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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.

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2025 Year-end Report

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Multilingual Support Agents

In just three months, the Language Technology Use department that I (Doug) manage has gone from offering support for Bible translators in 9 languages to now providing help in over 95…

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AI, New Partnerships & 35 Years of Ministry

Thirty-five years married and thirty-five years with Wycliffe, marked at Cape Point — while Doug helps draft SIL’s official approach to artificial intelligence.

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Building Capacity That Multiplies

I (Doug) am writing this from Kenya where I am skipping out on a training session on Scripture App Builder for our African colleagues.

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2024 Year-end Report

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Lausanne Report from the Higbys

Doug represents SIL’s Bible translation technology at the Fourth Lausanne Congress in Seoul, showing sil.tools and ScriptureEarth.org to five thousand church and mission leaders.

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Releasing the Power of God's Word - August 2024

When we were at a conference in Thailand earlier this year, a Bible translator came up to us after one session with a serious problem.

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Just can't delete God's Word! - February 2024

The 1990s marked a significant milestone with Reinier de Blois of United Bible Societies developing Paratext, a program initially designed to assist in Biblical exegesis.

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2023 Year-end Report

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How many living languages are there today? -- August 2023

Our family is all back in the Grand Rapids area now, as Roger has completed his two-year term serving at the Black Forest Academy in Germany.

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Family, corpora, and consultants ... all growing! -- March 2023

The arrival of Addilyn Kaye on Sunday, February 12, happened shortly after Henry and Kaitlyn moved back to Kent County after years spent away for Henry's medical training.