Jock joined the Wycliffe Board while he was the Dean of Studies at Eastwest College of Inter-cultural Studies, and continued through his time as the NZ Leader of WEC Aotearoa New Zealand. Jock has a background in law and accounting, and in pastoral and mission leadership. Jock and his wife Cathy have eight adult children and a growing tribe of grandies.

Kevin and Jillian joined Wycliffe NZ in their mid-50s, after serving in pastoral ministry around NZ for many years. In 2018, they arrived at the Mara Cluster Project in Musoma, North-West Tanzania, to serve as support workers for a team translating eight New Testaments simultaneously. Sadly, the rapid worldwide spread of Covid19 in March 2020 caused their repatriation to NZ (New Plymouth). Since their return to NZ, Jillian has been able to continue to serve the Mara Project remotely as part of the Linguistics Department, and has trained as a typesetter, working with other projects in East Africa. Meanwhile, Kevin has held several roles in the Wycliffe support office and as of March 2026, stepped in as interim Director while the Board search for a new Executive Director.

Raised a ‘pastor’s kid’ (including six years in PNG) Andrew is a director and Notary Public at Grayson Clements (Lawyers). He acts for business, charitable, and private wealth clients domestically and internationally. Andrew specialises in structural design, with a focus on trusts and succession. He is a past New Zealand editorial advisor to the British Trusts and Trustees Law Journal and a full member (TEP) of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners.

Pastor Ofa grew up in Tonga in a family of 11 children. While interpreting at an open air meeting for the speaker, God spoke to his heart and he came to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Ofa studied in Fiji for three years and met and married Mary, his wife. They returned to Tonga and until 2011 served the Lord as a Pastor there. In 2011 Ofa migrated with his family to NZ and currently serves as Pastor of Amatakiloa Gospel Church in Mangere. Ofa served for two years on the Board of BTO Tonga from its inception in 2011. In 2013 Ofa joined the Wycliffe NZ Board.

Wayne was born and bred in Auckland, whilst Caryl was born in Hawera and raised in Auckland. After completing his BCom at Auckland University, Wayne worked in the business world, primarily in a European multi- national for 24 years, as a finance director in 1981 and became the director for New Zealand in 2000. Caryl qualified and worked as a librarian before leaving to be a homemaker when their first child was born. They have eight children—Jeremy and his wife Dee Anne, Callum and his wife Olivia, Maryanne and her husband Carmilo, and Asher and his wife Danielle. They are also joyful grandparents. After many years of involvement in missions with their church, the Lord called them to serve with Wycliffe in 2003, Wayne as the Director and Caryl as the Prayer Coordinator and then in Member Care. As of May 2018, Caryl retired. Wayne stepped down from the Director’s position in 2016 to become an Associate Director. In 2021 he moved away from that to serve as a financial advisor and Board Member for Wycliffe.

Dannielle joined the Wycliffe Board in 2021. Based in Christchurch, Dannielle and her family attend Emmett Street Community Church. She works as a solicitor at a local firm.

Robin and Delwyn met at Canterbury University where they were studying linguistics and music respectively. After completing studies at BCNZ in Christchurch and then Auckland, and SPSIL in Featherston and Melbourne, they began to work in Southeast Asia in 1987. In June 1989 they were assigned as the translation team for the Tabulahan language and the New Testament was dedicated in 2004. Delwyn has been serving on the Wycliffe NZ Board since 2008. The McKenzies consider Christchurch home, though four of them were born elsewhere.

Eunice and Barry served with OMF in Malaysia from 1982-1994, managing the OMF Centre in Kuala Lumpur for two years before taking up a leadership role at Chefoo School, an OMF-run school for missionary children. Upon return to New Zealand, Barry continued his role as the OMF Third Culture Kids adviser, alongside ESOL teaching at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (now ARA), while Eunice worked with international students, more latterly students from the US, studying at the University of Canterbury. Eunice has been a member of the Wycliffe NZ Board since 2016, bringing together her love of both linguistics and the Bible.

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