You Can Help With Bible Translation

In our last email, we shared how God has called our family to move overseas to serve in Bible translation. In this email, we want to share how you can be a part of helping bibleless people receive God’s Word in their own language.

Help Through Prayer

Although it’s often difficult and may even seem ineffective, your prayers are impacting Bible translation.

It was November 1983 when David and Ray began praying for a Bible to be translated into the language of the Juni people, a community of 40,000 people in Sudan.

In May 1986, Jerry and Jan began praying.

In March 1990 Jane and Margie did, too.

Time passed.

In August 1990, they heard exciting news:

• The same month that David and Ray began praying, a young Juni man became a Christian.
• The month Jerry and Jan began to pray, this young man started studying theology.
• The year Jane and Margie began praying, he was accepted as a Bible translation student.

Thirty years after people began praying, the New Testament was completed in the language of the Juni people.

Your prayers really do matter, whether results take a long time or happen right away.

Help Through Financial Partnership

Another way you can help is by investing financially as God has blessed you. Wycliffe is a faith mission. This means we are responsible to build a team of partners who will invest financially in our Wycliffe ministry.

Translation takes a team

Throughout the Bible, we see examples of how God uses His people to provide for His servants. In the Old Testament, the Israelites tithed to provide for the priests and tabernacle workers (Num. 18). In the New Testament, both individual Christians and churches gave generously to support the apostles and missionaries (II Cor. 9; Phil. 4). The gospel of Luke mentions by name Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Susanna as individuals who were “contributing from their own resources to support Jesus and his disciples.” (Luke 8:1‑3)

We thank God for several one-time gifts and for those who have already committed to give regularly. We cannot do this work alone. Before Wycliffe releases us to move overseas, we need commitments that cover our entire monthly budget.

God is not limited by resources. He owns everything. Because we are confident He has called us to Bible translation, we are trusting that He will provide the means to enable us to go.

Traveling to build our partnership team

Right now, we are here in the US with our gifts and abilities, but the great need in Bible translation is overseas. Will you consider how you can help us get from here to there?

Invest in Bible Translation

“And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus. Now all glory to God our Father forever and ever.” Philippians 4:19-20

Because many are still waiting, Harold, Justine, A’zalea, & Andrew