What is the Pacific S.A.L.T. course?

"The goal of all we do is to see the Scriptures being used effectively and lives being changed; and our aim is to show the relevance of the Scriptures in all aspects of life."

Partnering with community churches, National Bible Translation Organizations (NBTO), translators and literacy workers, our multi-national, inter-denominational teaching teams seek to inspire the application of the translated scriptures in the lives of national pastors and church leaders who have limited access to Biblical training.

Translating and distributing the Scriptures is the first step. Then, for communities and nations to be transformed by the translated Scriptures, people need to encounter God’s Word in life-changing ways.

That’s exactly what happens in a Pacific S.A.L.T. course — an intensive two-week training session designed to equip local church leaders with outreach techniques, encourage the use of the translated Scriptures, and promote an understanding of God’s Word in their own language.

At the conclusion of each course, the participants conduct an outreach in the surrounding villages to teach, in their heart language, what they have learned. During these outreaches, people are often moved by the Holy Spirit to reconcile with their neighbors. The results can be a time of prayer in which land disputes and clan feuds are settled and relationships healed; and divorced couples have even reconciled and remarried.

Pacific S.A.L.T. is impacting younger generations as well. School principals in Papua New Guinea are using the S.A.L.T. materials to teach children about God and foster a Christian worldview.

In addition to impacting lives in very tangible ways, the Pacific S.A.L.T. course is also helping to advance Bible translation in the Pacific by creating a hunger within local church leaders to study God’s Word — and teach it — in their heart language.