Wycliffe visits Uganda-Tanzania

Wycliffe’s Integrated Marketing Communications department has sent a team to Uganda–Tanzania consisting of WF’s Scott Toncray, along with Wycliffe USA’s Jon Shuler and Nick Wolverton. They will be accompanied by journalists from Moody Radio and Christian Broadcast News.  Bob Creson, President–Wycliffe USA will be on this trip as well and will serve as primary spokesperson […]

Wycliffe’s Integrated Marketing Communications department has sent a team to Uganda–Tanzania consisting of WF’s Scott Toncray, along with Wycliffe USA’s Jon Shuler and Nick Wolverton. They will be accompanied by journalists from Moody Radio and Christian Broadcast News.  Bob Creson, President–Wycliffe USA will be on this trip as well and will serve as primary spokesperson for the reports that will be sent via satellite back to the U.S. using our new Streambox technology.

Between May 13 and 19, the team will visit projects focused on the Mara Cluster and Bwisi language group. Members of the media will interview national and ex-patriot translators, observe AIDS awareness seminars, and will learn how Wycliffe and its primary partner, SIL, are working to accelerate the pace of translation through cluster projects and new technology, such as Adapt-It software.

The information below will enable you to follow this journey on a variety of platforms. We ask for your prayers for the health and safety of the team, for the technology to work, for our field colleagues for whom hosting media is a new venture, and for the people who will be touched by this visit. We also ask that you would pray that the messages received by people in America will touch their hearts and motivate them to connect with us.

Social media sites to check out:

Wycliffe’s Google profile is the place to go if you want to find links to ALL forms of social media that Wycliffe is now using and will be updating from Africa.

Wycliffe’s blog will be the location to find written updates from team members. It also includes links to other social media sites.

Whenever the team is able, they will upload raw and unpackaged videos of the trip to Wycliffe’s page on YouTube.

Twitter is generally referred to as a microblog and uses 140 characters or less to answer the question “What are you doing?” This can be updated via text message, so team members should be “tweeting” frequently throughout the trip about the events of their travels.

As often as possible, new photos will be uploaded to the Wycliffe Flickr page.

The technology of UStream.tv should provide a relatively high quality live video transmission back to the States. If any of these broadcasts are scheduled, Twitter, Facebook and the Wycliffe blog will be updated to reflect that information.

Most (if not all) of the various forms of social media used on the trip will be aggregated on the Wycliffe fan page on Facebook. It will be home to status updates from Twitter, photos from Flickr, videos from YouTube, blogs from WordPress and live streaming videos straight from UStream.tv.