WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS - PERU
e-mail: ticuna.anderson@gmail.com
Lambert and Doris Anderson have dedicated their lives to some 100,000 Ticuna natives located in the Amazon jungle. For 74 years Lambert and Doris have worked alongside Ticuna partners to translate and publish the Word of God in their native tongue which was completed in 2023. The Ticuna Bible is now being distributed throughout the region with much success. The Ticuna people live in some 250 communities along 1,000 miles of Amazon River in Peru, Colombia and Brazil.
In 1996 Ticuna pastors and leaders in Cushillococha requested the Andersons’ help to initiate the Ticuna Bible Institute which now trains approximately 80 Ticuna students annually for ministry. Students, traveling by river from villages hundreds of miles away, come to attend the Institute’s program of four cycles of intensive studies. Following each 9-week cycle the students return to their villages to put into practice what they have learned. Upon graduation they go out equipped as Pastors, Sunday School Teachers and Spiritual Leaders to teach others of Salvation in Christ Jesus, using the translated Scriptures and teaching materials.
Work is currently being done to adapt the Ticuna Bible for Brazil. Lambert continues working on this project daily over the internet, along with two highly qualified Ticuna co-translators, with an estimated completion date of 2027.
Doris continues working on the Ticuna church hymnal, to eventually have more than 100 songs published for the Ticuna churches.
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A deligation from CCC traveled to the Amazon jungles of Peru in 2023 to witness the Ticuna Bible Dedication. The printing of the fully-translated Ticuna Bibles are the culmination of the life work of Doris and Lambert Anderson. We’re put together a video that captures the highlights of the trip, the dedication ceremony, and God’s marvelous work among the Ticunas.