Can you see yourself here?

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The IKEA approach to Bible translation..?

A lot of people were sharing this cartoon on Facebook a few weeks ago. I liked it and it occurred to me that very often in life in general and in work in particular, all the ingredients of a project or a problem or a decision or an event or a whatever are there… only [...]

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Wycliffe’s Vision 2025… a vision for this generation

“No language group should be considered reached until they have the Scriptures available in their mother tongue as the foundation for building sustainable Christian thought, life and community.” —Rev. Dr. Kwame Bediako, Ghana I remember this so well. We were not long home from eight years with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Ivory Coast teaching missionary [...]

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The Word is Life

  The new Presbyterian Moderator, Rev Dr Ivan Patterson, will be installed following the opening of the church’s General Assembly in Belfast on Monday. Dr Patterson, 62, has been minister of Newcastle Presbyterian Church in County Down for the last 20 years and succeeds outgoing moderator Dr Norman Hamilton. He was ordained in 1980 and [...]

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“We have the Bible, but we don’t read it very much”

Next Tuesday at the General Assembly, Norman Hamilton will complete his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and will hand over to Rev Ivan Patterson of Newcastle Presbyterian Church. The year quickly passes, but Norman found the time to spend a morning with us at the Wycliffe office in Belfast. Read about [...]

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Presbyterian Moderator visits Wycliffe’s Belfast office

Starting with some excellent scones and coffee, we had several hours of stimulating conversation on the growing partnership between Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. We touched on how teens and young adults understand mission: how different is their understanding to that of the older generation in terms of prayer and support? [...]

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Wonder where the day went?

Yesterday was just one of those days. It started well, I got to the office early and took time to read my E100 passage in Exodus 1 & 2.  Just before Lois, our work experience Sixth former, reported for duty, the Oki printer proclaimed “Fatal Error Message”. But I’ve learned not to trust a printer [...]

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Churches and Mission Agencies

One of the questions which increasingly concerns me in my ‘day job’ with Wycliffe Bible Translators is how churches and mission agencies should work together. This is obviously extremely important to an organisation such as ours which can only exist as long as churches continue to provide resources for the agency. This question is increasingly my [...]

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Wycliffe Engage Team on PCI website

Clare Orr, a member of Newtownbreda (St John’s) Presbyterian Church, leaves on 2nd July to join a Wycliffe Engage Team going to Indonesia, where they will spend a month with a local Bible translation organisation on the island of Kalimantan. I am pleased to see our partnership between Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Presbyterian Church [...]

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New Mission Agencies Partnership website is live!

Wycliffe Bible Translators UK is a member of MAP – the Mission Agencies Partnership in N. Ireland. MAP is made up of a group of 45 mission agencies who have come together to form a partnership. At the heart of this partnership is the strong belief that by working together member agencies can be more [...]

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