Have you ever been to summer camp? Well, Teen ICC, the JAARS Intercultural Communications Course (ICC), developed especially for teenage children of mission workers, isn’t…
In March 2022, the Gbeya, Kaba, and Ngbugu people in the Central African Republic (CAR) celebrated the dedication of their New Testaments with songs, dancing,…
Besides endangering living creatures, lightning can also endanger computers, especially in Cameroon, Africa, during the rainy season. At the SIL* Center in Yaoundé, Cameroon, where…
Chimpanzees hoot, elephants forage for fallen fruit, and endangered okapi tread through the primeval rainforest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This country is…
Surrounded by jewel-bright parrots and perfume-sweet flowers, two South Americans, Julia* and Bernardo*, serve the remote people of this beautiful continent. They run a local…
Endless hours performing seemingly fruitless work, exhaustion and drained patience, mundane tasks repeated daily: everyone faces them at some point regardless of career choice. Those…
The members of the Suba translation team on Kenya’s Mfangano Island in Lake Victoria—Jael, Boniface, and Samwel—recently faced their fears of deep water. A group…
In a city in Central Asia, six translators from a minority people group, joined by two American translation advisors, gathered daily for three weeks to…
“Without counsel, plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.” Heeding this advice from Proverbs 15:22 to “seek wise counsel,” Kerrick Tweedy of SOAR (Service…