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800th Language to Receive a Full Bible
The 800th language receives a complete Bible, up from 500 in 2013 — and the Fulfulde team has half of the Old Testament ready to publish.
Doug & Priscilla Higby · Wycliffe Bible Translators
Harnessing technology to accelerate the translation of God’s Word
We are full-time members of Wycliffe Bible Translators, serving with SIL Global — Doug as Director of Language Technology Use, Priscilla as Manager of Academic Production and Digital Bible Library Content.
- 800 languages with a complete Bible
- 1,967 languages still waiting for any Scripture
- 75 letters home since 2008
- 50 countries visited
Three Ways to Stand With Us
Read
A few times a year we write home about what God is doing through Bible translation, and where the work has taken us.
Pray
Prayer is the work beneath the work. Every letter ends with Prayer & Praise, and Prayer Updates brings you short requests as they come up — tick it when you sign up.
Give
As Wycliffe missionaries we are not paid a salary. We trust God to provide a team of individuals, families and churches who pray for us and give to support this ministry.
Doug & Priscilla
Our hearts have a special place for the Fulani people, among whom we lived and served for eight years. These days we work from a home office in Grand Rapids, Michigan, between travelling to give training events and attend conferences.
We were motivated to be the pioneer translators who would “stand in the gap” for a people who would otherwise never receive the Gospel. The ministry we ended up in is one we never would have dreamed of when we started out.
Our ministry · Our faith journey
Our theme verse
So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
— 2 Corinthians 5:20–21 (NLT)
Verse 21 refers to Jesus Christ, who paid the penalty of our sins by his death on the cross, enabling us to be reconciled with God. If you’d like to learn more about Jesus, we encourage you to read the Gospel of Mark in a modern version of the New Testament.
Where we have served
Fifty countries, one purpose
Eight years among the Fulani in West Africa, a school in Germany’s Black Forest, training workshops from Nairobi to Chiang Mai. The larger dots are places our letters were written from or about — click one to read them.
- Visited
- In the letters
- Home, Grand Rapids
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