welcome!

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WELCOME!

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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 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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There are two groups of people missing! Guess who?

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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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Need translation*1,919

In progress2,167

Some scripture 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 Scriptures

SOURCED FROM WWW.WYCLIFFE.NET – OCTOBER 2013

Status of Bible translation worldwide

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Supporting the Bible translation movement

• Learn more information by checking out– Wycliffe Australia’s website wycliffe.org.au– Publications such as Wycliffe Today

wycliffe.org.au/resources/wycliffe-today/

• Spread the word– Like us on Facebook fb/wycliffeaustralia– 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

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Supporting the Bible translation movement

• Support a Wycliffe member or project financially – Go to wycliffe.org.au/donate/ – Check out 60 Projects for 60 years at

wycliffe.org.au/60th-anniversary/

• Volunteer in Australia or overseas– Email info_australia@wycliffe.org for information

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