About Our Contributors

Marc Ewell

In 2010, Marc began serving as a photographer with Wycliffe in South-East Asia. Now living with his wife in Hong Kong, Marc works as a photojournalist with the international Wycliffe News Network team.  Serving with Wycliffe has taken Marc around the world to document the stories of people who are working to make God’s word available in minority languages. This personal interaction with passionate people is Marc's inspiration for the images he captures.

Elaine Bombay

Motivated by a lifelong fascination of languages and a desire to serve God cross culturally, Elaine joined Wycliffe Bible Translators in 1998 and moved to Africa in 2001. She served in various roles in Cameroon, Chad, and Kenya until 2013 when she returned to Canada to pursue training in photojournalism. Through words and images, Elaine tells the story of how God is working in lives and communities through Bible translation.

Kenji Kondo

Kenji was born and raised in Japan into a Buddhist family. After moving to Canada, he was introduced to the gospel and accepted Jesus as his saviour at age 24. Kenji has been serving Wycliffe as a multimedia designer since 2000. Kenji, his Canadian wife Sandy, and two young boys are now living in Japan again and serving a Deaf-led Christian organization that supports Sign Language Bible translation projects in 15 countries in Asia Pacific region. He is learning sign language everyday in order to teach multimedia design to Deaf over Skype. Kenji loves photography and fishing.

Heather Pubols

Heather has been working in various communications roles for Wycliffe since 2000. Heather loves being able to use her communications skills for the ministry of Bible translation and her work has taken her to more than 30 countries. Heather currently leads the Wycliffe News Network – a global journalism team that gathers stories of how God is at work in Bible translation around the world. Skip features images primarily from Heather’s travels throughout Africa. You can follow Heather on her ministry blog – Postscript.

Aileen Agoncillo

Aileen started working with Wycliffe in 2002 as a video production specialist. She has since served in a variety of communications roles, including serving Wycliffe as a Communications Consultant and Strategist in Asia and the Pacific.

Aileen has loved being able to be a part of the work of Bible translation in ways that have helped others to see God at work around the world. 

Currently based in the U.S., Aileen serves as Asia Liaison for the Wycliffe News Network and Associate Director of Church Partnerships for Wycliffe USA.

Rodney Ballard

Rodney began his ministry with Wycliffe working for CAM (construction and maintenance) in PNG, USA and The Philippines. Married with three children, Rodney and his family currently live and work in Cameroon where Rodney serves in Africa as a photojournalist with the Wycliffe News Network. 

Soren Kjeldgaard

Soren is a Copenhagen based professional photographer who has been volunteering for Wycliffe since 2010. He focuses on Europe, the Middle East and Africa but has worked in many countries around the world. Visit his website www.sorenkjeldgaard.com to see some of his work.

Zeke du Plessis

Elyse Patten

Working as a photojournalist for Wycliffe for few years, Skip features many of Elyse's images - from sign language translation in India, to Hebrew classes in PNG, to the vibrant celebration of Brazil’s CONPLEI Congress and the intimacy of village life in Vanuatu. Elyse is thrilled to assist the ministry of Bible translation from where she was born to be - behind a camera. Elyse serves on the international Wycliffe News Network team and focuses on the Pacific area from Brisbane, Australia. 

Ari Vitikainen

Ari has been working among the ethnic minority people in South-East Asia as an education specialist and development worker since 2001. He has been photographing ethnic minority people and their lifestyle especially in Cambodia where he worked for eight years and in Laos where he is based today. Find Ari’s latest work on Flickr.