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Wycliffe,
PAOC sign partnership agreement
Mississauga, ON – Wycliffe
Bible Translators of Canada and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
(PAOC) will formally work together to help start Bible translation
in languages that need it by 2025.
To that end, Wycliffe Canada’s
Executive Director Dave Ohlson signed a partnership agreement with
Dr. William Morrow, PAOC General Superintendent, and Murray
Cornelius, PAOC Assistant Superintendent, International Missions, at
the PAOC’s Mississauga, ON, head office this past March.
"Being able to partner with
the largest evangelical denomination in Canada, where we find PAOC
directly engaged in the Bible translation movement," said Ohlson,
"is from our perspective one of the most exciting partnership
agreements that Wycliffe Canada has made in recent history."
Under the agreement, existing
Wycliffe PAOC members will be recognized as official PAOC
missionaries and more will be recruited for the task of Bible
translation. The PAOC will carry the main responsibility to assist
new Wycliffe members from the denomination in raising their
financial and prayer support in consultation with local sending
churches, and place them on the PAOC payroll.
In an effort to recruit more
workers for Bible translation, Wycliffe will facilitate, assist and
resource the PAOC and her churches wherever needed. As well,
Wycliffe will provide service opportunities, expertise and
supervision for Wycliffe PAOC personnel on the field.
Meanwhile, the PAOC also
signed a partnership agreement with Global PartnerLink (GPL), the
division of Calgary-based Wycliffe Canada that raises money for
national Bible translation-related projects around the world.
PAOC’s goal is to fund as many
GPL-sponsored projects as it can over the next eight years. Bible
translation still needs to begin in about 2,250 languages worldwide,
a goal that Wycliffe Bible Translators and other agencies hope to
see reached by the year 2025. Visit
www.wycliffe.ca or www.paoc.org.
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