Who I'm Goin' With

I thought I might introduce you to the two folks I get to go to PNG with.
They are currently my prof.'s in my Intercultural Communications class.
There area of expertise is linguistics and anthropology especially as it applies to missions, as i said in earlier posts, I will be doing lots of observing from these two and others.



Kathy Bruce has served with Wycliffe Bible Translators since 1967. Her roles with Wycliffe have included Bible translation in Papua New Guinea (1971-84), International Training Consultant, and Instructor in Pre-Field and In-Service Training Courses. Since 1999, Dr. Bruce has also served as Associate Professor of Bible Translation with the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (GIAL) in Dallas. Previous teaching roles include Associate Professor of Missions and Anthropology at Christian Heritage College in San Diego. Dr. Bruce has as Master of Arts in Social Science from Azusa Pacific University and a Doctor of Missiology from Biola University. She and her husband, Les, live in Duncanville, Texas, and have three sons.

Doctorate of Missiology, 1992. Biola University; M.A. in Social Science, Human Resource Leadership, 1986. Azusa University; B.A. in Biblical Education, 1966. Columbia Bible College, Summer Institutes of Linguistics, University of Oklahoma, 1966-67. Various courses, no degree, 1965. Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Canberra (Australia) Teacher Training College; Jerusalem (Israel) University College

and the second person is...


Since 2000, Les Bruce has served as Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (GIAL) in Dallas. Dr. Bruce began his career as a field linguist and Bible translator with the Alamblak people of Papua New Guinea. He has extensive experience as a linguistics professor, including Associate Professor at Biola University (1985-1988), and visiting and adjunct teaching positions at institutions of higher education in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the South Pacific. Dr. Bruce has as Master of Arts in Biblical Education from Columbia Bible College–School of World Missions and a Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics from The Australian National University. He and his wife, Kathy, live in Duncanville, Texas, and have three sons.

B.A., John Brown University, 1967; M.A., Columbia Bible College, 1968; Ph.D., The Australian National University, 1979