Paul & Ali Federwitz
Meet the Missionary Paul and Ali have been serving with Lutheran Bible Translators since 2006, first in Ghana and now in Ethiopia. Paul has served partners and missionaries in various IT roles, helping people use technology to further the work of Bible translation. He currently serves as Director for Field Programs. In this role he…
Deanne Gochanour
Meet the Missionary After growing up in Watertown, WI, Deanne attended Concordia University in Irvine, CA while majoring in Lutheran Elementary Education in hopes to serve God through teaching children. Deanne joined Lutheran Bible Translators after graduating from Concordia University in Irvine and pursued her passion in teaching by homeschooling missionary children in Ghana. She…
Dr. Jim and Susan Kaiser
Meet the Missionary Dr. Jim and Susan Kaiser are excited to help translation teams finish their translations of the Bible. Jim serves as a translation consultant with teams in Ethiopia and Sierra Leone. Some of this work involves traveling to visit the teams, and some is done using video chat through the internet. In the…
Dr. Chris and Janine Pluger
Meet the MissionarIes Chris and Janine Pluger live in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where they are helping to build Bible Translation capacity in the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) and beyond. Chris is working as a Translation Consultant with multiple Bible translation projects, helping improve translations and ensure accuracy to the original Greek and Hebrew…
