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** Indonesia Workshop ———————————————————— It’s a real blessing when you get to a workshop and things are as they were described, when the people you need to be there show up, and when you accomplish basically all that you hoped going in. Last month’s workshop was one of those. We didn’t have a lot of… Continue reading Indonesia Workshop

Family photos at the bottom! Thank you for your continued partnership with our Wycliffe ministry. Your prayers and support are what enable us to equip church-based translation teams with the resources they need to bring the Word of God to their communities. ** Accelerated Content Creation ———————————————————— Since January Benjamin has been working on a… Continue reading Accelerated Work

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! (We promise our children were happier than they look here…) ** What we did in 2025 ———————————————————— This year our unfoldingWord content team completed translation resources for nine books of the Old Testament: Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, Joel, Nahum, and Malachi. These resources… Continue reading Merry Christmas

This email looks a little different! That’s because I’m sharing unfoldingWord’s Christmas campaign (yeah, it’s a little early) so you can consider helping strengthen pastors and translators who are bringing God’s Word to unreached people groups. Many of them serve in remote or challenging places where access to Scripture and support can be limited —… Continue reading Global Church-Centric Bible Translation Forum

** Crossing to Jordan ———————————————————— Thank you for your prayers for my Jordan trip–it was quite successful. We met with a team that’s translating our translation helps into Arabic for use by groups who work in Arabic as their second language. Since this was our first time meeting in person, we started by sharing stories.… Continue reading A Fruitful Time

Benjamin is heading to Jordan to help the Bible Society of Jordan stream-line some processes next week. It’ll be a whirlwind trip, he’s traveling Sat-Sun, working Mon-Wed, and flying back Wed night. Pray that he’d be alert for the working hours, that relationships would be built, that he’d be able to see ways to help… Continue reading Jordan trip

** Can AI Translate the Bible? ———————————————————— Yes… and no. It’s no surprise that people are experimenting with AI in Bible translation. There’s a lot of discussion in the field about how, when, and whether it should be used at all. Personally (this is Benjamin writing), I think some of the experiments are pretty fascinating—like… Continue reading AI in Bible Translation