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<H3 class=entry-header>Wycliffe staffers to bike cross country in fund-raiser
for Bible translation efforts</H3></DIV>
<DIV> Allie Martin <SMALL><A
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<P>Two staff members with Wycliffe Bible Translators will set out next week for
a cross-country bicycle tour as part of an effort to raise awareness for the
need of Bible translation.</P></DIV>
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<P>Vision 2025 is an initiative by <A href="http://www.wycliffe.org"
target=_blank>Wycliffe Bible Translators</A> to have a Bible translation program
in place in every language by the year 2025. To help promote the effort, two
staff members will leave from Los Angeles next Wednesday and ride, along with
five other bicyclists, to Lynchburg, Virginia.</P>
<P>In an interview with <EM>Mission Network News</EM>, Doug Haag said the
ministry will partner with an organization called Faith Comes by Hearing. The
organization records and dramatizes audio versions of the New Testaments that
are translated by Wycliffe. "Their passion is to see it in audio form, in a way
that's professional quality that would have immediate impact on these oral
cultures," says Haag. "So you not only have it written down and available [and]
accessible that way, but for these people groups to have it in this audio form
as well."</P>
<P>Haag says that more than 50 percent of the world's population would choose to
hear the Bible instead of reading it. He says that is because in many societies
around the world, people learn best by sharing stories. The money raised from
the bicycle tour will be used to make translated Scripture accessible to two
people groups in Guatemala.</P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>