Last Languages Celebration a success

By Bob Creson, President, Wycliffe USA In 1999, when Wycliffe Bible Translators USA first committed to the vision of seeing a Bible translation project in progress for every language that needs it by the year 2025, we knew we faced a difficult challenge with tremendous potential. The urgency of Vision 2025 was sure to take […]

By Bob Creson, President, Wycliffe USA

In 1999, when Wycliffe Bible Translators USA first committed to the vision of seeing a Bible translation project in progress for every language that needs it by the year 2025, we knew we faced a difficult challenge with tremendous potential. The urgency of Vision 2025 was sure to take us places we’d never before thought possible.

Bob Creson speaks at the launch of Wycliffes’ Last Languages Campaign in Orlando, November 2008.

As we move closer to 2025, it has become increasingly apparent that we face an unprecedented need for resources, not only to sustain our present translation commitments, but also to continue to accelerate our pace.

In response to these growing needs, Wycliffe USA recently launched the Last Languages Campaign—a strategic plan to raise the resources needed to reach the last languages with God’s Word.

Logic would say that fundraising in the middle of a recession would be nearly impossible, but one anonymous donor has already given a $50 million donation to the campaign—the largest donation Wycliffe has ever received.

On November 21 and 22, nearly 1,000 people gathered at the Wycliffe USA office in Orlando to officially launch the campaign with a celebration. Near the end of the event, as I walked to the platform to speak, a young boy reached out and gave me a high-five. I will treasure that image for a very long time. To me it was a picture of God’s enthusiasm for reaching the least, the last and the lost. It reassured me that although our task is great, this is God’s work and He will bless it.