Jacob A LoewenJacob Loewen's journey in missions began pretty well at his birth in Russia in 1922. He attended the Missionary Medical Institute in Toronto, Canada, in 1942-1943 to learn missionary medicine. He also attended the Summer Institute of Linguistics (Wyciffe Bible Translators) in Briercrest, Saskatchewan.
In 1979-1984 he served as translation consultant in West Africa, responsible for Ghana, Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Togo. By the time Loewen retired in 1984, he had worked with several hundred different languages. Read More Read Less