Wycliffe:Live October 2011 – Part One

The MAF plane flew into Korupun, West Papua in Indonesia – bringing the Kimyal New Testament to the Kimyal people. As the elders received the first box of New Testaments, one of the pastors prayed to God: The month that you had set, the day that you has set, has come to pass today… You [...]

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Niffer Davey: Beyond our dreams

Wycliffe UK’s Blog had a story on 15 September about a Wycliffe Bible Translators consultant from N. Ireland, Jennifer Niffer Davey entitled Beyond Our Dreams. Niffer Davey has been working as a translation consultant with a group of languages in Nigeria for the past five years. These languages have all been simultaneously translating the gospel [...]

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How 12 language groups in Nigeria are getting the first gospel in their language

I came across this prayer request on one of our Wycliffe networks recently and it sparked some thoughts… From mid-September to mid-October, three translators will meet with a consultant. Their drafts of Luke 19-24 are handwritten. The first week, time will be used in typing what the team agrees on as most natural. Then this team [...]

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New Horizon #nh2010

Last week from 17-23 July, I was at New Horizon. New Horizon has been going at Coleraine University since summer 1989 – the year we left N. Ireland to teach at Vavoua International School in Ivory Coast as members of Wycliffe Bible Translators. In recent years Hope Street (the mission zone at New Horizon) has [...]

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Things Come Together

“…students come from more than a dozen denominations and spoke 28 different mother tongues” Nigeria has more than 300 languages without a translation of the Bible THE CONTEXT: There is a Bible translation training programme at the Theological College of Northern Nigeria (TCNN).  Last time we checked the Bible translation students came from more than [...]

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Sadness and Joy in Nigeria visit

Wycliffe UK colleagues Kent and Tim have recently returned from Nigeria where they were information gathering for a 28 venue UK tour of the Bible overview drama From Eden to Eternity which will feature a cluster of Nigerian languages that are just beginning translation. Kent writes about his mixed feelings of sadness and joy… I [...]

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Translation progress in Nigeria

It was once my pleasure to be a colleague of Sue Arthur in Ivory Coast. Now Sue, wife of my boss Eddie, is a translation consultant and a few days ago she posted a lovely story about her recent consulting trip to Nigeria – read it here. I think it’s worth a look for two [...]

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