Investing for the future

As a colleague said this week during the introductory class of the ‘Multilingual Education’ module:

“As staff here in Gloucester we really like this course, partly because it’s a subject that we’re passionate about… but also because it comes at a time of year when the seasons are changing and summer feels just around the corner.”

She couldn’t have been more right. As we start the final taught class of this year's Masters programme here in Gloucester, it feels somehow fitting that the trees and flowers should be bursting into new life. In our small class of five students we have a wide range of backgrounds, work contexts, and expectations represented. What they all do have in common, however, is a hope that the seeds of time and effort that they are investing now will one day burst into flower, both in their lives and the lives of the communities they work with.

Although it is often a privilege to see students mature in their understanding around a topic, teaching can also sometimes feel like a major responsibility. The students we have with us are keen to learn and to find answers to their many questions. It can feel disappointing and inadequate to so frequently have to answer with: “well, it depends". Because, of course, the kinds of issues we are wrestling with are complex and vary so much depending on the context. They involve difficult issues such as how people actually learn to read/write multiple languages and what a multilingual curriculum should look like, and even more difficult issues like how people feel about the languages they use and what the government thinks education should actually be for!

Of course many of these issues, although we might be able to identify some of them, are well beyond our control. We can influence some things, but beyond that we must trust that bigger change is possible and will come about through hard work and prayer - at the right time. Indeed change is a funny thing, something that is often impossible to see in the moment but clearly identifiable when reflecting back on a period.

As we enter another big period of change as a family, looking ahead to becoming four, we give thanks for all the things we have learnt as a family of three. We give thanks for you and your support of us and the work we are involved in, and we look forward to seeing the new seeds in our and your lives burst into flower at the perfect time.

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Relationships and roots

Yes, I did say 7 students. One works in a sensitive context.

This week saw the end of the latest block of Wycliffe training. Since early September I have been teaching on the literacy and education Masters programme here in Gloucester and this year we have had 7 students to enjoy getting to know. Although I enjoy all of my teaching commitments for differing reasons, there is something quite special about this course. As this is one of the first courses students take on the Masters programme, most (although not all) of them are new to literacy and education, new to Wycliffe and new to overseas service. It is always a privilege therefore spending this formative time with these individuals and families, getting to know them, sharing my experience and knowledge with them, and encouraging them for the future.

They will all soon be heading off to different places around the world to put into practice what they have learnt (some returning to somewhere they've lived before but many going somewhere new). It is our hope and prayer that these people will be able to put into practice what they've learnt, both in terms of skills and character. I hope to stay in touch with them during this next phase of their life, supporting them as they need advice, and hopefully seeing them again in a couple of years time when they return to complete their Masters studies. Indeed, already my thoughts are beginning to turn to the new year and a new group of students. In January students will be returning to complete their studies, many of whom I will remember from a couple of years ago. Although I won't actually be teaching again until April it will be great to see them again around college, to hear their stories and to share life again.

Gloucester looking particularly pretty.

And so it goes on. Being involved in teaching of this type is certainly a real privilege, but also a challenge. New friendships start and end - or sometimes just pause - on a regular and frequent basis. It is hard sometimes to see people go, but at the same time I know these relationships have been good for a time and that these people are now going on to fulfil a real need elsewhere in the world. It is partly for this reason that we are so grateful for the roots we are putting down here in Gloucester. Although we've only been here 9 months we already feel more settled than we have done for a long while. The welcome we've received from our neighbours, at college, and at our church has made a completely new place feel completely like home. We have blogged many times in the past about the challenge of moving house and the time it takes to feel really settled somewhere. Whilst things are never going to be perfect, it is with much thankfulness that we can say that sometimes, just sometimes, things just work out.

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Love

Valuing people's language and culture means far more than just changes in lifestyle, education or future options. It impacts who they are, who they have made to be. Take a quick look at this video that explains very nicely some of the key reasons for doing what we do.

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What makes you who you are?

What makes me a Wisbey?
What makes me a man?
What makes me British?

What are the connecting features that help me identify with these ‘groupings’? Or, put slightly differently, what factors make up my identity? Our genes, yes, but that is only part of the picture. What else influences who we are?

It’s a tricky question. It’s not something we think about very often, but yet it’s a very important one. Often without realising it we find that who we are, what we think, what we value, how we choose to act, is shaped by and connected to the circumstances that surround us. Things that we can easily take for granted.

STOP for a minute and have a little think: What makes you who you are?

At one of our community of practice events last year we asked participants that very question: What makes you part of your ethnolinguistic group? These were some of the responses:

And so what? Why does this matter? Well, what would happen if those factors were suddenly no longer around? What if you couldn’t live in a certain place, eat a certain food, wear certain clothes, speak a certain language? Would you still feel connected to others who have similar features? Would you still be you?

These are the kinds of questions many marginalised communities around the world are having to face right now. Key elements that make up who they are are being challenged, looked down upon, outlawed and even destroyed. Their traditional ways of celebrating, their traditional foods, the language they speak, and often the very land they live on is changing and they must decide how to respond.

At its heart, this is what we are working to support. To help communities who have been looked down upon and devalued, to define their own identity and to be proud of it. To see who they are, who they were made to be, and to freely live in those realities. It’s a complicated issue, with many factors, but one that is central to many other areas of life.

Will you join with us and stand alongside these marginalised communities? We do not receive a salary for the work we do and our income is dependent on the goodwill of friends around the world. If you would like to support us either regularly or by making a one off gift, you can do so now by clicking here.

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Different perspective

A month or so ago I was back in Bangkok helping to facilitate our latest 'Language, Education and Development' community of practice. I have tried (on multiple occasions) on this blog to explain what this can/does look like, but the other day I came across a short post from an attendee of the latest event about their experiences. It's always nice to see things through others eyes, so take a minute to read what they had to say about it!

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Language, education and development and funding

Last month I spent a week in Thailand coordinating the latest LEAD (language, education and development) community of practice event, this time looking at how to identify and then work towards securing funding for LEAD activities. To find out a little more about the event take a look at this short news article put together by our team.

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Connections: Green Pastures

Two young children, members of a herder community in Tarialan, Mongolia, wander the slopes of one of the highest countries in the world. At least 40% of Mongolians live a nomadic lifestyle, regularly herding their animals to greener pastures. With the end of communism and religious oppression in 1991, the church has grown rapidly and when a New Testament translation into Halh (Mongol) was published in 2000 all ten thousand copies sold out on the first day. Many of Mongolia’s other 13 unique language communities have some scripture portions available to them, but need more. Please pray for the growing church in Mongolia.

Photo: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Words: Elyse Patten

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This is the latest in an (ad hoc) series of blogs from other sources across Wycliffe, 'showcasing' the huge range of impact our work helps to bring about. As we start a new year, we hope it reminds and encourages you of the connections, sometimes clear and sometimes very fuzzy, between what we are doing and the lives of real peoples all over the world. MW

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Connections: Community

The sun sets on a gorgeous summer day over the village of Margau, Romania. Christians in this village are grateful to have a Bible to read, since they know what it is like to live without it. During the Cold War many Romanians risked imprisonment to smuggle, hide and share Bibles. And they haven’t forgotten. The small churches in this town, and other towns nearby, are pooling their resources to achieve something great. Together they support a missionary family to live in Ethiopia and are helping bring the Bible to speakers of the Shek/Maj languages. An incredible testimony to what can be achieved by working together. Read the full story.

Photo: Søren Kjeldgaard
Words: Elyse Patten

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This is the latest in an (ad hoc) series of blogs from other sources across Wycliffe, 'showcasing' the huge range of impact our work helps to bring about. As we start a new year, we hope it reminds and encourages you of the connections, sometimes clear and sometimes very fuzzy, between what we are doing and the lives of real peoples all over the world. MW

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Connections: Mesmerised

Have you ever seen children sit so still? At a dark outdoor meeting with only the glow of the stage lights, this image was captured at a ridiculously slow shutter of 1/8 of a second. But these mesmerised kids didn’t budge an inch. Every year on May Day weekend hundreds of Christians who live throughout the top end of Australia come to the outback town of Katherine to fellowship together. Making camp in the shade, they study the word by day and share items of music and dance by night. Over this weekend in 2011 I met and interviewed many inspirational Aboriginal Christians. I listened to stories of men who’d given up alcohol, women committed to witnessing Christ in their community, and teenagers who read their Kriol Bible every day. I rejoiced to see God at work.
Click here to meet Marlene, a leader in her community at Ngukurr.

Photo & Words: Elyse Patten

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This is the latest in a short series of blogs from other sources across Wycliffe, 'showcasing' the huge range of impact our work helps to bring about. As we come towards the end of another year, we hope it reminds and encourages you of the connections, sometimes clear and sometimes very fuzzy, between what we are doing and the lives of real peoples all over the world. MW

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Connections: More Than Rice

Happy kids pose on a small rice farm in Uganda. While western media often focuses on this nation’s struggles, Ugandans are persevering, gentle and strong in faith. Over 82% of Ugandans call themselves Christian. Although many Ugandans have access to the Scriptures in the national language, that doesn’t enable the same level of understanding as a heart language. For example, after attending a basic Bible teaching seminar, Mr. Zaverio, 97, said, "I was not expecting to witness the Word of God being read in Bwisi while I was still alive. This week I have learned the true meaning of salvation, and I have accepted Jesus as my Saviour. I will die in the Lord. They used to tell us that a true Christian is the one who attends church all the time, gives gifts, does good works and prays every evening. But now through these teachings in my language of Bwisi, I am understanding that God forgives our sins through Christ!"

Photo: Andy Kristian Agaba
Words: Elyse Patten

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This is the latest in a short series of blogs from other sources across Wycliffe, 'showcasing' the huge range of impact our work helps to bring about. As we come towards the end of another year, we hope it reminds and encourages you of the connections, sometimes clear and sometimes very fuzzy, between what we are doing and the lives of real peoples all over the world. MW

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Connections: Meet Pastor Paul

Closely involved in the translation of the New Testament into his mother tongue, Wala, published in 2008, Pastor Paul references the whole Scripture text of the Bible in Pijin, the national language of the Solomon Islands. He keeps his fingers in the commandments of Exodus 20 while reading Jesus’ genealogy in Luke 3. While such detailed family histories may not excite English readers, for Malaitians it is an important connection between their culture and the Biblical culture. Pastor Paul says, “We strongly believe the word from our ancestors, our customs. We depend on that. Our culture is very important and we need to view it in the light of God’s word. The Bible helps us to understand who God is.” Pastor Paul considers that a recent disregard for family history has contributed to modern problems in the family. He shares from the Old and New Testaments with those gathered for an ethno-arts workshop on the island of Malaita and urges, “We must make the family strong. When the family is strong, then the community is strong. When the community is strong, then the church is strong. When the church is strong then the whole nation is strong.” 

Photo & Words: Elyse Patten

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This is the latest in a short series of blogs from other sources across Wycliffe, 'showcasing' the huge range of impact our work helps to bring about. As we come towards the end of another year, we hope it reminds and encourages you of the connections, sometimes clear and sometimes very fuzzy, between what we are doing and the lives of real peoples all over the world. MW

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Conversations and pages

In a job like mine, as with many others, it is often quite hard to see the results of your labour. What we are working to bring about are changed lives, both outwardly and inwardly. These kind of changes not only take time but we're also very rarely around to actually see it happen! However, sometimes we do get indicators of progress that show us we're moving in the right direction. Just like buses, after having waited for a while without seeing any, during my most recent trip to Thailand two encouraging things happened at once!

Firstly, we held another Language, Education and Development (LEAD) 'community of practice' event, with 60+ participants from 15 different country contexts attending. The group was very enthusiastic and keenly explored many of the challenges and successes of working with other organisations. As they interacted in small groups, they were able to share their own experiences and learn from others. It was exciting to see such a hive of activity and energy and to hear so many encouraging comments afterwards. It is our hope, of course, that as the participants return to their normal work contexts they will be able to put into practice all that they have learnt.

Secondly, the book that a colleague and I had been working on for the last 6 months was finalised and published! Based on experiences gathered during community of practice (CoP) events, the book sets out practical examples of how to work sensitively and sustainably with minority groups. We wrote Signposts to Identity-Based Community Development (IBCD) as a Guide, literally outlining resources (and giving real life stories as examples) and directing people to them. We really hope that community development practitioners all over the world can make use of the learning that has been generated through the CoP. If you would like to take a look and see the final result, click here to read an introduction and then download it and let us know what you think. We'd love to hear your thoughts!

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Connections: Somalia

A Somali man sits next to his herd of goats at Bakara Animal Market in Mogadishu, Somalia. In the district's animal market, thousands of goats are brought each morning, where they are sold for their meat. With the longest coastline on the African continent, Somalia occupies the eastern-most point of the Horn of Africa with a population of 10 million people who speak more than 10 different languages. Enjoying a warm semi-arid climate, Somalis are credited with domesticating the camel and archaeological research reveals that an ancient Somali civilisation once thrived with a unique writing system that is still undeciphered. Today the vast majority of Somalis are Sunni Muslims, and Islam is vitally important to the Somali sense of national identity. Christians are in the minority. There are 8 language communities in Somalia without any Scripture available to them. Watch a short film about a Christian Somali woman’s journey of faith. Please pray for the work of the church in Somalia. Find prayer requests from Africa here.

Photo: UN Photo/Tobin Jones | Words: Elyse Patten

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This is the latest in a short series of blogs from other sources across Wycliffe, 'showcasing' the huge range of impact our work helps to bring about. As we come towards the end of another year, we hope it reminds and encourages you of the connections, sometimes clear and sometimes very fuzzy, between what we are doing and the lives of real peoples all over the world. MW

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Connections: Signs

This last week I (Matt) was in Germany at the Wycliffe Germany offices and conference centre for a meeting of the 'Europe Area Funding Network' - basically a coming together of a group of Wycliffe and SIL people concerned with raising funds for the work around the world. As ever it was great to get the opportunity to visit somewhere new, meet some (very lovely) new people, share about the work in Asia, and hear about the joys, challenges and opportunities others are facing around funding and fund raising. As you may well imagine, it is not a particularly easy time to be trying to raise funds in Europe!

One of the excellent 'by-products' of meetings like this is the chance to have my mind broadened once more to the huge range of impact our organisations are involved in bringing about. It reminds me of the connections, sometimes clear and sometimes very fuzzy, between what I am doing and real peoples lives around the world. As we come towards the end of another year, it feels like a perfect opportunity to pause and reflect on the amazing difference God's word can make in peoples lives. I hope you feel as inspired as I do...

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 Signs

In a suburb of Tokyo, hidden away in a tiny office full of computer and video screens, a small team of Japanese Deaf are working on the first ever visual Japanese Sign Language Bible. A young Deaf woman named Uiko Yano wasn’t a Christian when she joined the team but they wanted her because she is an, “absolutely phenomenal translator.” While working on a draft translation of Matthew’s Gospel she got to unpack the Christian terminology she had never understood before and says, “…I heard God calling me.” Now Uiko is a believer who is passionate about giving Japanese Deaf the opportunity to ‘hear’ from God and says, “It is so important for Deaf people to have the Bible in their own language.” Read Uiko’s story. Please pray for the Japanese Sign Language Bible team.

Photo: Marc Ewell
Words: Elyse Patten

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Complicated

I often find it difficult to explain to people what I do, what my ‘job’ is, or even how I spend my time! A lot of the time that is because I just don’t know HOW to describe it in a way that will actually mean something to people.

This might be because they’ve never been to the places I’m working in or focusing on, or never met the people I’m working with. It might be because the topics I’m focusing on (Multilingual Education… Identity Based Development…) or the questions I’m wrestling with (How do people really feel part of a ‘community of practice’ and learn from each other?) are unfamiliar to them – after all they haven’t spent months studying them or hours discussing them with colleagues. You see, every concept needs a structure within which they can be understood. Without that structure or ‘context’, they are just empty words with no real meaning.

Other times, however, the sheer variety of what I find myself doing makes it difficult to communicate! If you like, the WHAT gets in the way as well as the HOW! Take this week, for example. I have been:

-communicating and arranging with colleagues about attending a reading conference and advocacy training in Kenya in August;

-engaging with MLE teaching sessions on topics such as ‘primer production in situations where there are multiple languages’ (causing me to reflect back on and share our experiences of working in a nine language cluster project in Tanzania);

-working with colleagues on preparing a funding proposal for work with two communities in Bangladesh (communities where over 80% of households live on less than $2 a day);

-reviewing abstracts for an international conference on language and education in Bangkok in the Autumn;

-continuing to plan towards the next Asia-wide learning event (community of practice event) to be held later this year;

-marking students papers on the theoretical basis of MLE in their given work contexts (which included Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, and Indonesia).

Just one document I've read this week...

How do I explain that to people?! Of course not all my weeks are like this, in fact some weeks I spend the whole time writing one conference paper or working on a funding proposal. However, as my work regularly involves diverse activities and contexts it is pretty difficult to describe them in a way that people can follow and understand. Granted most jobs have a range of tasks which can be quite complex to explain, but I guess the difference is that often in those situations even the job title itself helps to bring clarity, since people tend to understand the context or have some familiarity with the subject area (‘Oh yeah, my brothers uncle used to be a…’, for example!). That’s not often the response I get when I say I work on issues around language, education and development in Asia!

Ultimately, I guess what it really boils down to each week is that I am trying to make the best use of the skills and training I have been lucky enough to receive to come alongside and assist people around the world. Learning together, sharing knowledge (both ways!) and encouraging each other onwards towards the future.

Want to know more? Drop us an email – I’ll try and explain as best I can…!

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New year, new opportunities

Having just posted a new blog I noticed this one (below) written at the beginning of the year. We must have saved it to post later and just forgot! Whilst it's a little out of date now, for a sense of completeness (for our own sake if no one else's!) then we'd thought we'd post it anyway.

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Funnily enough, 2012 felt as though it ended in almost as much of a blur as 2011, only this time for very different reasons! While December 2011 was full of getting used to having a new baby, November/December 2012 was full of travel (Matt with work to Thailand and Cambodia, and Liz and Levi to Devon), catching up with life on all our returns, and ‘big’ birthdays (30th and 1st!).

Now we are into 2013 we are excitedly looking towards the year ahead. We start by moving house (worryingly, something that is becoming an annual occurrence), although thankfully just within Thame this time. Liz is looking forward to being slightly closer to town, Matt is looking forward to having his own proper office (or spare room!) and Levi will enjoy a bit more space to spread his toys around!

Matt is already straight back into busyness at work helping prepare for another event at the beginning of March. This will require him to return to Thailand at the end of February for 10 days, returning just in time to teach on another course at the Wycliffe Centre at the end of March. It is good that he is currently enjoying the new challenges his role presents!

Liz has also started an NHS course on Chronic Fatigue management. She is looking forward to learning more strategies to help her manage her condition and getting to know some others in a similar situation.

Thank you for your continued support of us throughout 2012. To keep in touch with us throughout 2013, including finding out more about how you can support our work directly, please sign up for our quarterly updates.

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Reminders

Let’s face it, my day-to-day work really isn’t that exciting. Thankfully I’m someone who often thinks about the ‘big picture’ and so I can be encouraged to keep going because of the part my work plays in the bigger picture. That said, every so often even I need a direct reminder of why I’m doing what I’m doing – if you like, the chance to ‘complete’ a task and to see a result! My trips to Asia, such as my time in Thailand in early March, serve as just such reminder.

My latest trip was split into two parts. It started with a visit to a government school near to the border with Myanmar. The school serves a minority language community that, despite having moved from Myanmar to Thailand many years ago, still struggles to be recognised as Thai. The community exist largely separate from the surrounding people groups and because of this they mainly use their own language (their ‘mother tongue’) at home and for daily activities. Because of this the children’s ability in Thai is very limited and so the school is trying to help the children by allowing lessons in pre-primary and the first couple of years of primary school to be delivered in their mother tongue instead of just Thai. It was great to see the children enjoying learning, but the trip also helped me to understand better some of the challenges such initiatives can face. Minority communities, and the institutions that exist to serve them (such as this school), face very real challenges in terms of resources and opportunities. That is why my team, LEAD Asia, are trying to support this kind of work (and ultimately why I do what I do!).

The second part of my trip was based in Bangkok where we (the LEAD team) facilitated an experience-sharing event around the topic of ‘Identity Based Community Development’ (for more about what this means see here [http://wisbeys.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/exploring-identity-and-development.html]). It was such a privilege to be in a room with 60 people from all over Asia sharing about how they are successfully addressing language and culture in their education and development work. Whilst we did introduce a few new tools/techniques, the majority of the time was spent facilitating the sharing of knowledge between participants themselves. In fact, one of the most exciting things for me to see was actually AFTER the event had formally finished! One morning, on the way to breakfast, I walked past two colleagues from different countries sitting at the end of the corridor excitedly explaining their work to each other! Our events are attended by people who are part of what we call our ‘Community of Practice’, if you like ‘a group of people who do the same stuff’, and they represent all kinds of different organisations and types of projects. Seeing these participants discussing in such energised ways encourages me that there really is a ‘community’ after all.

Now I am back in the UK the real work begins! As part of the funding we are required to write a report, a guide, explaining the discussions from the event. Although it is going to be challenging to summarise such rich and diverse discussions, I am looking forward to sharing people’s experiences, challenges and encouragements with a wider audience. We will try and do justice to the excited conversations that took place!

Before then, however, I am in the middle of teaching on the ‘Language Project Planning and Implementation’ course, helping 23 students think about how they can better plan, monitor and implement their work (literacy, development, translation etc.) so that it brings about change in peoples lives. This is particularly exciting as, once again, the participants come from all over the world and bring a wealth of knowledge and experience. This not only enriches their own learning but also challenges me to think about how these tools can be used in different kinds of situations. These connections, both with the students themselves and the communities with which they are working, again help to remind me why I do what I do. Thank you for continuing to be a part of that with us.

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Exploring Identity and Development

Next week I will be travelling to Bangkok in Thailand to help facilitate a learning community around the topic of ‘Identity Based Community Development’.

Over 60 representatives from all across Asia, representing the vast majority of countries on the map above, will be in attendance, sharing their experiences of development work. In particular they will be focusing on the ways in which they are trying to keep their identity (who they are as individuals and as a community) central whilst still engaging with development opportunities in appropriate ways.

‘How do you welcome formalised schooling when the curriculum ignores (or in some cases contradicts) your cultural values?’
‘How can you best adapt innovative farming practices to complement your traditional methods without harming the environment?’

These are some of the kinds of questions minority communities across Asia are facing. As such, the ‘Toyota Foundation’ is funding the event to encourage the sharing of experience between Asian countries. I think it is a great idea; there is lots of good experience in the areas of community development, relationship building and education that can be shared between contexts and countries, so long as it can be applied appropriately in each context. And that is what we want to explore in this event!

In case you need a reminder of WHY that is important, here is a short video (that we’ve highlighted before!) that explains the importance of culturally relevant information for health issues.

Please remember us all as we meet together. Lots of people will be travelling big distances to attend the event (most of them involving more than two modes of transport!) and will be away from their families/support structures for some time. It is my hope that this can be a really positive experience for all involved and that people can return to their homes feeling encouraged in their work and better equipped to address the needs of their communities.

As ever I will try (emphasis on TRY) to update our twitter account 'regularly' while away. Check for updates on this page or directly here.

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‘development through literacy’ (5 of 5)

People learn to read and write best in the language they know the best. Despite this fact (and it is a fact, there is LOTS of evidence to back it up… trust us!), it is estimated that over 200 million children still attend schools where the language used is not their first language! And some people wonder why learning in some parts of the world is so poor still!?

As people are able to read and write in their first language, their ‘mother tongue’, they are empowered to make informed decisions for themselves. At the same time, as people are given the opportunity to use their language and culture in their learning (without fear of discrimination or exclusion), they are able to develop a strong and healthy individual and group identity, facilitating real and peaceful interactions with people from different backgrounds and building healthy societies.

Learning to read and write in your first language also makes you better placed to transfer this skill into a national or international language, providing opportunities outside of your immediate circumstances. Finally, very strong literacy skills are essential for people to read God's word – the Bible – for themselves (often for the very first time). This level of reading can only be developed through people’s first languages.

We are excited because literacy empowers people and gives them new opportunities, which can radically change their lives for the better: physically, emotionally and spiritually. Not only will people be able to read the Bible, but they can also access books and development opportunities that may explain how to grow crops better when faced with changing weather patterns, how best to avoid deadly diseases, and how to keep your family healthy (UNESCO have put together a really nice presentation about the importance of education, it's at the bottom of this post). Literacy also allows people to access other rights and knowledge that we take for granted, stopping people from being overlooked or exploited.

We want you to partner with us to help to continue to see people fulfilling their God given potential, no matter where they are born or what language they speak! To find out how you can do that, please click here (it will only take a few minutes and will really encourage us in our work).

This post ends our short five-part series on who we are, what we do, and why we do it. We hope it has been helpful in understanding the part we play in Wycliffe’s work; however, in reality, it has only just scratched the surface! If you have any questions you’d like us to answer, either privately or via a future blog post, please email us and ask. We’ll do our best to answer them!

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