About The Author
Charles
Micheals is a native of Michigan and lived the first thirty years of his life there, eventually
working in the grocery industry. In 1985 his wife Barbara and their four small children joined Wycliffe
Bible Translators and moved to the country of Papua New Guinea (PNG) where they worked with the
internationally known non-profit linguistic organization, SIL International (formerly the Summer Institute
of Linguistics). Charles served in a variety of administrative roles in PNG, including several years as the
Chairman of the SIL PNG Job Evaluation and Wage Review Committee and on the SIL PNG Executive
Committee.
During their 15 years of service in PNG, Bible translation work was completed in 67 languages and over
100 additional Bible translation projects were started. Today, almost 180 language communities,
representing 1.8 million people in PNG have access to the Script