Wycliffe Associates - International Volunteer Organizations
Current Project Updates

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.

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

Bunia Translation Center — God's Word really is their only hope. And Wycliffe Associates has a near-miraculous opportunity to help build a permanent Bible translation center in Bunia, DRC—a place of peace and security.

Cameroon Rain Forest International School — More than just a school for missionary kids, the Cameroon Rain Forest International School is a vital tool in the acceleration of Bible translation.

Cameroon Soloy Cessna 207 Airplane Project — Airplanes may actually be the single biggest factor in speeding Bible translation in places like Cameroon—providing essential transportation and supplies for translators and their families. You can help provide a Soloy Cessna 207, allowing the aviation program in Cameroon to decrease its dependence on costly imported fuel.

Institute of Languages and linguistics — In the city of Dehradun, in the foothills of the Himalayas, lies the New Theological College (NTC)—a school that's made a remarkable commitment. They've made valuable land on their campus available for a new translation training center that will revolutionize Bible translation in India!

Juba Translation Center — The violence and devastation of the civil war in Southern Sudan forced translation teams to flee for their lives. By 1988, the Juba Translation Center had to close down. But it has just recently reopened! Find out how you can help rebuild this deteriorated facility.

Malaria Prevention — Malaria is prevalent in the most remote areas of the world exactly where the Scriptures are still needed. See how you can help stop malaria in its tracks.

Manila Translation Center — The Manila Translation Center serves as one of the most productive Scripture translation operations on the planet.

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.

Peru Literacy and Linguistic Training Centers New Page 1 All around the world, in place after place, we find people longing for the truth, the life-changing power of God's Word—but they are unable to read. See how you can help promote literacy, enabling the Quechua of Peru to read their Bible.

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.

PNG National Staff Housing Project — Christian nationals in Papua New Guinea who serve as employees at the Ukarumpa Bible Translation Center are vital to the work there.

PNG National Training Center — The new PNG National Training Center will be the key to 300-plus language groups in PNG having God’s Word in a language they can understand.

PNG Water Supply Project — Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea—a large translation center with many homes, offices, and translation training facilities suddenly lost their main water supply. The water system had been sabotaged. And you can help prevent this from ever happening again.

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.

Solomon Islands Training Center — It is now clear that God began setting the stage all the way back to World War II for the people of the Solomon Islands to receive His Word. See what you can help make possible in these South Pacific islands.

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.