'Michael Jordan of Bible Translation': Meet the Greatest Missionary You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

'Michael Jordan of Bible Translation': Meet the Greatest Missionary You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

“Do you want to meet the Michael Jordan of Bible translation?”

‘Michael Jordan of Bible Translation’: Meet the Greatest Missionary You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

“Do you want to meet the Michael Jordan of Bible translation?” It was early in the 2010s, and Jordan Monson was a low-level Bible translation intern. He was attending a conference when a friend posed that question to him. Unsure who it might be, Monson assented to the offer and was understandably surprised when he turned to see an English woman in her early 70s with a bit of a limp walking toward him. “I noticed around the room as all of these s…