Impact Report 2025 - Report - Page 19
The journey to the
Isnag Bible began 66
years before their completed
Scripture was celebrated by
the community in June 2023.
Throughout the decades of
translation work, individuals
and churches partnered with the
Isnag to see the work funded.
The Generosity of a Young Child
Nard Pugyao is an Isnag believer who
first heard about Christ as a young boy
because of that work. He later joined
Wycliffe and became a missionary
pilot and strong advocate in the U.S.
for his community back in the northern
part of the Philippines.
When it was time for the translated Bible to be
printed, Nard was working to raise $87,000 to print
5,000 copies — approximately $18 per book. A
Good News Club in Georgia had learned about his
story and invited him to speak. He
shared about how the full Isnag
Bible was finally complete!
While there, a 5-year-old girl
named Kori came up to Nard
and gave him a small plastic
bag full of coins. It was so
heavy that she could barely
hold it! He asked her where
she’d gotten the coins.
That’s when Kori told
Nard that every Christmas,
her grandfather chooses one
grandchild to give a year’s worth
of loose change to. And this year, it was Kori’s turn! But
Kori didn’t want to keep it for herself — she wanted to
give it to help print the Isnag Bible so people could learn
about Jesus, just like she had. In that moment, Kori gave it
all — $42 in loose change. Her extravagant generosity helped
bring the Word of God to the Isnag community.
When Nard arrived in Manila, Philippines, and
got his first copy of the Isnag Bible, he lifted
it up and thought of young Kori. “This was the
Bible she bought with her $42,” Nard remembered.
“At that moment, I thought of all the people who
gave so much to us Isnags, from the young like
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Kori to the old like those who supported the
multigenerational
Isnag translation since 1954! God has used
journey toward the
all kinds of people from all walks of life to
Isnag full Bible!
bring His Word to us Isnags because the
Word of God endures forever.”
