News from our field
Director’s Note: “Expanding from 40 to 100 Languages in the Coming Years”
“In the coming years, we aim to scale our outreach from forty to one hundred languages,” says Frans de Lange, Director of GlobalRize. “AI offers possibilities that were simply unavailable before. We are currently in the experimental phase, and the developments are incredibly promising. God is opening unprecedented doors to invite people to the Wedding Feast of the Lamb!”
“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’” (Matthew 22:8-9, NIV)
Frans de Lange: “This passage recently struck a chord with me regarding GlobalRize’s mission. We hope to expand the number of languages in which we share the Gospel from forty to one hundred over the next few years. With the potential of AI—specifically as a translation tool—it is becoming possible for us to engage with people worldwide in their own native tongue. We are currently testing this in Indonesian, and the initial results are very encouraging. These developments truly give us great hope.
This scripture moved me because the Lord calls us to ‘go to the street corners and invite anyone you find.’ What an incredible mandate we have been given! Through our online marketers, we can strategically reach those digital ‘highways and byways’ to find people who are open to the invitation to the Wedding Feast of the Lamb.
It is my prayer that in 2026, we may teach and invite even more people to attend this wedding. The scripture notes that the servants gathered ‘all the people they could find, the remaining bad as well as the good.’ What a challenging and beautiful mission we have! Let us pray that by 2026, this mission leads to many new guests at the feast!
- Pray that 2026 will be a year where many new guests are welcomed from every corner of the globe!
- Pray for creativity and wisdom to discern which new technologies and opportunities can be used to further the spread of the Gospel.