We are Rich and Maya Rudowske, missionaries with Lutheran Bible Translators and Christians who want to be used by God in whatever way He chooses.  We are a team along with our children in serving wherever God places us.  Prior to missionary service, Rich was a pastor in Dayton Ohio, and, before that, a financial analyst in Ann Arbor Michigan.  Maya is the household manager and partner in every mission endeavour.

We work in the ministry of Bible translation - helping bring people to faith in Jesus Christ by making the word of God available in the language that speaks to their heart.  It is a ministry of passion for the word of God and precision in linguistic analysis.

We plan to depart for our first three year term in mid-July 2009.

We will be assigned to Botswana where we will work with speakers of Shekgalagadi, one of seven or eight languages spoken in western Botswana.  We will work in language development and Bible translation in a project that is estimated to take twelve years to complete.

The Lord has uniquely gifted us both as a couple and as a family to go and help people from the indigenous churches in Africa develop scriptures in their heart languages so that sustainable Christian thought, community, and life is available to them.