Lutheran bible translators

Rob and Eshinee Veith

Rob and Eshinee are currently working on a project to create audio versions of two complete Bibles (Otjiherero and Oshindonga) and two complete New Testaments (Khoekhoegowab and Dhimba). These four languages represent significant minority languages in Namibia - close to a million speakers all together!

Rob - Vernacular Media Specialist
Eshinee - Translation Advisor

ELCA missionaries

The Rev. Christa von Zychlin and Rev. Wayne Nieminen (Hong Kong/China)

Wayne teaches practical theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary of Hong Kong, including a variety of counseling courses on marriage, crisis, youth, pastoral, addiction and domestic violence.  His students are from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia.  

Christa teaches part-time in the area of pastoral formation and evangelical witness at the Seminary.  She also teaches English and Bible stories to 1st and 2nd graders in a Hong Kong primary school.  Wayne and Christa have three sons, Soren, Torsten and Eric.