<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Campbells on Mission]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campbells on Mission]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:21:14 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.campbellsonmission.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[What Does a Bible Cost?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine your church deciding to sponsor the translation of an entire book of the Bible for a community that doesn't have a single word of Scripture in their own language. Churches all over the country have started doing this through a program called Adopt-a-Verse, and it’s not as hard as you think. Before we talk about that, let’s look at what Bible translation costs. In the Bible translation world, the standard benchmark for funding field projects is $35 per verse. When you do the math, that...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/what-does-a-bible-cost</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a14bb51f3bc0136e51bb4ca</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:31:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/040c18_edc261c6d3054dfd964c0c4410ee39ac~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Led by the Spirit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Happy Pentecost! This weekend, we marked one of the most pivotal moments in the Bible. We celebrated the arrival of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Before He went to the cross, Jesus promised that He would not leave us as orphans. He died, rose again, and ascended so that the Holy Spirit could come and live inside us. Because of Christ’s finished work, we now have the very same power that raised Him from the dead living in our actual bodies. To understand what this means practically, let's look...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/led-by-the-spirit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a14d06f183a32d20e31f1fe</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 23:50:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/040c18_358ed64ebcf84d4295c83360ba04c68b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Liturgy for Adoption]]></title><description><![CDATA[As you may have already heard, we've been matched with a brother and sister in Liberia! We're feeling a full spectrum of things - primarily humbled by this opportunity, curious how this will all pan out, and confident in our faithful God! Jack wrote more about the "nuts and bolts" of this step in the adoption process in the last blog. As I've been sorting through my thoughts and reading book after book about adoption, I found it helpful to process through the writing of a liturgy. This is the...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/a-liturgy-for-adoption</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a01e4f3160bfc81f64fba03</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 14:35:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6e3164_4df268c866584eabae851dcbda35671f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've Been Matched!]]></title><description><![CDATA[We have great news to share on the adoption front. We have officially been matched with a sibling group in Liberia! Last week, we received a referral of a brother and sister pair that have been awaiting adoption in the transition home for 4 years. We prayed about it and talked with family and happily accepted this referral. This is the step we've been waiting for! After our home study was completed, we moved on to what's called the Dossier. This prepared a folder of information about us and...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/we-ve-been-matched</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e8b179ab5395dde6057cc4</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:27:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/040c18_d07f511463644651939d8832b631d2ca~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then Immediately...]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've often wanted to capture a "Day in the Life" of our home, but I always struggle to define what a normal day looks like for us! Recently, our life has felt like reading the book of Mark ("And immediately, this happened. Then immediately, that happened") or listening to an audiobook on 2x speed. With little more than a night's sleep between each activity, we're nearing the end of a really full and relationally rich few weeks. On March 20, two ladies who work in TCK care with SIL came to...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/then-immediately</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dd47a98946a7ddf46f3cf6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:53:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6e3164_d8a27181b1aa41509aa7bd55a4425e67~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of Our Own]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was recently chosen to be featured in the Wycliffe staff newsletter, in a section called “One of our Own”. A short article summing up our story was written to share with Wycliffe staff serving in the states and abroad. This week, I wanted to just share that article with you. It helps to share a little of our story from an outside perspective, and I love that it highlighted how encouraged we are by the church in West Africa. God is doing some amazing things in this part of the world and we...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/one-of-our-own</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cabc93e7de3cb006077f6f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:15:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6e3164_ee6c1b0a82c240da8dd8e90ad895963a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we've been up to lately...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello friends and family!  Occasional thunderstorms overnight during the past few weeks signal that we’re soon heading into a rainier season here in Abidjan. Because we’re on the coast, it’s quite humid and tropical year-round, but we’re learning to feel the differences in seasons. The kids wish they could be experiencing some of the snow and ice that our families have this winter, but I’m also really glad to be dodging the crazy flu season we’re hearing about! Our papaya tree in the back...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/what-we-ve-been-up-to-lately</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b57c97186604e8e10da328</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:51:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6e3164_351e3d46f3e745bc95ef1f567c7eef7c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Origins of Vision 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just over 25 years ago, Wycliffe set a goal to have a translation project started in every language that needed one by the year 2025. It was called Vision 2025. But this was not just a goal set at random or another goal in a large list. This target really sparked something in the Bible translation movement and is a huge part of what drove the movement to where it is today. While technically we did not achieve this goal (there are still about 600 language projects that need to get started),...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/the-origins-of-vision-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a61bd22b1318a24853773f</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:29:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/rNCOyghrtMA?si=cnXAMk3u-GJMEKU0" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[God at Work in 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week, our update is coming from a more global perspective. We love to share with you what God is doing in Côte d'Ivoire and in the small circles that we get to be a part of here. But there is some really exciting work being done all over the world. Here's a message from our Wycliffe President and his wife at the beginning of the year, sharing some of the ways we've seen God at work around the globe. And how the work of Bible translation is progressing in nearly half of the world's...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/god-at-work-in-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6994274d6df156fdbe9f4011</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:36:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/-w_ss5R2cUY?si=hJMGbDkFqYzp4r3r" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ouaninou]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello friends and family! Thank you so much for your prayers for our family and our trip “out west” at the end of January! We have so many stories to tell and pictures to show. Be sure to stick around to the end of the blog post to see Titus' video! A bit of context for the trip: As the linguistics coordinator for Côte d’Ivoire, Jack works with all of SIL’s current Bible translation projects at the level of linguistics. So, any time they encounter problems with their orthography (writing...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/ouaninou</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69810bdf447c2ea3d2851360</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:21:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6e3164_c19ec77421004215aea2785fa3b16392~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer Requests]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello friends and family!  Just a quick note of updates and prayer requests this week. We have a lot going on!  We leave early tomorrow morning for a 12-ish hour drive to a village in the northwest of Côte d’Ivoire. Jack, along with his team of linguists, will be working with a group of national translators to work out some difficulties they’re having with marking tone in their written language. (It’s significantly more complicated than what I’m able to describe!) The kids and I are packing...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/prayer-requests-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696f4adf892cb3def49375b4</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:38:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6e3164_d7a972f61ef849d69c9fd8fb08ae6272~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_750,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presence]]></title><description><![CDATA[A common theme for me throughout this past month has been presence . With Christmas having just passed, we’ve been meditating on the beauty of Immanuel, God WITH us.  How incredible that He stepped down in humility to rescue us. And, through His Spirit, He is just as present with us now.  We’ve felt the blessing of presence  through my parents - they planned at the last minute to fly across the ocean and spend Christmas with our family! Jack and I had two weeks’ notice, but the kids had no...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/presence</link><guid isPermaLink="false">695c30feef35928416b0a111</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:23:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6e3164_600abeb7fa8b40229dc3d995babe08d6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promises Fulfilled]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every year, our English-speaking community gets together for an annual Christmas Carol Sing! This is special because we don't really sing Christmas carols as we know them in the Ivorian culture. So we take a couple hours during the holiday season to sing out these familiar songs and enjoy some cookies together. It feels just like home...but about 80 degrees warmer. This year, the song "Angels from the Realms of Glory" stood out to me as we sang. Of course it sings of Jesus and how the angels...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/promises-fulfilled</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6949d350d4fba6e402a52494</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:33:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/040c18_b8b86f5d9da2413fa1fdc2fcf9c4c1e6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Thanksgiving and Malian History]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the weather cools off in the states and I see people’s pictures of SNOW already, we’re enjoying our rising temperatures and sunnier days!  We had our annual expat Thanksgiving and invited friends from all over the place - these expats are all living away from their passport countries as they work as missionaries, international school teachers, and business men and women. We had families from the States, the UK, France, Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Portugal, Korea, the Netherlands, India,...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/american-thanksgiving-and-malian-history</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69371a670321a3f7e07fc57a</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:52:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6e3164_86e1309382b045029c1994bf0468e75b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Six-Six Taxi]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you were to visit us here in Côte d’Ivoire, you would immediately notice the bright yellow taxis that seem to be everywhere in our part of Abidjan. They're a practical, affordable, and distinctly Ivorian mode of transport. They're called “Wôro-Wôros”  and they can tell us a lot about how we think, how we calculate value, and why having the Bible in your truest, most natural language is non-negotiable. Some have said, "If you want to know someone's mother tongue, ask them to count...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/the-six-six-taxi</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69245e5c8c513b4f517d0d96</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:36:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/040c18_efb93c898dc941ba8eee947dcf91bad9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Community]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello friends and family!  Thank you so much for keeping up with us, for reading our blogs, and for supporting us financially and through prayer. We are humbled by the faithful team of partners we have standing with us in this work of getting Scripture into the heart languages of people in Côte d'Ivoire!  Our schedule has been light these past few weeks, as we weren’t sure how the elections would go. Thank you so much for praying for peace during elections and for your prayers for our renewed...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/sweet-community</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69122d6cf62ae997b5c83046</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:41:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6e3164_aefd9d16c44a4405ba36c6e0caae0cf9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the A and the Z]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sounds a little funny doesn't it? But why? As Bible translators, we are constantly grappling with the delicate balance between conveying the original meaning of a text and ensuring its resonance with a contemporary audience. It's a fascinating challenge, and sometimes, the most seemingly straightforward words carry the deepest complexities. For example, "Alpha and Omega". Why does that sound fine to us, but "A and Z" (a practical translation) sounds weird? In the New Testament, particularly...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/i-am-the-a-and-the-z</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68f9fec0f03ec730b1e091de</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:04:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/040c18_44fc7acb8aef48deb5cdbfe17a8a60b9~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope for Shaky Days]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many things have felt out of our control lately.  We’ve received news of friends who have had medical emergencies and car accidents in the States. We’ve had another rejection from the ministry of foreign affairs; this time it was our applications to renew our ID cards. We got a taste of what’s to come in the election season over the past weekend when a protest not far from our neighborhood caused us to stay home and cancel all our plans. We sat for days in the US embassy and the Ivoirian...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/hope-for-shaky-days</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68ed2d14862f4431b1b8eb35</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 19:17:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6e3164_e669014f098a4d2b9b614d8bf35f262d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running for His Siblings]]></title><description><![CDATA[This weekend Titus completed a two-hour run to raise money for our adoption. This run has been over 7 weeks in the making! As we were...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/running-for-his-siblings</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68dae3a5623250c45f5f32eb</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 23:30:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/040c18_5b4aada5bb1c4cf1b880ac7dc4d23724~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coffee (Up)Date]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello friend! I'm curious if you'd be interested in getting together for a coffee date here in the blog? I'll make a latte and you can...]]></description><link>https://www.campbellsonmission.com/post/coffee-up-date</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68c596a25faff3270f880e7e</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:55:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6e3164_db9e3f4c7bc24f7aa77605bf918ef955~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lindsay</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>