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GRACE is a "relief" center which arose from a need identified by churches in the Grapevine-Southlake-Colleyville area. Currently, over 25 churches, including Colleyville Presbyterian Church, 40 service providers, 100 businesses and groups, 500+ individuals, and 28 staff members support GRACE.
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Elizabeth Home is a Christian ministry in Denton, Texas, endeavoring "to bring glory to God by providing a warm and loving home (free of charge), for girls and young women facing a crisis pregnancy. The purpose of Elizabeth Home is to establish an environment where broken and hurting girls can receive forgiveness and God's grace and experience new life through Jesus Christ.
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Real Choices provides:
- Free counseling and other resources for young women who are experiencing an unplanned pregnancy and their boyfriends/husbands and families.
- Post-abortion Bible Study/Support Groups or One-on-One Counseling for women and men who have experienced abortion.
- A wide variety of volunteer opportunities for church members to impact their community by helping Real Choices reach women and men considering abortion.
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The primary focus of CPC's involvement in the Church's world-wide mission is exercised in partnership with Peru Mission. Peru Mission co-labors with the Holy Spirit in the major cities of Northern Peru, establishing Christian communities that are molded, shaped, and propelled by the Gospel. Through pastoral ministry, relief work, leadership training, university ministry, parish day-schools, and economic development, the Lord is building strong, vibrant parish churches that are not only becoming self-sustaining and self-propagating, but also actively involved in bringing God's justice, mercy, and peace to the world around them.
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E r i c & Allison P y l e
Wycliffe Bible Translators
Language Software Developer/Trainer
Linguist/Translator
Partnering to advance Bible translation for Bibleless people groups through Bible translation & computer technology
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Eric and his wife, Allison, are members of Colleyville Presbyterian Church, PCA, commissioned to serve the Bibleless peoples of the world with Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Their next assignment, based in Musoma, Tanzania, will be to assist getting the Bible translated into nine different Bantu languages. The region including these nine different languages, called the Mara Region, is the most densely populated area of Tanzania with the fewest churches. (For more information on the Mara region, see http://www.TheTask.net/Mara.)
Eric will assist Mother tongue translators in the use of FieldWorks software for Bible translation and language development. He will use their feedback to help him improve the usefulness of the software. Eric has worked with the Language Software Development team at the International Linguistics Center in Dallas for five years. He has contributed to the development of FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) which assists grammar analysis and the efficient development of dictionaries. Eric has a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a Master's of Arts in Religion from Westminster Theological Seminary.
Allison will assist Mother tongue translators in Bible translation and linguistics. Allison has an MA in Applied Linguistics with a concentration in Bible Translation from the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and BA in Spanish and Psychology from Oklahoma Baptist University.
6,909 languages
spoken in the world
(Ethnologue 16th Edition. 2008. http://www.ethnologue.com)
At the current rate of new Bible translation projects, work will have begun in each language where there is a need by the year 2041. The average rate of documented new starts over the past 9 years is 71 languages per year. (Source: Researched by SIL International, reported by Wycliffe International.)
2,393* languages
with probable need of Bible translation
* representing 200 million people estimated by the data currently available.
Thanks, Eric, for the work you do. You are contributing to the greatest acceleration
of the pace of Bible translation ever witnessed by the Church. Vision 2025 is possible!
--Bob Creson, President Wycliffe Bible Translators USA
If you are interested in partnering with Eric & Allison by praying or giving financially to reach the nations with God’s Word, please visit their ministry webpage for more information.
Wycliffe Bible Translators P.O. Box 628200, Orlando, Florida 32862-8200 ● 1-800-992-5433, ext 3630
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