Dr. Chris and Janine Pluger

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 source texts. He also teaches and helps design courses for the education of future Bible translators. Janine supports local translation teams as Ethiopia Programs Data Coordinator, focusing on long-range planning and goal-setting.

Chris and Janine previously spent five years in Zambia with the Nsenga Bible Translation Project, which dedicated their New Testament in 2016.

Their son Sean lives in Watertown, South Dakota.