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SIL Philippines Contributes Photographs to Prestigious Encyclopedia

By Samuel Ko | Jan 8, 2019

Several hundred images from SIL Philippines’ photo archive collection are gracing the pages of a large, prestigious encyclopedia, recently revised and published by the Cultural Center of the Philippines

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Link: Kenya’s Rendille People Receive God’s Word

By Samuel Ko | Jan 4, 2019

In this Nov. 2018 article in Christianity Today, Canadian author and speaker Ann Voskamp describes the Rendille’s joy as they dedicate their own New Testament translation. Read the CT story

Take My Pyakende Upon You

By Guest Contributor | Jan 3, 2019

The concept of a yoke placed on animals is completely foreign [in this language group]. Thus, we have struggled greatly in our attempt to translate Matthew 11: 29-30.

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Wycliffe mourns former director Jim Dean

By Wycliffe Canada | Dec 24, 2018

Dr. Jim Dean, director of Wycliffe Bible Translators of Canada from 1976 to 1986, died Dec. 24 after an extended illness. He was 96. Jim is survived by his five children—Sheri Stewart in greater Toronto, Timothy in Arizona, Roseann McCool…

Curious About Christmas

By Samuel Ko | Dec 17, 2018

One day, two Bible translators came to visit. They brought booklets, called The Christmas Story, in the mother tongue of the villagers. The entire community was invited to hear the story.

Loving This “Fishbowl” Life

By Guest Contributor | Dec 14, 2018

Here’s the super cool thing: people here care and they meet you where you’re at.

‘I want to make Jesus my King’

By Samuel Ko | Dec 4, 2018

For many elderly people in minority language groups around the world, God’s Word is only now coming to them in a language they can understand. They are learning about faith in Christ in their sunset years.

A good example is an African man in his 80s named Taapro, living on the Ndop Plain of Cameroon. He was known as a liar and a thief, and he feared traditional spirits.

‘Why have you come?’

By Samuel Ko | Nov 29, 2018

No matter how long you have been a believer, the Bible is essential for teaching us more about the Lord and the way He wants us to live. God’s goal is to move us from simply being converts to being…

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Alaska celebrates Yupik Bible recording

By Samuel Ko | Nov 27, 2018

In 1959, Wycliffe Bible Translators sent two young linguists, David and Mitzi Shinen, to Gambell, Alaska. There they spent a few years learning the Yupik language and then started translating the New Testament. A careful and accurate translation from the…

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Latin Americans embrace missions call to Southeast Asia

By Doug Lockhart | Nov 19, 2018

“We believe God is raising up a new wave of missionaries from Latin America for the Bible translation task in Southeast Asia.