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Good News in Anyone’s Language
1954 to 2014: 737 Aussies have been involved
The Oates Family 1954
The Miles-Fanning Family 2014
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1954 to 2014: Serving directly in 126 language projects
•86 New Testaments•3 Complete Bibles•56 Scripture portions•Audio Productions in 22 languages•Video productions in 11 languages
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1954 to 2014: Other services
•Dictionaries in 34 languages•40 language experts (consultants)•Typesetting (preparing Bibles for print) in 47 languages
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Need
translation*
1,919
In progress
2,167
Some
scripture
1010
1010
New Testament 1,294
Complete Bible
513
6,918 living languages worldwide 2,817 languages with all or some Scripture*180 million people without ScripturesSourced from www.wycliffe.net – October 2013
Status of Bible translation worldwide
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Call to action (2013 statistics)
Number of languages with likely need of Bible translation with no active program in place
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Supporting the Bible translation movement
• Learn more information by checking out– Wycliffe Australia’s website www.wycliffe.org.au– Publications such as Wycliffe Today
http://wycliffe.org.au/resources/wycliffe-today/ • Spread the word
– Like us on Facebook (search for Wycliffe Bible Translators Australia)
– Host a Wycliffe 60th birthday party
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Supporting the Bible translation movement
• Pray– Sign up for Prayer Words by emailing
prayer-notes_australia@wycliffe.org – Host a prayer meeting during Wycliffe Australia’s 60
days of prayer: 13 September to 11 November 2014• Support a Wycliffe member or project financially
– Go to http://wycliffe.org.au/donate/ – Check out 60 Projects for 60 years at
http://wycliffe.org.au/60th-anniversary/ • Volunteer in Australia or overseas
– Contact info_australia@wycliffe.org for info
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