in the Sranantongo language, the main language of Suriname. The Bible is available and has been formatted for the website, as well as many complementary materials. We are now working on designing the actual website. Another project that the Aletheia Project has undertaken is a website for the Slovenian language and a Slovenian dialect, Prekmurian. This work is especially exciting because Slovenia is an especially needy country: the first independent Baptist missionaries have been in the country for just two years. We are also completing work on a Russian website. Furthermore, we have as an ongoing project collecting materials for a variety of languages, including, and starting work on websites for Urdu, Romanian, Korean, and Tagalog, and Portuguese. These materials will help us to create a website in these languages in the future.
Please pray for us as we try to spread the truth that we often take for granted as American Christians. Much work is involved in making a website, and many of us are busy as students. If you would like to know more about us, please feel free to subsribe to our Newsletter Email updates and visit the rest of our websites. Also, please tell others about our sites, so that they can see what the Lord is doing and benefit from the material.
