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Our main focus:
Wycliffe Bible Translators Members-in-Training for Bible Translation at NEGST (Kenya)
Here's a bit of information about us, about the work we're involved in and how you can be a part of it in various ways.
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Having been married in 2005 and accepted as Wycliffe Members in Training in 2006, our medium-long term aim is to participate in the immense and life-changing task of translating the Bible (probably) in West Africa. But first we need some training, ideally in an African context! So we're now studying the 2 year MA in Translation Studies (from August 2007) at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (NEGST). Before leaving, Julie took the Cornhill Training Course (Scotland) while David worked for our home church in Glasgow and passed on technical responsibilities there to others. We can't really do this on our own. Wycliffe doesn't pay salaries and besides money we'll need a good support network to keep us going strong. We're very grateful to several friends and relatives who, together with our home church have generously given money and support in many ways to enable us to study. More about:
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Other projects we're involved in:
Over the last 2 years we've been involved with a church (AICT Makongoro) in Mwanza, north Tanzania (by Lake Victoria). There are several projects and people there that we've got to know that we'd love to be able to support financially but can't do on our own. Perhaps one of these you might be interested in:
- Translating good Christian books into Swahili and Supporting Theological Students in the process
- So much good (and bad!) Christian literature exists in English. It would be good to see some of the best material translated into Swahili for pastors and others who don't know English very well, so that they can still learn to read the Bible well and explain God's word not just powerfully, and interestingly but faithfully to others.
- We have been encouraging friends and fellow students who seem to be able to translate well, to start working on some books. Some are looking for paid work to pay for their schooling and this project could meet several needs at once. This could have a very big impact on East Africa.
- (We have already talked with some publishers to obtain permission for particular books we are interested in.)
- Contact us to find out more and find out how you could help...
- Tanzanian Theological College Student
- A very able and promising young man, married 4 August 2007, studying at theological college. Without any income since he is studying, he needs to be able to pay his fees and support his new family. With some gifts from friends we have been able to help him through his first term of second year, but now he is struggling.
- Contact us to find out more and find out how you could help...
- Street Kids
- Several in the church are involved with street children (mostly boys) who have to fend for themselves for a variety of reasons in the growing and increasingly insecure city, living amid drug abuse and violence and lacking the loving family structure children need. They really could do with help to put together some kind of support programme for these vulnerable children, and possibly a safe house where they can be rehabilitated and prepared for rejoining society proper.
- Contact us to find out more and find out how you could help...
- New Church needs roof... and a pastor
- After a week of evangelism which we were involved in during August 2005, a new church was planted in a fishing village with no previous gospel witness: Igalagala. Members of a small church about 2 hours' walk away have helped oversee the church which meets under a tree and has no pastor. They have been working hard to secure a piece of land and build a simple meeting house to give some cohesion to their meetings, and a visible presence in the community, but it is taking a long time. Some small help towards the cost of the roof or other aspects would be a great help. We visited again in July 2006 and could see that some kind of building and perhaps even more importantly a full-time pastor could be very valuable.
- Our friend Kulola who is great with teaching school children and helping with this church has to work as a taxi driver the other side of Tanzania to support himself, so isn't able to do what he's so good at. Perhaps some of us could help support him.
- Contact us to find out more and find out how you could help...
In more detail
Prayer
- Read past prayer letters
- Watch some of our videos and look at photos
- Get an idea of where we are and what we're doing.
- Subscribe to our monthly missive!
Costs: Living & Study
While we're studying and then in our translation work later we will depend on the financial support
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- Give towards our expenses (through the Epaphras Trust)
- If you're a St George's-Tron church member, the best way you can support us, is to give a regular amount to the Missionary Fund, through the Epaphras Trust.
- Otherwise, if you're from outside the Tron family, please contact us and find out how you can give directly to support us, through the Epaphras Trust. This way your gifts will reach us fairly quickly and easily, and the Epaphras Trust can reclaim tax you have paid through Gift Aid.
- Support our Church's wider mission work (through the Epaphras Trust)
Practical
- Help us out in the UK
- more here soon...
Friendship / Encouragement
- Keep in touch & check up on us: email, phone, SMS or write
Communication
- Keep us up to date with what's going on
- Pass on our news
Spiritual Food
- Sermon CDs? Good books? Helpful articles? Reflections of your own?
