Word Alive Now Blog
I had a firm conviction that God was in a hurry to save the Canelas and all the rest of the world and that therefore, I should be too.
The 23rd edition of Ethnologue, an authoritative catalogue of the world’s languages, is now available online. First published in 1951 by SIL International, Wycliffe’s key partner organization, the latest edition is the result of more than 18,000 updates that have…
Software developers are enabling Bible translation around the world. They’re people like Brian Chapaitis, who left his high-paying job in corporate engineering to serve in Papua New Guinea alongside his wife and family. Soon Brian found himself working on cutting-edge…
About 200 staff members and guests gathered in Jakarta this past November to celebrate 30 years of ministry by Kartidaya, Wycliffe’s oldest partner organization in Indonesia. Dressed in traditional costumes, and holding up various completed translations and Scripture materials, Kartidaya…
The board of directors of LETRA, Wycliffe’s partner organization in Chile, has announced that Génesis Cepeda and her husband Camilo Paredes have been appointed as the organization’s new executive directors. They took over the role in December 2019. Cepeda previously…
“Every morning when I wake up . . . I close my eyes and see a vision of me standing in a wide, open green field, holding up the Bible my wife is going to help translate. . . .”
Robert, a farmer in Ghana, Africa, was comforted along with his four sons by God’s Word after the death of his wife. He seemed to be doing well, but his heart broke when the season for planting seeds arrived.
Six representatives from SIL, Wycliffe’s key partner organization, recently attended the Language Technologies for All Conference (LT4All) at UNESCO Paris from Dec. 4-6, 2019. The SIL team joined participants from major technology platforms including Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, Hanson Robotics,…