Invite Wycliffe to:

• Be part of or lead your church service, including any elements you would like.
• Your school or youth group.
• Your small group, a gathering, conference, or mission expo.

• Testimonies and stories of transformation across southern Africa.
• Meet the communities who are translating God's Word into their own language. 
• Explore the world of Bible Translation and the transformation it brings.

• Join us as we Run for the Bibleless.
• Take part in a race or event and represent Wycliffe, e.g. 947 Ride Joburg.
• Hold a fundraising challenge or event.
• Hold an awareness event.
• Invite Wycliffe to join your event or to support you.

• As a church, partner with a language group to practically love and serve the church and community as God leads you: interceed on their behalf, get in touch, encourage the team, send gifts, host, visit, and much more.

• You will receive regular updates, stories and prayer needs.

• A variety of Scripture based workshops available to you and your church or life group.
  • Bible Storytelling
  • Bringing the Bible to Life
  • Kairos Course
  • Mission & Cultural Training
  • Singing the Psalms
  • Trauma Healing Retreat

• A foundational course on world Christian mission.
• Contact us to talk about hosting or joining a course.

• Ethnoarts workshops, e.g. Singing the Psalms.
• Identifying local needs as well as art forms within your community to meet felt needs, e.g. music, visual art, dramatic reading, and oral performance.
• Creation of SE through art forms for use in worship, teaching, discipleship, and evangelism.

Connections:

• Creation of films, videos and clips to depict audio scriptures.
• Creation of resources to support the films.

Connections:

• Training in internalisation
• Using Bible Stories in social settings.
• Training to host an oral Bible study or listening group using translated Bible passages.

Connections:

• Engage with the Bible through trauma. Host a trauma healing retreat at your church or life group through the Trauma Healing Network.
• Resources and information about trauma.
• Resources for disaster relief.

Connections:

• Connect with local Christian radio stations.
• Share content to be played on the radio, like audio scripture, biblical drama, or locally created worship.
• Do interviews on the radio to increase community involvement and ownership.

Connections:

• Training for translation teams and SE facilitators to develop local SE resources.
• Scripture Engagement Workshops within language communities.
• Identifying local needs as well as skills and groups within the community.
• Creating studies and devotionals for use by different groups within the community.

Connections:

• Research about the language community to determine readiness to host a translation project.
• Identification of a church or para-church organisation serving and located within the recipient community, who can play the role of host and impact partner.

• Management of partner responsibilities.
• Fulfilment of the managing and resource partner role (mobilizing resources and supporting local venture partners).

• Connecting all partners within a translation project.
• Liaising with the local coordinator or point-person.
• Mediation between partners or stakeholders who experience conflict.
• Partnership development and team building skills.
• Forms and systems to enable reporting between partners.

• Provision of training workshops and materials, or connections to people and organisations who can provide them.
• Online guidance, training and knowledge.
• Sponsored internships.

Connections:

• Ethnoarts training and resources for use within Bible Translation, e.g. music and poetry.
• Finding functional equivalent art forms within the culture to use in Oral Bible Translation.

Connections:

• Training and management of local SE facilitators as they integrate the translations into every area of life and faith.
• Support for SE facilitators as they address cultural challenges and areas of need. 
• Transcription of Oral translations.
• Literacy development.
• Linguistics work, including orthography development.

Connections:

• Tracking budgets and spending across multiple currencies in different countries, using international conversion rates.

• Local monthly field budgets in local currencies.
• 1-year expense budgets.
• 5-year funder budgets in multiple currencies.

Topics:

• Budgeting software and processes.
• Local field budgets – how to budget for a translation project.
• Support for those using budgets.
• Monthly reporting of expenses.
• How to report back and use field journals / financial records.

(Training for approx. 3 people over 3 days. Computer literacy is helpful)

• Advice and training for other translation organisations as they develop systems for working financially with translation teams across borders.

• Skills development on Audacity and other related audio software.

• Skills and IT development for loading recorded translations, or similar, onto audio devices.

Connections:

• Help with the setup of new and old laptops for translation teams and WSA team members.

• Troubleshooting problems with IT software or hardware.
• Upgrading software.
• Replacing parts.

• Sourcing laptops for the needs of translation teams.
• Sourcing parts or software for the needs of translation teams. 

Topics:

• Bible Translation software (e.g. Paratext).
• Keeping your system safe.
• Online storage.

• Help with Paratext questions or problems.

Connections:

• Building skills in the original Biblical languages.
• Applicable for beginners as well as consultants and exegetes.

Connections:

• Skills development for agriculture.

Connections:

• Standing together in prayer.
• Intercession for language groups doing Bible Translation.
• Praying for the Bible Translation Movement.
• Adopt a Language.

Connections:

Support for missionaries - coming alongside you to see how we can help: practical, spiritual, emotional.

• Guidance and mentoring.
• Prayer and fellowship.
• Basic training and counselling services.
• Logistical support.
• Sourcing and sending needed items.
• And more...

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