{"id":9190,"date":"2026-06-02T12:21:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canil.ca\/wordpress\/?post_type=u_member&p=9190"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:21:38","slug":"andy-faust","status":"publish","type":"u_member","link":"https:\/\/www.canil.ca\/wordpress\/u_member\/andy-faust\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Faust"},"content":{"rendered":"
Since the Fall 2024 term Andy has been the instructor for the introductory course in sociolinguistics at CanIL. He considers it a privilege to help train others to serve language communities worldwide.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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After a decade in the field of English language teaching, Andy joined Wycliffe Bible Translators of Canada in 1999. His first\u00a0 assignment was in the country of Uzbekistan, where for two years he helped develop an English learner\u2019s dictionary. While there he met his wife Mary Ellen and they married in 2001. Andy began studies at CanIL in 2003, graduating from Trinity Western University in 2006 with a Master's of Applied Linguistics and Exegesis. With his wife and two young children Andy then <\/span><\/span>moved to Russia and the following year to Kyrgyzstan to serve in a Scripture translation project that was already in progress. That team published a full Bible in 2016. Andy was subsequently part of another translation project in Central Asia, while also being involved with<\/span><\/span> communications related to work in that region and in the Russian Federation. Since 2009 Andy has lived in the Vancouver area.<\/div>\n
\nAndy's favourite recreational activity is pickleball, both for the physical movement and the diversity of people he meets there. He also enjoys trying to guess the languages that he overhears while grocery shopping without making it obvious that he's eavesdropping!<\/div>\n

Education<\/h2>\n

2006. Master of Applied Linguistics and Exegesis. Trinity Western University\/ACTS Seminaries, Langley, British Columbia.<\/p>\n

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1989. Diploma in Postsecondary Education (concentration in Teaching English as a Second Language). University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.<\/p>\n

1987. Bachelor of Arts (General) with Great Distinction. Camrose Lutheran College (now University of Alberta Augustana Campus),
\nCamrose, Alberta.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Teaches<\/h2>\n

LING 210\/SOCI 220\/ANTH 220 Language & Society (Trinity Western University)
\nLING 2113\/SOCI 2723 Language and Society (Tyndale University)<\/p>\n

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Publications<\/h2>\n

Exegetical adviser for Muqaddas kitob<\/em> (\u2018Holy book\u2019 \u2013 the Bible in Northern Uzbek). 2016. Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Bible Society of Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n

Contributing editor of Ingliz tilingizni mukammallashtiring: Expand Your English<\/em> (English-Uzbek learner\u2019s dictionary). 2004. Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Central Asian Free Exchange.<\/p>\n

Conference Presentations<\/h2>\n

Faust, Andy. Remaking masih<\/em> into messiah: infusing a Muslim term with a biblical concept in the translation. 2017. Abraham Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA (and on other occasions with Feruza Krason).<\/p>\n

Faust, Andy and Feruza Krason. 2017. Thomas<\/em> in doubt: best practices for rendering paired alternate personal names in the New Testament. Bible Translation 2017 Conference, Duncanville, Texas, USA.<\/p>\n

Krason, Feruza and Andy Faust. 2017. For heaven\u2019s sake: rendering \u2018third heaven\u2019 and \u2018paradise\u2019 in 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 accurately for Muslim-background audiences. Bible Translation 2017 Conference, Duncanville, Texas, USA (and on other occasions).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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