HARMS, Jeff and Lenice

Jeff serves Wycliffe personnel as a coach, helping guide people through difficult decisions, transitions as well as helping new members and people who are low on support. Quite a switch from the aircraft maintenance he did in Indonesia!

Lenice continues with the Papuan Malay translation team, now remotely. She also assists other teams as a translation consultant and linguistics consultant.

Papuan Malay is spoken by more than two million people as a first language, in all the urban and coastal areas of Papua. It is also spoken by many others in Papua as a second language. The Papuan Malay New Testament is nearing completion and the team is now working hard on all of the final consistency checks. They are planning for publication in 2027 and dedication in early 2028. The team is also starting to work on the Old Testament.