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From adventure racing in the Rockies to Vision Trips in South Asia, Wycliffe Canada engages young adults in the Bible translation movement.

Foreword Spring 2010 t 7PMVNF 28 t /VNCFS 1 Word Alive, which takes its name from Hebrews 4:12a, is the official publication of Wycliffe Bible Translators of Canada. Its mission is to inform, inspire and involve the Christian public as partners in the worldwide Bible translation movement.

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Designer: Laird Salkeld Senior Staff Writer: Doug Lockhart Staff Writers: Janet Seever, Deborah Crough Staff Photographers: Alan Hood, Natasha Schmale Vice President of Communications: Dave Crough Word Alive is published four times annually by Wycliffe Bible Translators of Canada, 4316 10 St NE, Calgary, AB T2E 6K3. Copyright 2010 by Wycliffe Bible Translators of Canada. Permission to reprint articles and other magazine contents may be obtained by written request to the editor. A donation of $12 annually is suggested to cover the cost of printing and mailing the magazine. (Donate online or use the reply form in this issue.) Printed in Canada by McCallum Printing Group, Edmonton. Member: The Canadian Church Press, Evangelical Press Association. For additional copies: media_resources@wycliffe.ca To contact the editor: editor_wam@wycliffe.ca For address updates: circulation@wycliffe.ca Note to readers: References to “SIL� are occasionally made in Word Alive. SIL is a key partner organization, dedicated to training, language development and research, translation and literacy.

Wycliffe Canada Vision Statement: A world where translated Scriptures lead to transformed lives among people of all languages. Translating Scripture, Transforming Lives Together with partners worldwide, we serve indigenous people through language-related ministries, especially Bible translation and literacy. Our goal is to empower local communities to express God’s love in Word and deed—for personal, social and spiritual transformation. Wycliffe personnel currently serve globally in more than 1,300 language projects for more than 900 million people. However, about 2,250 minority groups still wait for the power of God working through their own languages. Wycliffe invites you to participate in this effort through prayer, service and funding. Canadian Head Office: 4316 10 St NE, Calgary, AB T2E 6K3. Phone: (403) 250-5411 or toll free 1-800-463-1143, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. mountain time. Fax: (403) 250-2623. Email: info@wycliffe.ca Cover: Having climbed a mountain and slid down a scree slope, participant Josef Brown in Wycliffe’s Race to 2025 rappels over a 10storey rock cliff on his way to the finish line, raising funds and awareness for Bible translation projects. Photograph by Natasha Schmale.

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Linda Maendel, a resident and teacher’s assistant at the Elm River Colony in Southern Manitoba, is the main translator of the stories. Wycliffe’s Dick Mueller, a linguistic/translation consultant, is assisting her (see Word Alive, Fall 2008). Wollmann is hopeful that the remaining two books, which have already been translated into Hutterisch, will be published in time for the International Conference for Hutterite Educators in August. The conference is attended by Hutterite educators from across North America. About 45,000 Hutterites live communally on 475 colonies in Canada and the U.S.

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ranslation of God’s Word into India’s many languages continues to progress at a good pace. Wycliffe India reported that at the end of August 2009, the Bible translation fraternity in India was working on 113 translations. India has complete Bibles in 70 languages and New Testaments in 60 languages. Considerable work still remains. There is a definite need for full or partial translation in 90 languages. Fifty-two languages still need survey research to determine their need for translation. The Bible translation effort (including Wycliffe India as an organization) must grow an estimated 300 per cent in order to begin work in all remaining languages needing translation by 2025, a Wycliffe International goal. The country’s population speaks about 460 different languages.

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ible translators and storytellers, working in six languages of Papua New Guinea (PNG), participated in a Bible storytelling course this past summer. During the course, 16 or more participants (such as Sineina Gela, pictured below), who serve with the Bible Translation Association in PNG, studied the life of David. They also collected cultural stories told in their languages that had similar themes to the David stories. Hearing these cultural stories told by good storytellers helped them discover the characteristics and techniques of a well-told tale. With this background, Wycliffe’s Jim and Janet Stahl then coached them to tell six stories about the Old Testament king. These new skills will equip the participants to use Bible storytelling to reach speakers of some of the hundreds of unwritten languages in PNG. Bible storytelling is a presentation of the Bible’s message in an oral form. For further information on Bible storytelling, visit <www.onestory.org>.

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bout 250 people from 30 different Bible agencies gathered in Dallas, Tex., this past October for a major international conference on developing theory and practice in Bible translation. Coming from more than 50 countries, the participants heard and discussed nearly 50 papers. They included topics in three major themes: Bible translation in culture, Bible translation and Scripture engagement, and Bible translation theory and practice. The five-day forum was co-sponsored by SIL International, Wycliffe’s key partner agency, and the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics.

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new, more flexible training program for African Bible translators has been launched by SIL, Wycliffe’s key partner organization. Called the Institute for the Development of Languages and Translation in Africa (SIL iDELTA), the program began with a four-week introductory, general training and assessment session in January. Subsequent courses will be offered to Africans in language learning, linguistics, literacy, translation and Scripture use, anthropology and language survey. Courses in the French language will be held in West and Central Africa, and in English in East Africa. SIL iDELTA will meet a felt need, says Dr. Leoma Gilley, director of the SIL Africa Area training initiative. “The African leaders requested that we offer accredited training in a modular fashion so that students could move toward a degree, but also continue to be involved in the work—to grow their vision while they improve their skills.”

n innovative and interactive website is giving easy access to 15,000 Scripture products in more than 3,000 languages. The Find a Bible site (www.findabible.net) provides the most comprehensive and current database ever assembled of Bible and Scripture portions in majority and minority languages. Many Scripture products noted on the site have never before been listed on the web. Users have a single place to search, download, view or listen to these Bibles. Find a Bible is a joint effort of the Forum of Bible Agencies International, of which Wycliffe Bible Translators is a member. The Forum is an alliance of agencies working to see God’s Word accessible and impacting people worldwide.

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IL, Wycliffe’s key partner organization, has developed a new computer program that makes it simpler to create reading primers for Africa’s 500-plus Bantu languages. The Bantu Literacy Tool (BLT) does a lot of tedious work that mother tongue authors and literacy specialists formerly had to do manually in creating primers. Primers are key in teaching people in oral language communities, like the Bantu, how to read their newly written language. Two hundred million speakers of Bantu languages in Africa are located from the equator to South Africa, and from Cameroon to Kenya. Since about half of the languages are without Scriptures, SIL is part of a multiorganizational effort to see Bible translation and literacy work proceed with greater speed, efficiency and quality (see Word Alive, Spring 2009).

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ranslation of the New Testament in the Romani mother tongue of Sinte Gypsies (Roma) of Europe is in its final stages for a scheduled publishing this year. Armin and Ursula Peter, Wycliffe members from Germany, have been working on the translation with several Romani speakers since 1995 (see Word Alive, Fall 2006). Their efforts are directed at an estimated 300,000 Sinte in Europe, including those in Germany (pictured at left), France, Holland and the former Yugoslavia. An audio recording of the Scriptures may also be produced, since most Sinte prefer to communicate orally. Video clips of some Bible stories have already been created to meet that need. While most Sinte in Germany showed little initial interest in a Bible translation into their mother tongue, that has changed in recent years. As one Sinte woman explains, “I still have a German Bible, but the text in Romani . . . speaks just the way I think!” Romani is but one of the 100-plus dialects spoken by the 12 million Roma worldwide, who are believed to originate from ancient tribal people in Northern India. A tiny percentage are Christian believers. New Testaments have already been translated into five Roma dialects in Europe and Chile.

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The racers—mostly Bible college students and young adults, ages 18-35, from Western Canada—have raised $160,000-plus. The money went to crucial Bible translation and literacy projects in Africa and Asia, sponsored by Wycliffe Canada’s partner, Global Partner Link (GPL). As well, energetic racers have attracted 1,000 first-time donors to Wycliffe and GPL, shared the vision for Bible translation with thousands of peers, and in a growing number of cases, are personally moving towards serving Bibleless people groups overseas.

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“We simply tion. He felt an urgency pushing his recruiting efforts to help fulfil Vision 2025. It is a commitment embraced by Wycliffe International leaders in 1999, to see Bible translation started for all the remaining languages that need it by 2025. NextGen was meeting many interested “seekers� at colleges, seminaries and universities, but there was a problem. “We simply had very little to offer,� says Friesen. “I longed to give them something significant they could do now, without leaving Canada.� In addition, the ratio of young women versus young men who were interested in missions was disheartening. More than 80 per cent of Friesen’s ministry contacts were female students. What could be done to capture the hearts and imaginations of young men especially? After giving a seminar at a Bible college missions conference, part of that answer came to Friesen through a young male student: “He quipped, ‘You know the problem with you missionaries is that you hold seminars. We (guys) don’t do seminars. . . . We gotta do stuff!’ � Over the years, Friesen has enjoyed outdoor activities in the Rockies with his sons, encountering many adventure sportsminded young people. An uncanny thought flashed into his mind during one mountain hike—UIFTF BSF UIF TPSUT OFFEFE GPS IBSE DPSF #JCMF USBOTMBUJPO JOJUJBUJWFT PO UIF GSPOUJFST PG NJTTJPOT Was there a way for Wycliffe, Friesen wondered, to do missions mobilization that meets such young people on their own turf, and somehow captures their hearts and imaginations for God’s heart for the nations? Now, the male student’s comment—to “do stuff �—struck Friesen as an “Aha!� moment. “So UIBU was the clincher for guys.� Just two weeks later came the middle-of-the-night brainwave at his home in Carstairs, Alta., which Friesen believes was Godinspired. As Friesen discussed the adventure race idea with his two sons, Wycliffe colleagues, friends and outdoor enthusiasts, the vision for Race to 2025 was born. Wycliffe needed somewhere to hold the race and someone qualified to host it. “We simply did not have the professional experience or even insurance to safely turn dozens of young adventure-seekers loose for two days on frigid mounMore On The Web: 'PS NPSF BCPVU 'SPOUJFS tain rivers and sheer 10-storey -PEHF WJTJU XXX GSPOUJFSMPEHF DB cliffs,� says Friesen. “God led us to Frontier Lodge, a Christian outdoor adventure camp with 50 years experience in the Rocky Mountains. It proved to be ‘a perfect match made in heaven!’ �

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tional stories from Wycliffe veterans and the new generation of personnel; and prayer and devotional times. For most racers, though, the highlight has been an ethnic village encounter with a people group from the region for which racers raised funds. The groups have included Sudanese, Ghanaians, Vietnamese and Indians. Racers have 45 minutes to interact with the “villagers,� during which time they eat an ethnic meal, learn a bit of their language, collect word lists and create sentences, make cultural observations and determine if the people need Scripture translation. Everyone learns and experiences something personal from Race to 2025. It might be the challenge of depending on God to raise funds before the event, enduring the physical demands of the race, or having their spiritual eyes opened to the need and work of Bible translation and their possible role in it. Mountain Revelation Take, for example, Kate (pseudonym), who hails from the former Soviet Union. “Immigrating to Canada as a young girl, she has always had an interest in languages,� explains Friesen, “but her parents discouraged her from pursuing formal training in linguistics, encouraging her instead to pursue music.� Friesen met Kate at Prairie Bible College in year two of a music degree, introducing her to the importance of Scriptures in the heart language. More academic than physical, Kate nonetheless joined a team from Prairie for the first-ever winter event, Race to 2025: SE Asia. Halfway up the mountain on the race’s first day, Kate realized what she had got herself into. “I think this was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life and there were times I didn’t want to go on,� Kate explained later. “I was even at the point of considering the option of staying on top of the mountain and starving or freezing to death instead of taking another step. “At those times I thought to myself, JT JU SFBMMZ XPSUI BMM UIJT IBSE XPSL GPS UIF HPTQFM UP CF CSPVHIU UP UIPTF QFPQMF HSPVQT w she recalled. “When I felt exhausted, I prayed each step I took, ‘God, please give me strength to take another one.’ When I finished the race, I knew it was worth it . . . for more people to have the opportunity to know and worship Christ, and I learned to look to the

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Lord for strength and praise Him in good and difficult times.� Kate’s team finished nearly last in the main timed events. But it placed first in the linguistics challenge at the Vietnamese village, winning a $2,000 prize to attend classes at the Canada Institute of Linguistics (CanIL), Wycliffe’s training partner, the following summer. Teammates agreed to give the scholarship money to Kate, who was intrigued by the linguistics challenge. “Kate has gone on to complete her More On The Web: 'PS EFUBJMT BCPVU linguistics studies,� says Friesen, “and $BO*- WJTJU XXX DBOJM DB has applied to serve with Wycliffe among a people group in a country where Russian, her mother tongue, is widely used for communication as a trade language.�

Much More Potential The list of Race to 2025 participants like Kate—who are aiming to study, or are in various stages of studies to serve with Wycliffe, or have actually applied to the organization—stands at 14 and counting. Friesen, who is quick to credit his patient and supportive wife Karen as the bedrock of their ministry together, sees even more potential for Race to 2025. NextGen envisions it expanding to possible events in B.C. and Atlantic Canada, engaging more colleges and students across the country. That will mean more administrative work, especially for Kara Staples, a young adult who Friesen has leaned on as the key co-ordinator of details at recent races. Whatever the scope of such events, racers can expect to see Friesen hiking and paddling alongside them, as the enthusiastic 48-year-old has in every race so far. “Quite frankly,� says Friesen, “I am challenging them to literally put their lives on the line for the sake of the gospel in some of the most isolated, remote places on the face of the earth. “The least I can do is run beside them every step of the way as they prepare to go.�

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like overseas?� I am convinced one of the best ways to find out is actually to go and see the lives that are being transformed by the gospel as it is being translated. My personal journey into involvement in the Bible translation movement included trips like these, and when I joined the NextGen team in 2007, I hoped that we would be able to facilitate young adult-focused overseas trips. King David exhorted us to “taste and see that the Lord is good�—there is something that is compelling, real and important about experience. We as the younger generation of the 21st century rely as heavily on experience as we do on information as a way of knowing and determining reality. So this becomes a critical factor in deciding to take students overseas to gain experience and to “taste and see that the Lord is good� in the context of global ministry. Why do you think it is an important program?

When a participant is faced not just with stories, but also with real-time, real-life involvement in new culture, and has the opportunity to witness the social, economic and spiritual transformation that is taking place in language communities, Bible translation is not just an idea or an ideal, but it becomes alive and personal. In this context, decisions about personal participation in the global Bible translation movement take on new life and often beg some kind of involvement. The focus of these trips is not to just “doâ€? and to assume that in a few weeks we can actually do anything incredibly significant for the field. But we can be honest about the fact that we can learn, understand, see, catch vision and consider what our response to the global Bible More On The Web: 'PS NPSF JOGPSNBUJPO translation movement is. The PO 8ZDMJòF $BOBEB 7JTJPO 5SJQT WJTJU XXX XZDMJòF DB OFYUHFO PS FNBJM focus post-trip then does not become what we accomplished KFTTJDB@EFNQTUFS!XZDMJòF DB while we were overseas or sharing with others what we did. But rather it becomes a focus on what our continuing involvement should be and sharing the vision we caught with others.

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In our ministry of mobilizing this student generation to take seriously the mandate of the Church to go into all the world, and share the love and healing of Christ, we find it to be an extraordinary opportunity to actually be a firsthand witness and participant in this enterprise! For example, you can know that there are 40 language communities in a country that need Scripture translation and language advocacy. But when you actually visit one of these communities, you can no longer just know the facts. The facts become personal and life transformative. You meet the people; eat rice and dhal with them. You sit under mango trees watching village women crowd together with their pencils and workbooks, learning how to read and write in their own language for the first time. You hike through rice fields and pineapple groves, and cross rivers on

How do you see the Vision trips fitting into the overall ministry of Wycliffe Canada and its NextGen Ministries?

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Our work in South Asia was primarily to assist and encourage the missionaries and local church in whatever way possible. We helped to bridge connections between Scripture impact teams and local indigenous churches, by sharing messages and testimonies in churches identified as potential key centres for indigenous language ministry.

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We participated in round-table discussions on the plight of indigenous people worldwide with an indigenous non-governmental organization that exists to promote socioeconomic development and preserve local culture and language. We participated in a round table discussion on missions and evangelism with Christian university students. We shared drama, music and helped facilitate programs in churches and ministries to Muslim youth and children who live in the slums. We also shared messages and testimonies with schools for indigenous children. Part of the reason is because the continent of Asia has the largest concentration of indigenous languages that are in need of Bible translation and language development. Research has shown that the participants in short-term trips tend to return long term to the location to which they first visit. If this is the case, then we need to be taking students to places where we really need long-term workers. Also, our colleagues in some countries in Asia have been pioneering new strategies, focusing on the holistic impact of Scripture translation and language development. The focus there is not just on the translation and the production of Scripture. Rather, success can be measured better when movements are started and indigenous people are using Scripture and garnering support for global missions among their community. I think it is helpful to expose young adults, as the incoming generation of workers, to new and innovative strategies that are being espoused by Wycliffe worldwide.

Why have you chosen to go to South Asia specifically for these trips?

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What part of the trip Participants find interacting with and heardo the participants ing the testimonies of indigenous believers is most impressive! For example, in August enjoy most?

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Participants come from all over Canada and even some from the U.S.A. They are university students, recent grads investigating future opportunities, working professionals, professionals who are investigating the leading of God in their lives, pastors and high school students! They come from a background in Bible colleges, Christian universities, seminaries, and secular universities, too.

Who goes on these Vision Trips?

What impresses I am always impressed by their openness to hear you about the from God, and their deep spirituality. They are participants? so willing to investigate the deep spots of their

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“Having the Book is only the beginning,� says Bernard, the project leader. “People need to read it, study it, hear it and understand it for their lives and communities to be changed by the power of the gospel of God.� Having worked together to make the project successful, people of all religious backgrounds are interested in promoting the Joola-Kaasa language and culture. When one church leader expressed amazement at the peaceful co-operation he had seen, the project leader replied, “This was God’s doing. Nothing is impossible to the Lord Almighty.� Hundreds of people who have learned to read through the literacy program are now able to read the Joola-Kaasa New Testament for themselves.

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people, three dedicated local translators moved to the capital city to live and work. They also travelled through areas that were dangerous, because of political instability, to check translated portions with pastors in the homeland where the Rose language is spoken. Rose speakers gathered in April 2009 for a dedication ceremony that included a selection of songs and readings by local youths. Numbering 2.5 million, Rose speakers can now own and read a copy of the New Testament in their heart language. Twenty literacy classes are running well and the team is preparing supplementary Bible study materials. People in the Rose community support language work and literacy being done by the team, as these activities serve as a bridge to the wider nation. The Sapar* New Testament was dedicated in December 2008. The books are now in the hands More On The Web: 'PS NPSF JOGPSNBUJPO of the people, who number BCPVU (MPCBM 1BSUOFS-JOL BOE JUT QSPKFDUT 11,000. WJTJU XXX HMPCBMQBSUOFSMJOL DB One translation team member described the delivery of the New Testaments by a van to their office gate: “The entire staff came out to carry all the Bibles into the office. Everyone was so excited and happy, and couldn’t wait to open the boxes. Very soon all the wrapping was being ripped off and New Testaments were appearing everywhere! Then all of us gathered together and gave thanks to our Lord and offered this New Testament to Him.� In the midst of the joy, there was sadness, as well, as they remembered the main translator. He was killed in an accident a few months earlier, just after completing the last of his portion of translation work on the New Testament. Getting the books to the dedication location in December posed a challenge because summer floods had washed out part of a highway. God answered prayer when a partner organization offered to hand-carry the books. A team that included 12 porters carried 1,000 copies of the New Testament and 700 copies of a newly printed hymnbook, an uphill trek that took several days. “The hunger for the New Testament was very great,� says a project member, “and the first 400 Sapar New Testaments sold within five minutes. Not long after, another 500 were distributed. People were very eager to get a copy and promised to use it in their churches.�

There is already a need for reprinting the New Testament, as all the original copies have been distributed.

A First for TAP Another New Testament dedication of special interest was in the Kinaray-a language, held September 2009 in the Philippines. Speakers of the language number 378,000. This is the first New Testament completed by the Translators Association of the Philippines (TAP). The organization was started in 1983, with the encouragement of SIL International, Wycliffe’s key partner organization, as a way to actively involve Filipinos in translation work. The governor of Antique province, one of the speakers at the dedication, purchased 300 copies to give to every government employee who speaks Kinaray-a and also to Kinaray-a people in prison. *Pseudonym used due to sensitivity

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