A Ghanaian JESUS Film team member translates French for a Harvest Partner

Think of something, anything: your favorite food, your first kiss, how do your feet feel?

Most likely, you thought in the language you spoke growing up, the one easiest for you to understand and converse in. This is what we at JFHP call your heart language. This is the language your mother said “clean your room,” in, the language you speak when whispering “I love you.”

The most effective way to communicate with someone is through their heart language, but many people only hear about Christ through their trade language, which includes the language spoken at work, or the language used on government documents.  Communication is what is heard, not just what is said or written. The goal is for the meaning of what is said to equal the meaning of what is heard. For an example in English, think of “their,” “there,” and “they’re”—if English is your heart language, the meaning behind the words change, and you better understand what is trying to be said.

If heart language is the most effective way to communicate with someone, shouldn’t the Gospel be communicated through one’s heart language?

JESUS Film Harvest Partners has teamed with The JESUS Film Project to make the Gospel available to people who may otherwise never hear about Jesus in their heart language. Can you imagine never hearing about Christ in language you think in? JFHP uses over 290 different translations of the JESUS Film to properly communicate—in ways best understood by the listeners and viewers—the life of Jesus Christ.

Through these translations, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is penetrating to the hearts of people and radically changing lives.

Want to see how JESUS works in hundreds of heart languages? Join us on a Partner Trip in 2012!

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