Projects

The Wycliffe Global Alliance creates and promotes collaborative projects to benefit the entire Alliance or a significant number of Alliance organisations.  These projects are funded by Alliance organisations. A single organisation may decide to fund an entire project or, ideally, funding will come from multiple organisations.

This collaborative method of funding projects reflects the Alliance values —that each organisation has the capacity and the opportunity to participate in the life of the Alliance. 

Current project funding opportunities appear below. If your Alliance organisation is interested in knowing more, please contact us at info@wycliffe.net.

Current Project Funding Opportunities

•  Church-Centric Vision for Bible Translation in Latin America

Preview: As mission involvement in Latin America has expanded over the last decade, key church leaders have expressed the desire to take an expanded role in Bible translation training. A project titled Bible Translation Training Embedded in Latin America was implemented between FY22 and FY24, using the course developed by Alliance Director for Collaboration Bryan Harmelink, Language and Translation in the Mission of God (LTMG). This course helped to incorporate training about Bible translation into seminaries in Latin America, and also provided an inspiring vehicle for communicating to church leaders the importance of Bible translation in the mission of God. This current proposal has a church-centric vision for the next three years that flows from results of the previous project. Beyond reaching those in key training centres, the LTMG course material now will also be used to engage church and denominational leaders in specific events conducted at the request of church leaders. Therefore, the vision has grown from thinking specifically of training centres, to thinking of being responsive to churches as a whole in holding events at locations that serve them best. Find out more.

•  Consultations on the Church and Bible Translation

Preview: Leaders in the Wycliffe Global Alliance have increasingly recognized the need for greater collaboration and partnership with churches in global Bible translation movements. The proposed Consultations on the Church and Bible Translation will create space for discussion, in order to deepen missiological and biblical-theological understandings of Bible translation. This could be the catalyst for greater collaboration in designing and implementing sustainable church- and community-based translation programs. It provides an opportunity as well to review and refine at least two of the participation streams: Church and Bible Translation Programmes. Find out more.

•  Global Image Sharing System

Preview: The Alliance’s Skip photo library has moved from obsolete supporting technology to PhotoShelter, a leading digital asset management tool. The license fee was initially paid through September 2024. The photo library has more than 300 users from all four Alliance regions. In the new library’s first 12 months, these users downloaded more than 10,000 images. Now, funding is needed for the next two years to continue providing this valuable resource to all Alliance organisations. Find out more.

•  Africa Area Bible Translation Consultant Cohort

Preview: 370 Bible translation projects are being managed by 18 Alliance organisations in Africa. But there are only 53 certified consultants for these projects, along with 72 more in training. The need is urgent. This project will provide a forum that allows translation consultants to work together. It will simplify checking requests and allow continuous support. It will also support the updating of training materials for consultants-in-training, especially in light of the increased community involvement in the process. Find out more.

• PhD Research to Strengthen consultant work in the Americas

Preview:  The candidate, seeks to complete a doctoral programme in theology at the Evangelical University of Paraguay. It is a four-year programme, with two years of course work (already completed) and two years of research. The programme’s mission is to form people highly competent in biblical-theological training, who can equip the people of God and prepare new generations to be instruments in the Missio Dei. The goal is for this individual to: 1) enhance the capacity of leaders and 2) strengthen Bible translation consultant work in the Americas Area. The current shift toward increased, direct church involvement in Bible translation makes this research timely as we seek an appropriate model of consultancy in this context. Find out more.