Ministry Bible Translation Ministry Website Template
Every Tongue
Every Tongue Project is a small Texas ministry that pays, trains and supports mother-tongue Bible translators in 38 languages. The site has to explain a slow, careful process to churches that give, while protecting translators who work in places where their faces and village names cannot appear online.
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- Built for
- Church mission committees, individual sponsors and prayer partners across the US, plus translators and consultants who check the site for schedules and downloads.
- Navigation
- Contents column. A right-hand contents list tracks where you are on long pages, the way a well-made book or report does.
Names, photos, times and stories in this template are sample content. Your version uses your own words, photos and branding.
Why it looks this way.
- Typography
The whole site is set in the IBM Plex family: Serif for headings, Sans for reading and Mono for labels and verse references. Translation is engineering with words, and Plex was drawn for engineers, with very clear figures and broad support for diacritics. One superfamily also mirrors the discipline of the work: consistent, checked, nothing decorative for its own sake.
- IBM Plex Serif headlines
- IBM Plex Sans body text
- IBM Plex Mono labels
- Color
The red is rubric, the iron-oxide red scribes used for headings and initials in manuscript Bibles; it is also close to the color of a consultant's correction pen. The teal is verdigris from old bindings, and the background is the gray-green of ledger paper rather than parchment cream. In dark mode the rubric lightens to coral so it keeps its contrast on a deep green-black.
- Page
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- Page
- Layout
Long pages with a contents column on the right, because visitors here read. A mission committee preparing a budget report wants to jump to the figures, a prayer partner to the language they adopted. The column shows where you are on the page without hiding the main navigation.
Pages: Home, How it works, The languages, Translators, Sponsor, Pray, Visit us
- Hero
The opening number is verses approved this year. It is the honest unit of the work: a verse goes on the count only after a consultant signs it off. It sits full width, large enough to read from the back of a church foyer when it goes up on a mission Sunday slide.
- Calls to action
'Sponsor a chapter' is the primary action because a chapter is a real, fundable unit: about one month of a team's time. 'Adopt a language in prayer' is the second door, deliberately given equal weight on the home page, because many supporters will never give large sums but will pray for one people group for years.
- Photography
Field photographs never show translators' faces in sensitive regions, and language names are replaced with letters where needed, which is standard practice in this field. Portraits appear only for team members who have agreed to it. We favour desks, pages and gatherings around a reading over landscapes, because the story is people working with words.
- Accessibility
Every color pair passes WCAG AA in both themes, including the red labels. The contents column is a real ordered list of links, so screen-reader users can navigate long pages by section. Audio samples come with text, and nothing important is carried by color alone.
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