Our Training Team
Rejoice Moses is a media specialist with SIL Nigeria. Her work involves training others, as well as dubbing biblical films, building apps, audio recording, and creating other content in local languages. She holds a bachelor’s degree in linguistics from the University of Jos, Nigeria. She loves experimenting with food, despite being a picky eater and finds peace growing a garden. She loves to travel as it allows her meet people and learn from them.
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​Audio Production
Andreas Ernst is an SIL media and SE consultant. He is passionate about contextualized media such as entertainment-education, which draws on people’s testimonies to make the Scriptures come alive. After growing up and completing high school in Cameroon, he taught primary school in Switzerland. Andreas studied contextualized theology at Redcliffe College in the U.K. and has an MA in literacy program development from Gloucestershire University. He is based in Cameroon and serves as the IMS Training Director.
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Audio Production
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Video Production
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Facilitating Media
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Role of Media in Ministry & Holistic Development
John Gieske is a Vernacular Media Consultant who lives in Senegal with his wife, Sarah, and their three children. He has a B.A. in global mass communications and a decade of experience on the field, especially in audio recording and production. He often has the privilege of accompanying audiovisual projects from the early planning stages all of the way through to distribution and promotion. John is passionate about training others and especially wants to see local believers producing audiovisual scripture content on their smartphones.
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Audio Production
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App building foundations
Neil Zubot is an SIL app development specialist. He has a BA in Applied Linguistics and has been with Wycliffe / SIL since 2006.
His motivation for app building comes from a longing to see God’s life-giving Word made known throughout the earth. He started developing apps in 2015 and it is the creative and problem solving elements of building apps that he enjoys the most.
Neil is a Canadian, married to an Austrian and has three children. After seven years of serving in Africa (CAR and Cameroon), he and his family now live in Austria, where he builds apps for languages in Cameroon and beyond.
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App building foundations
After 14 years as a software developer, Andrew Shafe and his family joined Wycliffe Bible Translators in 2003.
After language learning in France, the family served for 12 years with SIL in Senegal, where Andrew managed the computer department and then took on the role of digital media coordinator.
His roles included app and website development, archiving and digital media strategy. After returning to the US in 2018, Andrew and his wife, Cathy, settled in central Oregon.
Andrew now splits his time equally between being a member care coordinator for Wycliffe USA and working for SIL Francophone Area as an app builder specialist. Along with that role, he serves on the global app builder support, SAB assist and Scripture Earth admin teams.
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His heart is that God’s Word can be made available in the languages and media that best serve the needs of people worldwide and result in transformed lives, for God’s glory.
Sarah Jane Capper is an ethnoarts and media specialist for SIL in West Africa. Her work involves training others, as well as making apps, websites, audio recordings, and other content in local languages. Her prior experience is in marketing and communications. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and art history from Syracuse University. She is also completing a master’s degree in ethnoarts through Dallas International University.
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Audio Production
Cathy Miedes
Bio coming soon.
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coming soon