Steve and Glenda Kvale are AFLC World Missionaries on Loan to Wycliffe. They are still in their initial fund raising before they can start. Please consider helping with this important ministry.
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As an IT Professional, I feel passionate about my work but desired to use this skill for an eternal purpose. I was excited to find out that Bible translation needed me!
Wycliffe’s purpose is to see that God’s Word is translated for people everywhere in the language they know and understand best. Translators, literacy specialists, pilots, doctors and many others all serve together as part of a dynamic team committed to the goal of Bible translation. Advanced computer support, software development and training are critical to the success of each of these tasks, not only for ongoing communication needs and infrastructure development, but also for developing and maintaining efficient and effective linguistic tools. IT professionals are one of Wycliffe’s most critical needs today, with more than 200 personnel needs worldwide. Specialists are needed in many capacities.
My assignment will be to serve with the computer missionary team in Orlando, FL at the Wycliffe Bible Translator’s headquarters there. To support the information needs of Wycliffe missionaries all over the world will help speed and accuracy in translation work, support their personal needs through tools as simple as email that enable communication and make the village stays for some seem shorter and easier to bear. I am excited to join this team hopefully in mid-January of 2009! The plan is to be orientated with them for 45 days building a relationship and developing my specific role. I would then return to MN and set up to work remotely where the cost of living would be much less but I may serve just as efficiently and effectively as an active, involved team member.
We are trusting God to complete our ministry team with the remaining 20% in monthly financial partners by the end of this year or first part of January 2009. As individuals, families, churches and groups interested in missions join us as team members with their financial partnerships; we are enabled to serve in this capacity for the long term.
It will be prayer that opens this last door as God rises up these remaining partners through the Holy Spirit that calls them. If you are sensing God’s call to participate in the great commission in this way and would like to join us in supporting the efforts of Bible Translation, please send a note stating your one-time, monthly, quarterly, or yearly gift plan for the ministry of Steve & Glenda Kvale, ministry account #200316 to: Wycliffe Bible Translators, P O Box 628200, Orlando, FL 32862-8200.
THANK YOU so much for the prayers that have brought us to this point and as we press on for the sake of spreading God’s Word to the nations!
With you and for HIM, Steve Kvale
