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| Is it really possible to start a Scripture translation in every language that needs one in the next two decades! Yes! But we need a massive influx of Wycliffe members who will work along side nationals and other partners to get the job done. |
| That’s where Norm comes in. He is the director of mobilization for Wycliffe’s Southwest Office located in Temecula, Ca. He and his staff of 20 spread throughout five states in the Southwest US are sharpening their skills in mobilization to present the need for Bible translators and show people who have a vibrant relationship with the Lord and a love for the lost how they can be a part of this amazing Bible translation task as members of Wycliffe. Our goal is to recruit 7,000 new members by the year 2014. With God this is possible! |
| Please pray for those people that our Wycliffe recruiters are working with. We know God is calling some of them. |
| We think of recruitment along the lines of this Oswald Chambers quote: |
| "God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him, He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God." - Oswald Chambers |
| Norm and I have been married 28 years and have been members of Wycliffe for 27 years. We served in the Philippines for 15 years--fist in a tiny village doing literacy work and then in metropolitan Manila where Norm traveled all around central Philippines to supervise Bible translators. |
| Because of his background in working with first generation churches and national Christians, Norm has been called on to advise a church here in Southern California that is investing in a first generation church in India. He has made two trips to that first generation church and seen firsthand the growth of the individuals and the church. |
| Patricia’s book And the Word Came with Power has been translated into 8 languages. She continues taking on writing projects for Wycliffe. |
| Other of Norm and Patricia’s favorite missionary quotes: |
| "And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted."
- Nate Saint |
| "I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done for China... I don't know who it was... It must have been a man... a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing... and God looked down... and saw Gladys Aylward... And God said - "Well, she's willing."
- Gladys Aylward |
| "We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God."
- John Stott |
| "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
- Jim Elliot |
| "The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner."
- William Cameron Townsend |
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http://www.wycliffe.org/ |