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Communication

As a community in God’s mission, we in the Wycliffe Global Alliance share ideas, resources, services and networks with each other. This page includes communication reference tools, available media products and training modules for use by anyone. Comments or questions? Please email the Wycliffe Global Alliance Communication team: info@wycliffe.net.

Communication Reference Tools

1. Style Guide

This Style Guide is compiled by the Alliance Communication team. We generally follow editorial style detailed in The Christian Writer’s Manual of Style. However, we also have developed styles related to our specific work in the Alliance. This Style Guide is a living document, with new and revised styles added periodically. To suggest revisions or additions, please contact Jim Killam.

2. Brand Materials

Alliance logos, fonts, colors and brand guidelines

 

Media Products

1. Written Stories

All articles and photos in the Articles section of this website may be used by Alliance organisations in their publications under a Creative Commons (CC) License. Most of these stories are available in Chinese, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. When you use these articles and/or photos, please give proper credit to Wycliffe.net and indicate if changes have been made.

2. Photos

For the complete Alliance photo library, please visit Skip. Images are free to be used by Alliance organisations to illustrate the work of Bible translation under the Creative Commons license of CC:BY 4.0 or CC:BYNCND 4.0. Proper credit must be given to the photographer(s). For more about Skip, please click here.

3. Videos

Videos produced by the Alliance Communication team are free to use and can be accessed from Wycliffe Global Alliance Vimeo.

 

Training Modules

AI

AI for Beginners

 

Creativity / Inspiration

Rediscovering Wonder

The best writers, photographers, videographers and graphic artists see the world ... differently. They carry supreme senses of curiosity and wonder. They notice details and connections that others might miss. Here are tips for continually sharpening your sense of wonder. Watch on Vimeo

Reporting / Writing /Editing

Finding Great Stories When You Can’t Be there in Person

In a post-pandemic world when travel budgets tend to be smaller, we offer a variety of ways to report good stories remotely. Instructor: Jim Killam, Wycliffe Global Alliance. This video is a 2024 sequel to the one below.

Remote reporting is never our first choice for gathering and reporting stories, but at times it is our only choice. Journalists Jim Killam and Lincoln Brunner discuss ways to pursue this craft.

How to Identity Great Stories

A biblical basis for reporting God's stories; how story works; and how to recognize a great story. Instructor: Jim Killam, Wycliffe Global Alliance. Video includes Spanish subtitles.

Stewardship of Story

Why a deep commitment to story reporting is vitally important for ministry organisations. Instructor: Jim Killam, Wycliffe Global Alliance.

 

Photography

How to Take Better Photos

No matter what your experience level, you can shoot better photos by following a few simple tips.

 

Videography

Subtitling Videos

Subtitling videos in various languages is becoming easier. Here is a step-by-step guide shared by Phil Prior, the Alliance's Director for Communication.

 

For Organisational Leaders

Crisis Response Planning (3-part series)

Crisis Response Planning

Crisis response planning for organisations: 1. Introduction; 2. Tragedy; 3. Cast Study - Pandemic. Instructor: Jim Killam, Wycliffe Global Alliance.

Other Help

News

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05/2025 Global

Special Report - May 2025

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05/2025 Global

‘We’ve come very far, very fast’

A tech observer outlines what AI will mean soon for workplaces and ministry

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Tech pioneer: Christians ‘have to show up’ for AI

Silicon Valley pioneer Pat Gelsinger was CEO of Intel Corporation until December 2024. Quickly realising his career in technology was not finished, he joined the faith/tech platform Gloo in early 2025 as the executive chair and head of technology. He is also a general partner at the venture capital firm Playground Global. Gelsinger was instrumental in the development of cloud computing, Wi-Fi, USB and many other everyday technologies. He estimates his work has touched 60 to 70 percent of humanity. Here are highlights of his keynote talk at the 2025 Missional AI Summit. You can watch his entire talk here. Pat Gelsinger (left) is interviewed onstage by Steele Billings. Both are with Gloo. Watch the full interview here. Is technology good or bad? Technology is neither good nor bad. It’s neutral. It can be used for good. It can be used for bad. … If you think back to the Roman roads, why did Christ come when he came? I’ll argue the Pax Romana and the Roman roads. … The greatest technology of the day was the Roman road system. It was used so the Word could go out. Historical example I will argue Martin Luther was the most significant figure of the last thousand years. And what did he do? He used the greatest piece of technology available at the day, the Gutenberg printing press. He created Bibles. … He broke, essentially, the monopoly on the Bible translations …. He ushered in education. He created the systems that led to the Renaissance. That’s a little punk monk who only wanted to get an audience with the pope because he thought he had a few theological errors. I’ll argue (Luther was) the most significant figure of the last thousand years, using technology to improve the lives of every human that he touched at the time. How today compares to the dawn of the internet AI is more important. AI will be more significant. AI will be more dramatic. … This is now incredibly useful, and we’re going to see AI become just like the internet, where every single interaction will be infused with AI capabilities.  In the 75-year-or-so history of computing, we humans have been adapting to the computer. … With AI, computers adapt to us. We talk to them. They hear us. They see us for the first time. And now they are becoming a user interface that fits with humanity. And for this and so many other reasons that every technology has been building on the prior technology, AI will unquestionably be the biggest of these waves, more impactful even than the internet was. On the need for AI development to be open-source It is so critical because we’re embedding knowledge, embedding values, embedding understanding into those underlying models, large language models and every aspect that happens. It must be open, and this is part of what I think is critical about us being together here today. We need to be creating trusted, open, useful AI that we can build humanity on.  On the need for Christians to help build AI systems We have to show up as the faith community to be influencing those outcomes, because remember what happened in the social media. We didn’t show up, and look at what we got. So are we going to miss this opportunity for something that’s far more important than social networking with AI? Where it truly in the models embeds every aspect of human history and values into it? We have to show up, team. What we do with large language models is far more important because truly we are choosing how we embody knowledge of all time into those underlying models. They need to be open. They need to be trusted. What Christians must bring to the process If we’re going to show up to influence AI broadly, we have to show up with good engineering, good data, good understanding, good frameworks. How do you measure things like ‘Is that leading to better character? Is that leading to better relationships? Is that creating better vocational outcomes? Is that a valid view of a spiritual perspective?’ We need good underlying data associated with each one of these. And for that we’re actively involved. We’re driving to create that underlying data set. Because we need to show up with good data if we’re going to influence how AI is created. How should this work? For the AI systems we need to create good benchmarks. If I ask about God, does it give me a good answer or not? If I ask about relationships with my children, does it give me good answers? We need to create the corpus of data to give good answers to those questions. And, armed with that good data, we need to show up to influence the total landscape of AI. We want to benchmark OpenAI. We’re going to benchmark Gemini. We’re going to benchmark Claude. We’re going to benchmark Copilot.  This is what we’re going to do at Gloo, but we want to be part of a broader community in that discussion so that we’re influential in creating flourishing AI. Technology is a force for good. AI that truly embeds the values that we care about, that we want to honour, that we want to be representing into the future and benchmarking across all of them.   Oh his role with Gloo We are going to change the landscape of the faith community and its role in shaping this most critical technology, AI, for faith and flourishing. That’s what we’re going to do at Gloo and we need all of your help and partnership to do so because if we don’t hang together, we’re not going to influence the outcome, right? ‘Here am I, Lord’ I don’t think I’m done. … You and I both need to come to the same position like Isaiah did. Here am I, Lord. Send me. Send me. Send us. That we can be shaping technology as a force for good. That we could grab this moment in time. This is the greatest time to live in human history. We’re going to solve diseases. We’re going to improve lives. We’re going to educate every person in poverty. We are going to solve climate issues. We are going to be using these technologies to improve the lives of every human on the planet. We are going to shape technology as a force for good. Here am I, Lord. Send me. ••• Story: Jim Killam, Wycliffe Global Alliance Translated with ChatGPT. How was the translation accuracy? Let us know at info@wycliffe.net. Alliance organisations are welcome to download and use images from this series.  

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