“A Desire to Give Back”

“A Desire to Give Back”

If you were to ask Rebecca Chandler Leege where she was born, she might just answer, “The United States.” This non-specificity is not because she doesn’t know the city or town of her birth, but because she has lived in so many countries and considers herself a citizen of the world, more than of any one country—so regional specifics feel a little less important. While this could be understood as the natural result of her highly mobile early life in a missionary family, it doesn’t diminish the value that such a perspective brings to her current role as the newest member of the SIL LEAD Board of Directors…

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A Place Without a Map

A Place Without a Map

Anyone born into a larger family can find it difficult to establish an individual identity. But for Mark Taylor—who grew up with two brothers and seven sisters—the task might very well have been overwhelming if he hadn’t known from an early age what he wanted (and seemed naturally gifted) to do.

When Mark was in sixth grade and his parents founded Tyndale House Publishers out of their home, he dove right in. The company had just one product in that first year—Living Letters, which was a paraphrase of the New Testament epistles. Mark’s dad, Kenneth Taylor, had created the paraphrase that would eventually be published as The Living Bible…

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