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Bruce Smith

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Jan and I grew up in suburban Chicago, in committed Christian families. My international ministry experience started when I skipped my high school graduation to help build a church in rural northwest Guatemala with Teen Missions International. That experience convinced me to pursue academic preparation for a career in missions. At LeTourneau College I majored in Missions and Aviation. After graduation Jan and I volunteered with Mission Aviation Fellowship for a summer to learn more about their work. During the next six years as I built experience in aviation, Jan built experience as a mom to our two daughters—Abby and Lindsey.

The month after Lindsey was born we applied to join Mission Aviation Fellowship. Our first overseas assignment in Suriname, South America was abbreviated due to the outbreak of a civil war. We were transferred from Suriname to Haiti where I served as pilot, mechanic, and program manager for the MAF flight operation for four years. After our first term I was asked by MAF to provide executive leadership for a subsidiary organization in California. After completing that assignment, I served as MAF’s Chief Operating Officer for six years. At that time MAF had ~250 families serving in 22 countries.

In February 2000 I was invited to be the President/CEO of Wycliffe Associates, a service organization supporting Bible translation globally. During twenty years of service we expanded our financial, personnel, technical, and translation training support to 108 countries. We directly trained and equipped churches in more than 1200 languages to translate and steward God’s Word for themselves, with around 400 of these languages completing their New Testament translations during a six year period.

My continuing ministry vision is to serve and support churches in their translation, stewardship, and sowing God’s Word in the languages of their communities. My five-year goal is to creatively reduce the cost of Bible translation to the point where churches in every language can translate and steward God’s Word sustainably without dependence on external subsidies.

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To come alongside Christian leaders around the world.

Methodology

  • We serve as catalysts, without personal or institutional agendas.

  • We stay only as long as needed and welcome.

  • We view all our work as spiritual activity with eternal significance.

  • We promote effective and Godly stewardship of resources as a model for business and ministry.

  • We practice the accountability of planning and evaluating our work, and teach others to do the same.

Financial Information

Financial accountability is important to Paraclete.  We have been members of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) since 1998.  Our Financial Statements were audited for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 by Capin Crouse, LLP.  Paraclete is registered for charitable solicitation in all states that require it.

2020 Financial Summary

Revenues
Cash Donations
$3,824,681
Other Revenue
$14,174
Total Revenue
$3,838,855
Expenses
Program
$2,390,896
Administrative
$324,434
FundRaising
$258,024
Total Expenses
$2,973,354

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Information We Collect

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  • Your preference for which ministry your donation will be applied;
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How We Use Your Information

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Please tell Paraclete Mission Group as soon as any of your contact details change so that records can be kept up to date.

We will take reasonable steps to correct any of your information, which is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.

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Statement of Faith

We believe the Bible to be the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.

We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory.

We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, they that are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.

We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

equal opportunity employment

It is the policy of Paraclete Mission Group not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability in admission and access to, or treatment or employment in its program or activities. As a religious institution, Paraclete is permitted and reserves the right to prefer employees or prospective employees on the basis of religion.