It is true that most of the indigenous translation work for the Bible Society in Australia involve relatively small language groups particularly by global standards. The largest spoken Australian Indigenous languages have approximately 30,000 speakers (Kriol and Yumplatok/Torres Strait Creole) with most of these languages having between 500 – 1,000 speakers, some with less than a dozen fluent speakers. While these numbers do not compare to the numbers of speakers of most of the world’s languages, for example China’s minority speakers, some 8% of their total population still constitute around 100 million people. We believe the Gospel relates to people individually therefore it is vital that each individual has the opportunity to hear God’s Word in their own language. The parable of the 100 sheep whereby the shepherd willingly leaves the 99 safe while he ventures out looking for the single lost sheep paints an images of God’s economy and his heart for the individual who is lost. A result of working with a small number of language speakers is that problems arise with production and publication costs due to the economy of scale. It is far more expensive per item to produce a small print run that to produce tens of thousands of copies, but unfortunately there isn’t the demand for these large numbers in most remote communities.