Since Elisè Grant's early teen years, God has been developing within her a great passion for foreign languages and cultures. It is this passion that initially led her to pursue a career as a Modern Languages teacher to intermediate and high school aged children and which is now drawing her to work as a missionary in Africa, the land of her dreams. God has placed a special love in Elisè's heart for the African people and has given her a deep desire to contribute to language projects that seek to bring the gospel to as many African people groups as possible in their own mother tongue.

Elisè became a member of Wycliffe Bible Translators in 2003. In 2005, she accepted an assignment to work in Cameroon as a linguist/translator. To prepare for this role she first completed an internship assignment in the country working as Housing Coordinator for the Cameroon branch as well as working in the Training Department. These roles together gave her the opportunity both to get acquainted with the branch and all its members working in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea as well as to allow her to begin to apply her acquired skills in linguistics and translation.

At the end of September, 2006, Elisè finished her internship assignment and officially began her role as Linguist/Translation Worker. She has been assigned to study a group of related languages called the Ndowe language cluster which extends across the border between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. For the first couple of years of her new assignment she will spend the majority of her time working on language and culture learning in the Ndowe cluster. She will then be ready to write up formal linguistic analyses of some of the languages and/or dialects in that cluster and to start translation work. She will be equipped to train local people to participate in the translation work as well, and will partner with other teams and organizations to promote literacy and Scripture use throughout the language community and throughout Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.

Elisè Grant
Box 914
Cache Creek, BC
V0K 1H0

Elisè Grant
SIL
B.P. 1299,
Yaoundé, Cameroon.