Translation is transformation

Hendrik Van Aswegen is the prayer coordinator for The Word for the World, an organization committed to equip local communities around the world to translate the Bible into their own language. “Our vision is to see transformed lives by the power of God’s Word in everyone’s heart language. Prayer is the foundation of this vision, aligning our hearts with the Lord and uniting us as we carry out His Mission.” With a passion for mobilizing the church to pray for bible translation, he has set a goal to mobilize 1000 churches to join in this important effort. Hendrik’s deep commitment to this cause is rooted in his belief that every person deserves access to God’s Word, no matter their language or location.

Solomon Lujan is the Global Director of Prayer and Partnerships for Seed Company, a Bible translation ministry working to reach every people group without any Scripture by 2025. For 18 years he has served in the prayer-missions movement beginning in Jerusalem, Israel. He is the founder of the Pray for Zero movement which has united the prayer, missions and Bible translation movements towards fulfillment of the Great Commission. He is as well the lead facilitator for a virtual prayer movement called UP (Unceasing Prayer-Bible Translation). Solomon has a Masters of Education and is currently working on his Masters of Divinity in Messianic Jewish Studies. He resides in Greenville, South Carolina with his lovely wife, Kol, and his four daughters, Selah, Kaya, Aliyah and Ava.

Kanita Rutley is a missiologist, humanitarian, speaker, worship artist & Bible teacher. After answering the call to full-time ministry in 2013, she has had the privilege to work alongside multiple global Bible translation, engagement, prayer mobilization and evangelism initiatives. She currently serves as the new Global Manager of Prayer Mobilization at Seed Company; a leading Bible translation organization part of the Every Tribe Every Nation (ETEN) Alliance, working to engage every Bibleless language across the globe with Scripture. Prior to Seed Company, she served as Director of Intercultural Prayer & Missions for the National Day of Prayer, and on American Bible Society’s inaugural Prayer Mobilization team. She is also the founder of She Saves a Nation, a global nonprofit & disciple making initiative that empowers displaced girls in Africa and Asia to become leaders & agents of change within their nation and around the world. She also serves as a global missions mobilizer, rallying the Church toward the Great Commission call, engaging marginalized groups to take their place in God’s global mission, and equipping missionaries to proclaim the Good News to the nations. As an evolving African-American female missiologist, she has become a voice on global missions mobilization on several podcasts, seminars, and missions platforms. Kanita is currently pursuing a Doctor of Missiology at Fuller Theological Seminary. She is recently married to her beloved husband, Minister Ryan Rutley, and they are the proud parents of two daughters, Rayn and Kierstyn. Kanita is a disciple who carries a passion to equip the church understand God’s Word and His mission in the world, becoming mature believers desperate to know God and determined to make Him known.

Breanne Heine is a follower of Jesus, college student, and disciple-maker with a heart for all nations to know the God of the Bible. From a young age, she found joy sharing
her faith with those who had not yet heard the gospel and felt called to obey God missionally in her school and beyond. She has worked with a variety of ministries throughout high school and college, as well as professionally with multiple marketing agencies.
She is currently in her final year at Liberty University studying Marketing and Global Studies, with the hope of utilizing business to magnify the name of Jesus across the street and around the world.

Breanne loves studying what God’s Word has to say about discipleship and prayer, and she aims to glorify God and mobilize her generation to engage with God’s heart for the
world. She has been part of the Seed Company family for over a year and looks forward to continuing to foster kingdom relationships through the Pray for Zero Movement!

Carrie first heard about Seed Company through family members. However, she found about the position for a volunteer prayer advocate through a friend. Now, she gets to pray with, for, and over our staff, prayer partners, and investors, and gets to send them encouraging notes from time to time.

Lindsay and his amazing wife, Lola, have been serving in the prayer space with Wycliffe Bible Translators Australia and SIL Pacific since 2019. From 2021, they have also been serving with Pray For Zero Pacific. Lindsay worked in economics research for over 20 years before the Holy Spirit gave him an insight into God’s grief for those without God’s Word. Then in 2019, Lindsay and Lola were convicted that the Church needed targeted prayer to reach each language group with God’s Word. This is their calling. Lindsay and Lola have three daughters. They currently live in Melbourne, Australia.

Lola is from Papua New Guinea. English is her main language, but she also grew up speaking Roro, her mother’s language and Sinagoro, her father’s language, as well as Tok Pisin and Motu. Lola began her work life as a medical lab scientist, before training teachers in Port Moresby’s settlements in 2009-12. She was teaching English to refugees when the Lord called her into the work of Bible translation. Lola joined Wycliffe Australia and SIL Pacific in 2019. She serves with Lindsay as a prayer facilitator for the Pacific and as Wycliffe Australia’s prayer coordinator. In 2020, she was appointed by PNG BTA as their ambassador in Melbourne. From 2021 she has also been serving with Pray For Zero Pacific. Lola and Lindsay live in Melbourne with their three daughters.

Tina Hopkins is a passionate follower of Jesus Christ. This love relationship is the foundation of her life and out of that flows a love and light that impacts every person she meets. People are immediately drawn to Tina’s cheerful, magnetic personality that exudes the love of Jesus.

She is a relationship builder and lives out the words Jesus spoke about people knowing we’re His disciples by how we love. She sees every person as the imago Dei, an image bearer of God Himself. Her life purpose is seeing people set free by understanding their true identity in Christ. She fully believes a person can discover who they are and whose they are through the pages of Scripture. This is why she cherishes God’s Word from the bottom of her heart. Zephaniah 3:17 is one of her favorite verses which states in part “the Lord will rejoice over you with loud singing” and Tina wants others to know that same truth. She often says it is the Word of the living God that sustained her through her darkest days and continues to sustain her. The power and freedom revealed to her as she has hidden Scripture in her heart is what drives her passion, prayers, and calling for every person to have the Bible in their heart language. When she answered the call to ministry to serve in Bible translation, she knew without a doubt this was what God had been preparing her for. Tina says God lit a fire in her bones for His Word and it’s now her hope that others will catch that same fire.

As the Pray for Zero Journal Manager at Seed Company, Rebecca Gorman connects praying people with the real-time needs of Bible translators around the world. She believes those who pray are an integral part of Bible translation teams on the ground and wants to equip them to intercede passionately and strategically.

Because of Revelation 7:9, we know how this story ends. We know Jesus has the victory. What a joy to be swept up in the middle of the story he is writing and to play such a crucial part in reaching all nations with his love!