Missionary Family

Wycliffe Bible Translators - Dr Ronnie and Margaret Sim

Ronnie and Margaret Sim left the UK in 1975 and spent 18 years in Ethiopia, translating the New Testament into the Kambaata language and the four Gospels into Hadiyya. For the past 12 years they have been teaching African students in the intricacies of Bible Translation at the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology. The aim of this work is to equip Africans to translate God’s Word into their own particular language. They have recently introduced a PhD programme to enable Africans to teach Africans how to undertake Bible translation.

Wycliffe UK is part of an international family of organisations with over 6500 members from over 60 countries. Work is in progress in nearly 1300 languages. Wycliffe workers are involved in 80% of the translation projects going on today. They have helped to complete 623 translations, making God's Word available to more than 77 million people. This has always been done hand in hand with local communities. For more information click here http://www.wycliffe.org.uk/

Scottish Co-ordinators for WEC International - Wilf and Pat Urquhart

Wilf and Pat Urquhart left the UK in 1970 for Burkina Faso a land locked country in the vast country of Africa, which is one the world’s poorest countries, with over 80% of the population relying on subsistence and agriculture. There they established Christian churches and undertook a range of practical activities such as digging boreholes for clean water etc.

WEC is an international fellowship of Christians working together to obey Christ's great commission. It seeks to plant reproducing churches among the least reached peoples of the world. Currently Wilf and Pat Urquhart are the Scottish Co-ordinators for WEC International. For more information click here http://www.wec-international.org/

Edinburgh City Mission - Rev Bill & Marion Chalmers

Bill and Marion have served with the Edinburgh City Mission since 1975. It is dedicated to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with people in Edinburgh and also seeks to provide practical help and support to those in need, the homeless, the marginalised or socially excluded, those suffering stress through family or work situations, the traumatised, and the lonely.

Bill & Marion and their colleagues cover a wide area reaching into places of work, homes, being at the end of the telephone, aiding the homeless on the streets by offering night shelter, as well as befriending the crews of ships docking at Leith from other countries. For more information click here http://www.edinburghcitymission.org.uk/