WT Eng 2021-04

April 2021

We partner with the church to make disciples by translating God’s Word into the language
they understand best, that their lives may be transformed.

For internal circulation only by Evelyn Cheng WYCLIFFE TODAY 1

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MEET OUR

NEW BOARD MEMBERS

VIVE SUPRAMANIAM

Board Chair

RON LOW

Vice Chair

TAN LAY LENG

Executive Director

PETER TAN

Treasurer

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grew up in a church-going family, wearing a “sarong”. I was really
which meant I heard the gospel from encouraged to meet the local Ibans who
a young age. At that time, it did not became Christians. Thanks to some
mean much to me, except that I had to faithful gospel workers, they even have the
wake up early to go to Sunday School. I Bible in their own local language! That
thought pleasing God was very much like caused the Iban churches to �lourish and
pleasing an earthly Asian father. He was grow. Hearing my Iban brothers and
someone to be feared and respected, and I sisters in Christ praise our Almighty God
had to do a list of things in order to earn deeply touched me. Since Scripture is how
His approval, or suffer His wrath if I did God speaks to us, it makes sense that
not comply. My faith was challenged when everyone should have access to the bible
I went to the US at the age of 18 years old in their own heart language.
and encountered Christians from a culture
very different from mine. We read the It �illed me with so much joy, and I hoped I
same Bible, yet lived such different lives. would one day be a part of God’s mission
In fact, it did not seem like we worship the in the world to make disciples of all
same God at all - was my life all a lie? I nations, baptizing them in the name of the
realized I did not really know God after all, Father and of the Son and of the Holy
what I knew was based on tradition and Spirit, teaching them to observe all that
blind faith. I was in a state of despair for a Jesus has commanded us (Matt 28:19-20).
few months. Even though God had planted in me a
desire for cross-cultural missions, I was not
By God’s grace, He did not give up on me. I ready, nor was I equipped. I told God, if He
started digging deeper into His Word, and would use me one day, I would be willing,
I �inally understood that God accepts me but only if He promised to be with me to
not because of what I have done, but lead the way!
because of what Jesus has done for me. He
died on the cross for our sins, but He did After a 2 year ministry internship program
not stay dead - He resurrected again as with my church, I have �inally joined
King! I no longer had to work so hard to Wycliffe in March 2021 by faith with much
gain His approval. My life turned around ‘fear and trembling’. As I move forward,
as I repented and gradually grew in my please do pray that God would accomplish
faith and understanding of God through His purposes in and through me, that my
His Word. desire for His glory would be greater than
my desire for comfort. But we have this
My �irst exposure to cross-cultural treasure in jars of clay, to show that the
missions was when my dad took my sister surpassing power belongs to God and not
and me on a mission trip organized by my to us. (2 Cor 4:7)
church to the longhouses in Betong,
Sarawak. At that time, I was young and
adventurous, and I was unfazed by the
thought of having to bathe in the river

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