BRIDGE
Helping more diverse staff participate in missions — because the whole Church should be represented in Bible translation.
Equity in Calling
Diversity is very important to God and to Wycliffe. However, people of color who are called to serve in missions often face challenges getting started because traditional support-raising models don’t fit their cultural context. It’s time to take a new approach to build pathways to serving in ministry.
Bridging the Gap for Diverse Participation
For over 80 years, Wycliffe Bible Translators has been equipping and empowering minority language communities around the world through Bible translation. Today, we're committed to serving local churches as they lead their own translation programs. And these leaders are pressing toward the finish line at an unprecedented pace!
But here in the U.S., people of color still face challenges to step into world missions. Like you, we want to open missions to all people called to serve. We created Bridge so more people of color can join what God is doing around the world.
- Building pathways — More entryways for diverse staff.
- Raising awareness — Sharing the Bible in multicultural contexts.
- Innovating solutions — Creatively ideating relevant fundraising.
- Diverse participation — Increasing diverse staff in global missions.
- Global impact — Broader participation in the field.
- Empowering churches — Sending and participating in Bible translation.
My vision is that one day, every race, every tongue, every tribe, and every nation will hear the word missionary and see themselves. BRIDGE is a giant step in the direction of that reality.
How Bridge Works
Bridge participants help raise awareness and support for global Bible translation, and innovate new ways to overcome challenges for people of color in missions.
As these participants collectively serve with the Bridge program, they benefit from donations raised for the pooled fund. Giving to this fund can help foster exciting new pathways to empower current and future diverse staff.
Give to Bridge
Your gift supports a pooled fund that helps remove financial barriers for people of color entering missions. Together, we can create sustainable, culturally relevant pathways for the next generation of Bible translation staff.
Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.
