Our Story  

We are serving in Papua New Guinea with Wycliffe Bible Translators.   Wycliffe's mission is to assist the church in making disciples of all nations through Bible translation. Wycliffe missionaries have helped to complete 500 translations in nearly 1000 languages, making God's Word available to more than 35 million people.  There are still over 2700 language groups representing more than 300 million people that have no Scriptures in their languages. Wycliffe is committed to seeing a Scripture translation in progress for every language that needs it by 2025.  The translation process is very involved and may take many years as translators and literacy workers devote their lives to developing written languages for peoples with none and teach them to read and to value reading. 

            Michele and Jim are supporting the translators by freeing them to focus their time and energy on translation.  Jim is now serving as the Port Moresby Regional Center manager.  The Port Moresby Regional Center provides logistical support for missionaries and those who work with our organization when they arrive or depart from the country.  In addition to assisting with work permits, visas, police clearance certificates, and passport renewals, we will also be involved in running the small guest house which is available for short term visitors.    Michele serves in the PNG Projects office helping to track many international projects that provides financial support to the work of Bible Translation.   Beginning in June 2011, we will also share the public relations role, sharing about the work of Bible translation with the government, non-government organizations, and churches in PNG.  We are grateful that God is giving us the chance to be part of bringing His Word to the peoples of the world using the gifts and experiences His has given us.