Carl & Pat

Carl and Pat are members of Wycliffe Bible Translators, and worked with the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Papua New Guinea from 1974 until June 2025. They are now settling into life in Winnipeg while continuing to work part-time with Wycliffe and SIL. They are sharing their home with two of their unmarried adult children, Lincoln and Stephanie. Two of their sons live in Quesnel, BC — Jason with his wife Windsong, and Sean — and their youngest, Korin, lives in Edmonton with his wife Montze.

Their primary assignment in PNG was working among the Menya people, one of more than 800 language groups in the country. In 2018, the New Testament in Menya was completed. They were also heavily involved in training Papua New Guinea nationals to do literacy and translation work in their own languages.

Now that they are in Canada, Pat is working on reformatting a journal of translation-related articles that began publication in 1950. The purpose is to convert them to a more modern format so that translators around the world can learn from the experience of the early translators who wrote the articles. Carl is continuing to work with three Menya men who are translating various Old Testament books. He makes materials available to help them with their first-draft translations, then interacts with them remotely to check the accuracy, completeness and naturalness of their work.