Eddie and Sue Arthur Newsletter June 2009

Vision 2025 Family News Together with partners worldwide, we aim to see a Bible translation programme David is coming to the started in every language which needs one by 2025. end of his degree at Bris- In Wycliffe, we believe that Vision 2025 is something that God has called us to. Our family tol with just his final few exams to go. In July he of organizations worldwide are looking for new ways to work and new partners to work will start work as a Web with so that this vision can become a reality. When we first adopted Vision 2025 back in Developer with a small 1999 we were on course to start a translation project in every language by 2150. Over the software house near to last ten years we have shaved around a hundred years off that projection , but there is Bristol. It is really still a long way to go. encouraging that he has Keeping Pace as UK Director managed to find a job at this rather difficult time It is my job as Director of Wycliffe UK to help the British Church to play its full role in for the economy. seeing Vision 2025 come about. Effectively, my job breaks down into two main parts. Firstly , I have to help keep Wycliffe running , this involves budgets, human resources Sam is finishing his first policies, legal issues, and all of the other things that are part and parcel of keeping a large year at Essex and seems to be doing well. During charity functioning and respecting all of the rules and regulations that you can’t avoid the year he has devel- these days. The second part of my job is to be out on the road , representing Wycliffe and oped a great love for encouraging churches and individuals to play a part in Vision 2025. rock climbing, which is pretty impressive given I’m fortunate that I get to work with an excellent team , all of whom know their specialist how flat most of Essex areas far better than I do. Thankfully, this means that very often my role is to coordinate is. He plans to do a lot of the efforts of the team rather than try to deal with some of the complex issues on my travelling over the sum- own. mer.

Involving UK Churches Sue, Bassam and I are There are all sorts of ways that churches and individuals in Britain can get involved in planning a couple of helping make Vision 2025 come true. They can support missionaries like Sue and I, they weeks walking in the can partner with a church in Africa who are doing Bible translation into their own Lake District in June. It language, they can help to finance translation and literacy projects around the world and will be good to get away of course they can pray or even help Wycliffe out on a long or short term basis. The needs from the office for a while. We thoroughly are immense and if we are going to see this amazing vision become a reality, then we will enjoy the need to see British Christians involved in all sorts of ways. One exciting partnership has where we live. It is hard been with Saltmine Theatre Company . They toured the country with a presentation of to believe that such the Bible story in one hour, which was then followed by a short presentation of the needs lovely and isolated coun- of Bible translation. Hundreds of people who had never heard that there was a need for tryside can be so close Scripture translation were challenged during the tour and it was a huge encouragement to London – but it isn’t to us. the North!

Training Translators Sundays are often a Sue meanwhile continues concentrating on working to make Vision 2025 a reality by working day for us as I training and equipping translators for languages which don’t yet have any Scripture get lots of invitations to preach in various places. available to them. Her spring trip to Madagascar had to be cancelled, but in June she will When we are at home, make a first ever trip to Nigeria to help train translators there. This will involve very we are settling in to similar work to that which she has been doing in Madagascar, with the added Christ Church in simplification that she won’t have to work in French or Malagasy. Meanwhile, she . continues working on her Master’s in Biblical interpretation.

As you can see, there is still a tremendous need for Bible translation all round the world. Thank you for playing your part in making Vision 2025 a reality through your prayer and financial support for us. We are very, very grateful.

Please continue to pray for us that we would know best how to make this amazing vision a reality.

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