Current Project Updates

Click on any one of the projects below to see how your gifts are supporting the life-changing work of Bible translation.

Airstrip Repair Project — Airstrips are critical to the work of Bible translation in Papua New Guinea.

Alotau Translation Training Center — The reality is that the need for qualified translators is overwhelming . . . especially in a place like Papua New Guinea! Together we can establish a Bible translation training center and provide technology resources to equip national translators in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.

Bamenda Translation Training Center — Representatives from many different language groups are pleading for help to develop translations of the Scriptures in their own languages.

Bible Translation Technologies — National Bible translators in remote regions of the world are facing incredible dangers. But they are not alone! Wycliffe Associates is dedicated to training and equipping national translators using new Bible Translation Technologies.

Indonesia Pilatus PC-6 Airplane #2 — Hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children living in spiritual darkness in the mountain villages and jungles of Papua, Indonesia don’t have a single word of Scripture in their heart languages. Inaccessibility puts Bible translation efforts at risk. A Pilatus PC-6 airplane can dramatically accelerate Bible translation.

Madagascar Translation Project — More than 22 million people live in the island nation of Madagascar. Millions are living in utter spiritual darkness! Ten different Bible translation efforts have begun in this spiritually barren region of the world and another six are waiting to launch.

Mbeya Cluster Translation Project — The Mbeya Cluster translation project in Tanzania is already underway. See how you can help remove one of the obstacles to making progress in translating Scripture into these 10 languages.

New Ireland Translation Institute — On a tiny exotic island just off the coast of Papua New Guinea, Bible translators Ed and Debi Condra, along with their Bible translation team, completed the New Testament for the Patpatar people. But there is more. See how the Patpatar people are making a difference in their community.

Nigeria Translation Office Expansion Project — The Nigeria team of national Bible translators has increased eightfold over the last three years! Now we—Wycliffe Associates—must provide the tools and facilities for them to work. See how you can help renovate the existing facility to allow Bible translators to move forward with their God-given task.

Operation Clean Water — Millions of people around the world don't have clean water to drink. See how you can help give them the desperately needed gift of clean water—and along the way, give them the life-giving gift of God's Word in their own language.

Papua New Guinea KODIAK Aircraft — Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a land of jungles, high mountains, and many small islands. About 80 percent of Bible translators in PNG must travel to and from their remote village translation locations by airplane. Find out how you can help provide the perfect airplane—the KODIAK—to meet these Bible translators’ travel needs.

PNG Air Services Project — There are so many Bible translation projects in PNG that it takes a lot of infrastructure and support services to keep them going. About 1,000 adult volunteers, translators, support personnel, and children live in PNG at any given moment. See how you can help improve their air services—the "safety net" for these families.

Scriptures for New Frontiers — When we think of what is happening in some countries—Christians being tortured and murdered, believers being persecuted and driven from their homes—we know that only God's Word can change their world.

Sepik Translation Initiative — Deep in the jungles along the Sepik River, there is a constant struggle between the light and spiritual darkness . . . it’s a reality that people in this area are intimately familiar with. Today you can help bring them God’s Word—their only hope.

Southeast Asia Hangar Complex — Aviation has enabled incredible progress in recent Bible translation efforts in a certain Southeast Asia country. Now they urgently need a new aircraft facility. Learn how you can help us keep the airplanes flying.

West Timor Translation Center — Incredibly, 63 translators are working with limited workspace, hampered by the lack of basic necessities and equipment in a "shell" of a building that Wycliffe Associates helped provide. We can help turn this building into a fully functioning translation center.