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Hugh Steven-Meet Greg’s Father-in-Law-Retired Missionary with Wickliffe Bible Translators

On today’s episode, we meet retired missionary with Wickliffe Bible Translators Hugh Steven, Greg’s father-in-law.

It’s a Monday, and I am Greg Asimakoupoulos. I am working on today’s edition of My Rhymes and Reasons. I’m here with my father-in-law, Hugh Steven, a retired missionary with Wickliffe Bible Translators. We’ve been reminiscing about the founder of Wickliffe, William Cameron Townsend, known to those who worked with him as Uncle Cam. You know this is the day after Groundhog’s Day. It is the 3rd of February, and many wondered if Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow yesterday on Groundhog’s Day today.

I want to talk about a man who cast his shadow on your life, Uncle Cam William Cameron Townsend. How did he begin to influence your life as a young missionary?

Well, my wife Norma and I joined Wickliff. It was 1956, I think, 56 indeed. We had not met him then, but subsequently, we came to meet him and realized that he greatly influenced all the members of Wickliff for his kindness, unusual leadership qualities, and vision. So we met him and began to realize that we were in the company of an extraordinary person. A man with an amazing Faith!

They began the Wickliff Missionary School with just two students in a farmhouse in Arkansas. It was a battered old chicken coop that they had renovated, but he had this incredible vision. He had been in Guatemala as an 18-year-old. You can listen to the rest of Greg’s father-in-law’s story in the video above.

If you missed our last My Rhymes and Reasons with Greg, you can go here.

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