I recently watched the BBC series, Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (which I highly recommend). One particular story of the construction of the Bell Rock Lighthouse resonated with me and with Wycliffe's goal of getting the Bible into the languages of the world. Psalm 119:105 says "thy Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path" but many cultures, people groups and languages of the world are still walking around in the dark, their lives and eternities being wrecked by jaggered rocks hidden below the waves that could have been avoided if only they were seen.

Deaf people live in a visual world,” says signed-language linguist Steve Parkhurst. “For them, language isn’t linear. You've got your hands doing one thing, and your face doing something else, and you've got body movement—it’s a dynamic, exciting experience.”

... our Bible were just as important as our cell phone?

... we treated it like we couldn't live without it

... when we forgot it, we went back to get it

... we had lots of gadgets to keep us connected to it

... we always had it close by in case of emergency

By Ali Coombe
Our family leaves at first light to take advantage of the calmer seas of early morning. A 20-foot fiberglass boat with outboard engine, called a "canoe" by the local people, will take us 20 miles across the sea from Honiara to our village on Big Gela Island.

By Sue Montag
My husband Dick and I were Bible Translators with the Cashinahua in Peru from 1969 to 1981. Almost as soon as we got off the plane on our first trip there, Mario (the only believer in the group), told us he had been promised by our predecessors that we would help him to become a bilingual school teacher.

Located in a remote southeastern corner of the Solomon Islands (1500 miles northeast of Australia), the Reef Islands sustains a population of more than 5000. Wycliffe translation advisors John & Rosalie Rentz (from US/NZ) and their famly spent 8 years supervising the translation of the Scriptures into Äiwo, the native language. The translation of Mark's Gospel was completed in 2001 and the dedication ceremony was held in St. Michael's Church in Otelo Village.

Bible Society New Zealand, Scripture Union and Wycliffe Bible Translators New Zealand are bringing the Essential 100 Challenge^TM (E100) to your church in 2010.

The E100 Bible Reading Challenge consists of 100 carefully selected Bible readings, ranging from a few verses to a few chapters (50 Old Testament, 50 New Testament). Completing the E100 Challenge will help you better understand the big picture of the Bible story, and it is designed to help you build a life of daily conversation with God through Bible reading and prayer.