She soon voiced her intentions to study linguistics at SIL and then join Wycliffe to become a Bible
translator. Her friends laughed. She seemed such an unlikely candidate for mission work. However, God
had called her and she was willing to go. However, she first needed to prepare to go.
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from
every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They
were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in
a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!
Revelation 7:9-10 (NIV)
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