The legacy of a 60-year friendship and Scripture engagement

Dr Joseph Havel is a retired forestry officer now living in Western Australia. He has been a faithful supporter of Bible translation through the years, giving in various ways to Vision 2025 projects, ...

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Answers to a 'utopian' prayer

How do you revive a translation project when everything seems to keep getting stalled? David shares how prayer has opened up new possibilities that have brought new life to the Anmatyerr project in Central Australia.

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Hungry for God's Word: reaching a new generation

Discover how a reading competition developed excitement for God's Word among the Bwana-Bwana young people.

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Why do we need ANOTHER version of the English Bible?

Discover why the Plain English Version is a helpful tool for Indigenous communities currently without Scripture in their heart languages and how it is helping with front translations of Australian Aboriginal languages.

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Bringing Jesus into the kitchen: The benefit of local partnership

Yenny explains that for the Rampi people to have Scripture available in their own language, Jesus suddenly becomes more accessible to them. No longer is he a stranger from a foreign religion but a friend who loves them and knows them more intimately than their own family.

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Faith like Abraham and Isaiah: How the Bible came alive for Yos

God was sending me to live in a different town to my family, to be a witness to my own people. I began to feel that this was a call from God. That call is now very strong. That I would join this team and start with what I long to see for my people. That they would know God more.

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Because we are there

Bible translation is not simply a technical exercise. It is primarily dependent on relationships and friendships, built up and sustained over a long period of time. It is cultivated by the sharing of lives; of joys and sufferings.

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Musings from one who has lost her heritage language

Through my years of involvement with Wycliffe, I have become aware of the many factors that contribute to an individual or a community consciously or subconsciously giving up their heritage language.

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Meet Elsi

Elsi, from Kalimantan, Indonesia, speaks six languages. Last year Elsi came to the Wycliffe National Centre at Kangaroo Ground to improve her English.

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Why do I work in a ‘dying’ language?

Where I work, the youth don’t speak their heritage language – they’ve ‘shifted’ to using a regional dialect of the national language.

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Thanks for your patience...

Waiting is hard, isn't it. But imagine waiting 2000 years for Scripture in your language! Thanks for your patience. And thanks for your generous support which will help bring the long wait to an end...