Former congressman named leader of bible translation business

Steve Russell's orientation in a JAARS Pilatus PC–6 Porter in November. Photo courtesy of Steve Russell.

 

He is a former Oklahoma Congressman and Army officer who helped capture Saddam Hussein in Iraq but now Steve Russell has a different title.

He is CEO of JAARS, a global organization that has a mandate to make Bible translation and language development possible, even in the most remote and difficult places on Earth.

The group enables that vision through pilot training and mission aviation services, remote technology and communications support, and off-the-grid logistical solutions that help make translation possible.

Russell became the first leader of JAARS in its 75 years from outside the Bible translation movement reported the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.

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