Thanks to all those who joined in celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Dallas International University. Together with several hundred people, we remembered how God has faithfully blessed us and shared our vision for the future, asking for his blessing and the prayers of his people. We are also grateful for the generous gifts received that…
Dallas International University is excited to announce full funding of the Eduard Alekseyev Endowed Scholarship for World Arts! Thanks to the generosity of people like you $30,000 has been raised. This $30,000 will be doubled by the donors who issued the matching challenge, giving a total of $60,000 in the endowment. The Alekseyev Scholarship provides…
At fourteen, when Ryan began to follow Christ, he experienced God’s call to cross-cultural service. As undergraduates at Dallas Baptist University (DBU), he and his wife, Crystal, heard David Ross, Dallas International’s first president, speak about his cross-cultural experiences and met him afterward. As a result, Crystal and Ryan eventually completed a minor in Applied…
As an elementary school teacher in California, Gretchen gradually realized that she had unused language gifts and that she didn’t belong in her teachers’ community anymore, where a focus on salaries over students reigned. After a trip to Guatemala and a Wycliffe workshop, Gretchen began to think, “Maybe God wants me to leave this wealthy…
Ever since she was a child, Ann had wanted to work cross-culturally. She was especially impacted by her aunt and uncle, who worked cross-culturally, and by her church, which is supportive of cross-cultural ministry. Later, Ann went on to graduate with her linguistics B.A. from the University of California. Since Ann had some Brazilian friends…
God gave Lynette a heart for nonbelievers and languages, even from an early age. Later, as a high school student, she remembered hearing about Bible translation from missionaries at her church, then thought of a fellow student who was an atheist. “My heart broke for him,” she recalled. “I knew then that I wanted to…
Paul Hefft grew up as the son of cross-cultural workers in Panama. After three years as a pastor in Illinois, God called him and his wife, Melissa, away from their “reached” ministry field to serve Bibleless people groups. Consequently, they joined Wycliffe, started Dallas International training, and graduated in 2009 with certificates in Applied Linguistics.…
Having grown up in Brazil as the children of missionaries, Tim Bachmann and his siblings eventually decided to follow in their parents’ footsteps. Responding to God’s leading, Tim studied at Word of Life Seminary in Brazil. After completing seminary and marrying Von, a Brazilian he met there, Tim worked with his family in northeastern Brazil…