Janet and Terry Borchard work in California and Papua New Guinea with the Ipili Bible Translation Project. Ipili is spoken by approximately 15,000 people in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Terry came to Papua New Guinea as an evangelistic missionary after graduating from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis in 1969. He began working on the Ipili translation in 1976. He also serves as a senior translation consultant helping others to improve their translations.
Janet (Kunkel) Borchard has been a missionary with Lutheran Bible Translators since 1982. From 1983-1994 she worked with the Christians at Taos Pueblo, New Mexico on Bible translation. Then from 1996-1997 she worked with the Dhimba Bible Translation Project in the country of Namibia in southern Africa. After Janet and Terry were married in August 1998, she joined him in the Ipili translation project. She also helps train Papua New Guineans in Bible translation skills.
The Borchards ask for prayer as they develop support materials for the Ipili New Testament which Terry has completed. Pray for safety, wisdom, strength, and perseverance. Pray with them that many Ipili people will be a part of that great multitude in heaven, where they, along with Taos Pueblo and Dhimba people, will all praise God together.
