Calling All Christian IT Professionals…

Welcome to the IT World of Wycliffe

Did you know that your Information Technology (IT) skills uniquely qualify you for involvement in the Great Commission? More than 2,300 languages representing 200 million people with probable need of Bible translation. Unless they can get it in the language that speaks directly to their hearts—their own mother tongue—they are limited in their spiritual growth. Millions more have only portions of the entire Bible. God created you with your IT aptitudes, and you can use those skills to help complete the task. Want to learn more?

The Great Commission and IT

Today's missionaries enter a world that is very different from the one that most missionaries knew even 30 years ago. The world now runs on information maintained by digital systems. Electronic communications, travel, media and the role of software in virtually everything you touch, from cars to watches to music to money, make IT the base for the global infrastructure. This is certainly true in the "developed" world, and is fast becoming the case in the developing world as well. Everything seems to depend on IT to one degree or another. Missionaries cannot function effectively without dependence on IT any more than those who send them.

The logistics and tools for communicating Christ to the world can be seen as a group of related tasks that manages information. The most important body of information that needs management is God's Word itself. That information from a language must be inputted, analyzed, script designed and programmed to work on computers and then delivered (in print or non-print form). There also is the people information management for all those who support the Scripture data collection process. We do not minimize the spiritual dimensions of getting the work done, but all this "data" still has to be physically handled and processed.

Take Our Tour!

This site is organized as a guided tour of the Wycliffe IT side of Bible translation. Our goal is that Christian IT professionals of many nationalities can learn what they need to know about IT within missions—equipping them to ask educated questions about their own IT skills related to Bible translation through Wycliffe. We encourage you to take the tour before contacting us. It will answer the majority of your initial questions and help you make informed decisions about possible involvement with us.

From here, you will get a glimpse of:

The many ways computing serves the Bible translation process.
The different ways you can use your professional IT background to help move Bible translation forward.
To take the tour (or rejoin it), just click one of the links in the Following the Tour block on each page. You can also go directly to a topic of interest using the navigation tree at left.

Attend an IT Conference

You can network with IT missionaries and hear their stories at a Check-IT-Out conference. To learn more or to register go to Check-IT-Out.

See Our Videos

To see a list of our informative IT related videos click here

Our Assumptions About You

You are a committed follower of Jesus Christ and also a professional IT worker.
You agree that all Christians have a role to play in the expansion of God's Kingdom according to scripture.
You take Revelations 5:9 literally: "And they sang a new song: 'You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.'"
You desire that your Christian faith impact your professional background.
You work in IT every day and see how IT serves your company, but you do not know how IT serves God’s Kingdom.
Your previous exposure to Christian missions (i.e., what God is doing in the world) has rarely shown that support role activity (including IT) is ever a feasible or primary ministry.
You want to be able to review your IT profession from heaven and see that what you did with your skills contributed to the only two things the Bible says will last for eternity: the souls of men and the Word of God.