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What do Wycliffe personnel do when they face a financial crisis or emergency while overseas? To care for its staff, Wycliffe Canada has a special fund set up to provide…
Africa
Marko and Pauline, Wycliffe Canada members since 1998, trained at the Canada Institute of Linguistics in Langley, B.C., where Marko graduated with a Master’s in Linguistics and Exegesis in 2000. Passionate about the vision that everyone should have access to God’s Word in their own language, the Hakkolas work in Mali, West Africa, where Marko and…
Cam is from Ryley, Alberta, and Valerie is from Richland, Washington. Cam joined Wycliffe in 1995 and Valerie in 2000. They have three children, Noah, Elly, and Jojo. Cam and Valerie are part of a large team assigned to a cluster of 10 related languages in Cameroon, called the Ndop Cluster. The team’s goal is…
Southeast Asia
Derek and Kristie’s desire to serve the Lord was nurtured from childhood, having been blessed with Christian parents. Derek grew up in Temiskaming Shores and Timmins, Ont., while Kristie grew up near Brantford, Ont. On a mission trip to Ukraine in 1998, Derek decided that Bible translation was how he wanted to serve God. Derek and Kristie met in 1995 at a…
Jeff serves Wycliffe personnel as a coach, helping guide people through difficult decisions, transitions and helping people who are low on support. Lenice is working remotely with the Papuan Malay translation team in Indonesia, as a translation co-ordinator. Jeff and Lenice served in Indonesia from 2004-2019, where Jeff served as an aircraft mechanic. Papuan Malay…
Anna grew up in Midway, B.C. (a small village in the southern interior). She joined Wycliffe in February of 2023 and currently, she is living in Castlegar, B.C., working remotely on The Bible Translator’s Assistant (TBTA) software program as a linguistic analyst. Anna works with other TBTA team members around the world, to build an…
Furthering Bible translation through training the next generation of language workers at CanIL, Larry has been with Wycliffe Bible Translators for more than 30 years. Kim knew she wanted to be involved with Wycliffe since early elementary school! Kim and Larry met at Oregon SIL—a Wycliffe training school—in 1986 and have been married since 1990. They…
Americas
Justin grew up in Saskatoon, Sask., while Tammy grew up in Chilliwack, B.C. and later (junior and senior high years) in the Peruvian Amazon as a Wycliffe missionary kid. This prairie boy and jungle girl met at Canadian Bible College in Regina, Sask. Their shared interest in South America and their desire to serve in…
Tom moved to Canada from the U.K. in 2008 with his wife Esther and infant daughter to join the language software development team based in the Calgary office, with the goal of supporting the translation of God-breathed Scripture for those who do not have it. He primarily works on development and maintenance of Paratext, a…
South Pacific
Alex was raised in a Christian home in Ottawa, Ont. He earned his BA in linguistics from the University of Ottawa in 2015 and his Master of Theological Studies from Conrad Grebel University College (University of Waterloo) in 2018. The latter included a linguistics internship in Cameroon, Africa with SIL, Wycliffe’s key partner organization. He…
Americas
Ministry Focus: Finance/expense report processing “Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms (1 Peter 4:10 NIV). Steve was working as a commercial truck driver when he learned that Wycliffe moved missionaries with trucks and had a great need for drivers. He…