People

A translator with the Southern Pastaza Quechua project hears God speak through His translated Word.

After completing the New Testament, a translator makes the difficult decision to leave a language community she has grown to love.

John Wycliffe’s translation of the Bible into English in the 14th century made God’s Word accessible to ordinary people for the first time, and laid the foundation for future Bible translations.

On a recent trip to Peru, the Keeler family saw firsthand the importance of having access to Scripture in your heart language.

The Bible translation movement desperately needs more translation consultants. In Peru, two fathers from very different backgrounds are training to fill this crucial role.

As a volunteer with Wycliffe Canada, Miguel Montes serves in a role that some might call tailor-made. When he’s not working at his main job as a field service engineer for a scientific company in Kelowna, B.C., he devotes two to three days a week to his role as a field partner liaison (FPL), serving both Wycliffe Canada and a Bible translation partner agency in Peru.

A young woman trades her dream of “a simple life” to prepare for Bible translation work in Southeast Asia

“If we care about people actually having life in the world,” says writer and speaker Ann Voskamp, “. . . how can they know what it means to be fully human apart from God’s Word?”

“I intended to make the navy a career, but after about 12 years on active duty, my first child was born, and my father died from cancer. I started to question my future and my priorities. I prayed for the Lord to show me the way.”

My wife Jo and I are revising, before we publish, our memoir covering 24 years of ministry in Brazil and what God did through us. Our God-given mission goal was to translate a large part of the Bible into the…