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INSIDE: MORE THAN 20 GIFTS THAT EXPRESS JOY AND CHANGE LIVES. GIFTS STARTING AT $25 2014-2015 GIFT CATALOG true joy GIFTS OF

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INSIDE: MORE THAN 20 GIFTS THAT EXPRESS JOY AND CHANGE LIVES.

GIFTSSTARTING AT

$25

2014-2015 GIFT CATALOG

true joyGIFTS OF

ORDER NOW THROUGH THE ENCLOSED FORM,2 1-800-992-5433 OR WWW.WYCLIFFE.ORG/GIFTCATALOG 3

true joyGIFTS OF

Dear Friend,

Gift giving is a unique joy. Even a simple gift can bring a smile to the face of a friend and warm the heart of a loved one. And you have the deep satisfaction of expressing your love and care in a meaningful way.

I invite you to share your joy of giving through the Wycliffe Gift Catalog. Your joy multiplies because each selection in our catalog provides someone with greater access to the Word of God in the language that speaks to their heart.

In this way you can introduce someone to the sweetest gift of all— the gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.

Take a moment now to select your gifts to honor your friends, family members or colleagues with a gift that truly makes a difference for today and for eternity. Your loved ones will appreciate your thoughtful gift given in their name.

Please select your gifts from the catalog today and mark them on your order form. Be sure to order your free greeting cards for family and friends when you place your order. And please share this catalog, or the online catalog, with your friends, family and church.

Thank you for helping to bring God’s Word to people who are still waiting to hear of His love for them.

Bob Creson President/CEO Wycliffe Bible Translators USA

CHOOSE YOUR GIFTSStart browsing through the catalog now to select your gifts of joy.

MAIL YOUR ORDER FORM

Please use the enclosed envelope to return your order form to Wycliffe or complete your order online at www.wycliffe.org/giftcatalog.

MARK YOUR SELECTIONS ON THE ORDER FORMIndicate the quantity of each gift you have selected on the order form. Don’t forget to order your complimentary honor/memory cards. Then provide your contact information and payment information on the form.

Remember to order your cards!

GIVE JOY IN 3 EASY STEPS

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PROVIDE FINGER PUPPET VIDEOS FOR CHILDREN IN SOUTH AMERICA

You can provide delightful and engaging videos that use a cast of finger puppets—actors’ fingers carefully dressed and painted—to act out Bible stories and teach children about Jesus. Each story is accompanied by five written lessons with worksheets for teachers and kids. Your gift helps our partner Viña produce videos and materials to reach children in two languages in the Caribbean country of Suriname.

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Colorful finger puppets

teach children about Jesus.

GIFT 1 Record finger puppet

videos in two languages in Suriname:

$50

Record Bible story videos for children in South America.

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PROVIDE BIBLE-BASED LESSONS FOR AFRICAN SCHOOLS

Your gift provides professionally illustrated Bible lessons based on the Old and New Testaments for use in public and private schools in a number of African countries. Each lesson uses a Bible story to engage students from a variety of cultural backgrounds in classroom discussions that help them develop character qualities such as honesty and perseverance.

GIFT 2 Christian Life Skills textbooks for one class of children:

$60

GIFT 3 Train one teacher to present Bible lessons:

$125

GIFT 4 Textbooks and teacher training for one school:

$1,200

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Teach God’s Word to schoolchildren today.

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Proclaim the Good News in oral cultures with Audio Scripture.

RECORD AND SHARE AUDIO SCRIPTURES FOR NIGERIA

Your gift of an audio player or an SD (secure digital) memory card for mobile phones makes God’s Word widely available in Nigeria. Portable solar-powered players are easy to use and contain the entire Bible in audio format. SD cards provide access to translated Scripture from anywhere when accessed via mobile phone.

GIFT 5 Help record translated Scripture for audio players:

$100

GIFT 6 Provide one solar-powered audio player or nine SD cards, both with recorded Scripture:

$35

Audio players bring God’s Word

to oral cultures.

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PROVIDE AUDIO SCRIPTURE PLAYERS FOR LISTENING GROUPS IN SOUTH SUDAN

Working with our partner Faith Comes by Hearing, audio recordings of the New Testament in seven languages have been completed in South Sudan. The recordings are now ready to be distributed on handheld, solar powered, digital devices called Proclaimers. Your gift will provide these Proclaimers and help train pastors to organize Bible study “listening” groups so translated Scripture can be made available to everyone.

GIFT 7 Provide Proclaimers with the New Testament for listening

groups in one village in South Sudan:

$157

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PRODUCE AUDIO SCRIPTURES FOR THE BENGI PEOPLE

More than 47 million people in India today are without access to Scripture—which is more than in any other country in the world. Audio Scriptures are a very effective way to reach these people, many of whom live in communities where literacy is very low. You can help produce audio recordings of the New Testament in the Bengi* language for 1,500,000 people in the state of Chhattisgarh. * Name changed for security.

This project is jointly funded with our partner, JAARS, which provides

practical support for Bible translation.

Reach more than one million people with audio Scripture.

GIFT 8 Help record and produce

audio Scripture in the Bengi language:

$25

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BROADCAST GOD’S WORD INTO THE AMAZON BASIN

The tributaries of the mighty Amazon River are lined with villages without any road access. You can help send the life-changing Word of God through the airwaves into these remote communities where few people can read their language. Your gift toward radio broadcasting makes it possible for villagers to hear and respond to God’s Word in the language they understand.

GIFT 9 Support one hour of radio broadcasting:

$75

GIFT 10 Provide radio equipment and training:

$1,750

Radio broadcasting lets remote

villagers hear the Good News.

Radio instantly carries God’s Word into the deepest jungle.

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GIFT 11 Provide 20 copies of the Gospel of Matthew in Nyungwe (Mozambique):

$34

GIFT 12 Provide 20 copies of the Gospel of Luke in Etulo (Nigeria) and in Nyiha (Uganda):

$34

Print God’s Word and let the celebrations begin!

SCRIPTURE IS READY FOR PRINTING IN SIX LANGUAGES

People have been waiting for years as language teams worked to translate Scripture, test it in the community and check it again for accuracy. Now it’s done and the celebration can begin! Your gift of printed Scripture can bring joy to people who speak one of the six different languages which have translated Scripture ready to print.

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GIFT 13 Provide 14 copies of the Gospel of Mark in Lolita and Dayceck languages (Southeast Asia) and Mbugwe (Uganda):

$28

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GIFT 15 Provide training and

support for Roma Bible translators:

$250

Mobilize Roma translators in Eastern Europe.

Expand Scripture translation

and help 12 million Roma people

share God’s love.

TRANSLATE SCRIPTURE FOR ROMA PEOPLE

The New Testament has been translated into just five of the more than 20 different languages spoken by 12 million Roma people. The Roma are a true European people, for they live in almost every country in Europe, from Finland to Spain, from France to Greece. Your gift supports Bible translation for Roma people in Romania and Bulgaria who are still without Scripture in their own language.

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HELP TRANSLATE THE MARKA-DAFIN NEW TESTAMENT

Last year your gifts helped launch Bible translation work among the 200,000 Marka people who live in Burkina Faso. Marka Christians thirst for Scripture and eagerly wait for the day when they can share it with others in their communities which are mainly Muslim. Your gift will help equip and support two Bible translators so that the New Testament translation can move forward.

Reach a people group waiting to hear God speak their language.

GIFT 14 Provide ongoing

translation support for the Marka-Dafin team:

$50

ORDER NOW THROUGH THE ENCLOSED FORM,14

REACH ONE MILLION PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

The Bahah* people in Southeast Asia are the largest people group in their country without God’s Word in their language. Now four Bahah believers have stepped forward in faith and the translation team hopes to complete 75 percent of the New Testament this year and print the Gospels and Acts in a single volume. You can help support and equip them for this important task. * Name changed for security.

TRANSLATE AND RECORD THE OLD TESTAMENT IN DULANGAN MANOBO

In spite of poverty and many other hardships, the Dulangan Manobo people who live in a remote region of Mindanao in the Philippines, long to have the entire Bible in their language. With the completion of the New Testament, many people came to faith, and more than 120 congregations have formed. You can help translate the Old Testament for these Manobo people. Your gift supports the ongoing work of translating the Old Testament and producing audio versions of Bible stories for use in churches and homes.

GIFT 16 Help translate and

provide audio recordings of the

Old Testament:

$150

Introduce more people to Jesus in Southeast Asia.NEW

GIFT 17 Provide training and

support for Bahah translators in

Southeast Asia:

$200

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LAUNCH BIBLE TRANSLATION FOR THE CHONYI PEOPLE IN KENYA

Nearly 90 percent of the 180,000 Chonyi people in Kenya are Christian, but the Chonyi is one of the remaining people groups without God’s Word in their language. The Chonyi language team has completed the groundwork by creating an alphabet. With your help, Bible translation can begin. Your gift helps train and support two Chonyi Bible translators who will start work on translating the books of Matthew and Luke.

GIFT 18 Provide full funding to train

two Chonyi speakers to translate the New Testament

into their language:

$600

GIFT 19 Contribute a share of the

training costs for two Chonyi Bible translators:

$60

ORDER NOW THROUGH THE ENCLOSED FORM,16

EQUIP TRANSLATORS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

More than 800 languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea. Bible translation has yet to begin in roughly 300 of these languages. Christians in Papua New Guinea are willing to help start Bible translation in many of these languages, but they need training. Your gift underwrites the cost of travel, training and lodging for one local translator. This year’s goal: 38 training events to equip 250 Papua New Guineans from 85 language groups.

GIFT 20 Equip Papua New

Guineans to translate God’s Word in their

languages:

$75

Become a partner in training 250 translators in Papua New Guinea.

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HELP COMPLETE THE BORORO NEW TESTAMENT

Once a proud people, the Borôro of the famous Brazilian Pantanal region suffer from generations of alcoholism. Only God and His Word can bring real change. The translation of the New Testament in Borôro is almost complete! Just one book remains to be translated. Your gift will help speed up the work so that 1,600 Borôro people can celebrate the arrival of God’s Word and claim His promises that can give them eternal life.

PROVIDE BIBLE STUDIES IN ETHIOPIA

You can help develop a set of topic-based Bible studies in several Ethiopian languages to be used in small discussion groups in churches throughout Ethiopia. These topical Bible studies will help Ethiopians put the truths of Scripture into action in their lives. Your gift helps identify study topics, and develop and translate the lessons.

GIFT 22 Support the Borôro

translation team to complete the New Testament:

$500

GIFT 21 Produce culturally

relevant Bible study materials in several

Ethiopian languages:

$25

Help people understand and apply Scripture in their cultures.

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PROVIDE MOTORBIKES FOR TRANSLATORS IN CAMEROON

Bible translators in Cameroon often travel to remote villages inaccessible by car to check and discuss early drafts of translated Scripture. Many translators are now making these long journeys on foot or on rented motorcycles. Your gift of a motorbike means that translators can visit more villages to discuss Scripture and spend less time and money getting there. Motorbikes are needed for translators to access six language groups.

GIFT 23 Provide a motorbike for a Bible translator in Cameroon:

$1,600

GIFT 24 One month’s use of a motorbike for a Bible translator in Cameroon:

$40

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INVEST IN THE MINISTRY OF A WYCLIFFE MISSIONARY

The work of Wycliffe goes forward through the ministry of missionaries serving around the world who are dedicated to the task of translating God’s Word. To adequately fund a Wycliffe missionary in their Bible translation ministry, financial partners like you are needed.

GIFT 25 Help fund the Wycliffe

ministry of one missionary family:

$100

Ensure missionaries have the funds needed for their work.

It’s simple, quick and easy to order your gifts of true joy online.

Start spreading joy now at: www.wycliffe.org/giftcatalog

Wycliffe Bible Translators 1-800-WYCLIFFEPO Box 628200 (1-800-992-5433)Orlando, FL 32862-8200 www.wycliffe.org

BEAUTIFUL GIVING CARDS FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

“The commandments of the Lord are right,bringing joy to the heart.”

—Psalm 19:8 (NLT)

These beautiful cards will bring a smile to the face of your friends and family when they see the gift you have made on their behalf.

When making your gift to the Wycliffe Gift Catalog, be sure to include your request for complimentary honor/memory cards on the enclosed order form.

CONSIDER PLACING YOUR ORDER ONLINE NOW.

GIFT# GIFT DESCRIPTION PRICE QUANTITY TOTAL

1 Finger puppet videos for children in South America (997539) $50 ________ $___________

2 Christian life skills textbooks for African school (997526) $60 ________ $___________

3 Train one African teacher to present Bible lessons (997526) $125 ________ $___________

4 Textbooks and teacher training for one school (997526) $1,200 ________ $___________

5 Record translated Scripture for audio players (997527) $100 ________ $___________

6 One audio player or nine SD cards in Nigeria (997527) $35 ________ $___________

7 Proclaimers for listening groups in South Sudan (997531) $157 ________ $___________

8 Produce audio scriptures for the Bengi people (997534) $25 ________ $___________

9 One hour of radio broadcasting along the Amazon (997538) $75 ________ $___________

10 Radio equipment and training in the Amazon Basin (997538) $1,750 ________ $___________

11 Print 20 copies of the Gospel of Matthew in Nyungwe (997543) $34 ________ $___________

12 Print 20 copies of the Gospel of Luke in Etulo and Nyiha (997542) $34 ________ $___________

13 Print 14 copies of the Gospel of Mark in Lolita, Dayceck or Mbugwe (997541) $28 ________ $___________

14 Support the Marka-Dafin translation team (997528) $50 ________ $___________

15 Training and support for Roma translators (997533) $250 ________ $___________

16 Translation and audio recordings for the Dulangan people (997535) $150 ________ $___________

17 Support Bahah translators in Southeast Asia (997536) $200 ________ $___________

18 Train two Chonyi speakers to translate New Testament (997530) $600 ________ $___________

19 Share of training for two Chonyi speakers (997530) $60 ________ $___________

20 Equip Bible translators in Papua New Guinea (997537) $75 ________ $___________

21 Culturally relevant Bible Study materials in Ethiopia (997529) $25 ________ $___________

22 Help complete the Borôro New Testament (997540) $500 ________ $___________

23 Provide a motorbike for a translator in Cameroon (997532) $1,600 ________ $___________

24 One month’s use of a motorbike in Cameroon (997532) $40 ________ $___________

25 Invest in the ministry of a Wycliffe missionary (997544) $100 ________ $___________

Where most needed catalog project (997545) $___________

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