Orality Seminar 2025
On Saturday 28 June 2025, a group of people gathered in Wesley Methodist Church Ipoh to learn about and experience Orality and Oral Bible Storytelling. This year’s Orality Seminar was intentionally hosted in Ipoh for the benefit and convenience of churches and congregations in Northern…
Making Jesus Alive through Film
On the first weekend in August, three Wycliffe Malaysia members and two church members travelled to Pahang. The first stop was Temerloh, and the second stop were the *Sem villages. We went there for two reasons: to run a training workshop for participants to use…
From Vision to Nations When God Expands our Borders
Wycliffe Malaysia in Peru – An Unexpected Journey of Faith and Partnership In the fourth quarter of 2024, a sister from Canada who visited AIDIA in Peru encouraged them to reach out to a Wycliffe organization for help as they were preparing to begin several…
The Word in Spoken Tamil (Vaimoliyaga Vethagamam)
An initiative to bring the Bible orally among Tamil-speaking churchesby the Tamil team An Indian pastor noted, “When we invite our Tamil-speaking congregation to pray, everyone prays aloud. When we lead them in singing Tamil hymns, they sing with enthusiasm. But when it comes to…
Oral Bible Translation: What it is and Why We Do It.
by Evelyn Gan and Ellysha Cheng When we were living in Kupang, West Timor, my husband Timothy was sent to an island not too far away. He attended a church service there where everything was in Bahasa Indonesia. The congregation sang all the hymns with…
Meet Our Newest Members – Alison Khew
I became a Christian eighteen years ago. At that time, I had two young children and was working as a secretary in a company. After that, I changed jobs several times, including working in my husband’s company, and five years ago I started working as…
IMPACT STORIES from the village
One early morning, while her family was asleep, Tikah* took out the pills she had hidden. There were about 30 or 40 of them. Looking at these pills that had been stored for a long time, she took a breath, calmly took out a glass…
How can we better communicate the Scriptures to oral learners?
In mid-January 2024, Wycliffe Malaysia conducted a two hour oral Scripture storying mini workshop on Logos Presbyterian Church’s invitation. The workshop was conducted for members of the church comprising Sunday School teachers and those involved in short-term mission trips with other language communities. During the workshop, participants experienced a Storying Fellowship Group (SFG), before having a time of debrief and Q&A.
Two Exciting Developments for the Semelai Community
It is said that film brings Jesus’ story to life like no other medium can. And a film in the heart language of the people does even more. It is not just the end-product that will bring to life the story of Jesus but also the entire process of getting it done by people of their own community. It is something that has never been done before, the first of its kind for the Semelai Community. It takes a higher hand to make this a reality for them. Ordinary people doing an extraordinary task because they know the extraordinary God. Only He can prepare the way and call the right people to come and work together.
Christmas: Celebrating Our Hope in Jesus
Time flies and very soon we will be welcoming another year. As I reflect on the past months of 2023, I am overflowing with gratitude and thanksgiving to our Lord Jesus Christ for being who He claims to be…… faithful and just, a promise keeping God. While 2023 has not been the easiest year for me, it has also been a very….
