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Jungle Training OverJohn, Karn Beitzel Ready for AssignmentJohn and Karen Beitzel are currently engaged as members-in-training with the Wycliffe Bible Translators.Karen is a 1959 graduate of Arcadia High School. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. William Russell of 600 Santa Rosa Road. Arcadia.Wycliffe Bible Translators seek to make the Bible, first translated into English in the fourteenth century, available to people of every language group in their mother tongue. There are an estimated 2000 languages still unwritten in the world today. To achieve this tremendous goal. Wycliffe works in co-operation with mission boards and governmental agencies in many countries.John, a 1955 graduate of Dover High School, Dover. Ohio, is a radio technologist, having received his training in electronics in the United States Army. He also has worked for the Radio Corporation of America in Cambridge. Ohio for three years. Last summer he trained at the JAARS International Headquarters at Waxhaw. North Carolina. The three month course orients men for jungle service under the supervision of experienced jungle pilots, mechanics and radio technicians.Jungle Aviation And Radio Service was established in 1947 as a department of the Wycliffe Bible Translators. Inc., to meet the urgent need of its members working in remote areas of Peru, translating the Bible.into unwritten languages.The work expanded into other countries and J.AARS became a vital part of the Bible translation program in Ecuador. Bolivia. Brazil. Columbia. New Guinea, the Philippines and Alaska.JAARS makes pioneering possible and practical in isolated areas and forms a lifeline between base and tribe, aiding in medical, educational, agricultural and spiritual programs .With current advances in aviation and radio, the missionary translator need be no further away from his home base than his radio. With the additional safety feature of airplane service, he can be rapidly evacuated from an isolated post within hours.John and Karen recently returned from a three month training program in jungle living, know as Wycliffe's Jungle Camp. This camp is located in Chiapas, Mexico. Trainees are exposed to the rigors of jungle living and are taught how to adapt to new and; different environmental conditions.After additional orientation at the JAARS Headquarters this summer, John and Karen plan on sailing to the Philippines where i they have been assigned to serve for a five year term.
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Arcadia Tribune
Arcadia, California, US
Thu, Jun 09, 1966
Page 87
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