Ten Commandments for Short Term Mission

These ten commandments are not new, but as the season begins in the northern hemisphere when many Christians, young and older, begin to think about which mission trip to go on in summer 2011 – they are very timely and worth reading. For quite a few years I was responsible for Wycliffe UK’s summer teams. [...]

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We’re off on holiday!

As bright and early as possible after a 6oth birthday party here this evening [no, not mine this time] we’re driving south and west on a camping holiday, first of all to Renvyle in Connemara… And here’s a map… I’ll post some of my own photos in the fullness of time. Meanwhile the Wycliffe Engage [...]

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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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Wycliffe Engage? I love it!

A week and a half on from Wycliffe UK Engage Orientation weekend 2010… and it’s past time when I ought to have blogged. So here goes… letting some pictures tell the story! Thanks to an volcano in Iceland, Stephanie, Lynda and I travelled by ferry and car not plane… … and saw Liverpool by dawn! [...]

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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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A recipe for progressing Vision 2025

Yes, here it is! A possible recipe for progressing Vision 2025… Ingredients: A Bible translator whose love of Ivorian grammar has just earned him a PhD An electronics engineer who was language programmes manager in Uganda A 25 year old girl who helped 10 Eastern Congo languages to produce picture dictionaries A girl who helped [...]

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“Why do Engage? Because it’s amazing!”

Application forms for Wycliffe Engage 2010 summer teams went live on the website very recently – and it prompted 2009 Cameroon Engage team member Ben to take up his pen… I saw recently that the application forms for Engage 2010 are available and it prompted me to write something about why I think Engage is [...]

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Short term versus long term mission debate

Eddie Arthur recently posted a blog under the title Am I a Dinosaur? Some things take a long time. Bible translation is an excellent example of a facet of mission work which involves a long term commitment. Some missionaries are directly involved in translating … and others are involved in training or consulting, but all [...]

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Short term “missions” debate

Wycliffe Bible Translators UK has sent three all age Engage summer teams overseas this year: one to Cambodia in partnership with Action Cambodia; one to Burkina Faso; and the third which will return from Cameroon in a few days time. We believe that these teams have been successful, but we will certainly be reviewing the [...]

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Jayne’s reflections on Burkina Faso

One of the joys of my job, is hearing how our Wycliffe UK Engage Team members reflect on their summer experience. Music student Jayne has recently returned from Engage Burkina Faso and has written an excellent account for us. Everything we did was fantastic, and for me it was a wonderful introduction to Burkina Faso [...]

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