Rev. H. Syvelle Phillips founded Evangel Bible Translators in 1976 at the urging of William Cameron Townsend, the founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators. At that time, he saw a need for Bible translators in specific areas that Wycliffe was then unable to fulfill. Pastor Phillips, having felt the call of world missions on his life for many years, knew this was what God had called him to do and set out to start EBT.

For nearly 40 years, EBT’s main focus has been to provide the Holy Scriptures for people in their own language. In recent years, our emphasis has been on equipping native-tongue speakers to translate the Bible, as opposed to funding Westerners to do this work. In addition to Bible translation, we enable our missionaries to reach out to their communities. As God opens the doors for evangelism, church planting, and relief and development work, we will encourage our missionaries to use the opportunities that God puts before them to meet the needs of people around the globe.

Furthermore, EBT sends out missionaries who do not work in the area of Bible translation. This is an area that is a growing aspect of our outreach as we seek to broaden our work in the world. EBT translators work to fulfill the Great Commission through Bible translation, evangelism, church planting and showing the compassion of Jesus Christ.

Evangel Bible Translation Center, Nagaland, India