Interesting while my family was attending Christian Missionary Alliance one of the members decided God was calling her to mission work..at 65yrs.old! Her name was “Lucy”....she went thru all the training with Wycliffe and off she went!......I was so moved by her willingness and stamina to undertake that challenge at that time of her life.
As to affiliations, I sponsored by Wycliffe. I consider that I am part of the larger Bible translation team here although I am not assigned to a specific language project and only work with missionary kids. I don’t recall whether New Tribes has an association with Wycliffe on an official level.
But, when people get here our alphabet affiliations don’t seem to matter. We pray for each other and run errands for and with each other. Our school has students from all the groups here and we work together to advance God’s kingdom. I am glad Lucy joined the Wycliffe team. We have a goal of having a language translation project started for every language that needs one by the year 2025. As for Lucy being 65, well, ya’ gotta die somewhere! What do you want to be doing when you do die? (But cross-cultural adjustment does get harder, the older you are)