michael and lynette wilson

Michael and Lynette are serving with Wycliffe Bible Translators. After college, Lynette joined Wycliffe and earned a masters degree in linguistics.  She began her first Wycliffe assignment as an associate instructor training other missionaries in the linguistic principles necessary for Bible translation.  Michael became interested in missions during college and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mission aviation. They were married in 2012.

In 2014, Michael joined Wycliffe while Lynette finished her teaching responsibilities.  After further training and partnership development, their overseas assignment in Australia began in September, 2015.  They began with a year of learning Yol?u Matha languages spoken in some of the remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.  Since then, Lynette has been helping Yol?u Aboriginal Bible translators edit and check their translations of the Gospel of Mark.  Michael serves in the translation processas a software engineer.