Last Updated on Monday, 16 February 2009 13:21

Marty Lange

Grew up in Juneau, Alaska

Graduated from Biola University 1989 - BA in Communications emphasizing Radio and TV production

Serving Wycliffe Bible Translators since 1991 as an audio recordist and A/V consultant. Specializing in training nationals who are working in media in the minority languages with whom Wycliffe is working.

Marty also serves as the webmaster for Ordinary.org, narizdigital.com, narizvideo.com, aidiaperu.org and atekperu.org, and as a consultant for jawcaperu.org.

Karen Lange

Grew up in Juneau, Alaska

Graduated from Moody Bible Institute 1991 - BA in Sacred Music

In addition to helping Marty with Vernacular Media issues, Karen teaches Jr. High and Sr. High Choir at Lima International Christian School.  When she can, she also loves to teach music theory, and music appreciation to missionary children.

We have four children: Heather, Kara, Summer and Nathan.

A brief history:

While serving as a short-term missionary in Spain in 1984, Marty and a group of Spanish teenagers passed an evangelistic tent meeting. One of the kids commented "I'd never be caught dead in there! Let's go home and watch TV." This led Marty to believe that media would be a critical tool for reaching people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The media would have to be culturally appropriate and Biblically accurate, speaking God's incomparable truth directly to the heart of the listeners.

The Langes are now working in Lima, Peru with the Summer Institute of Linguistics. They serve as the Vernacular Media Specialists. They train Quechua Christians produce media in the vernacular, the mother tongue. The media may be anything from cassettes and radio programs to videos and DVDs. These media introduce non-readers to the Scriptures in their own language and provide "heart access" to those who will never learn to read.

The main focus of their work is equipping and enabling Quechuas to produce their own Scripture-based media through training. They are coordinating training courses to teach the Quechuas how to create their own radio programs, videos, cassettes and promote the Scriptures.