Gordon was one of the first people I met at Horsleys Green when I applied to join Wycliffe Bible Translators in 1986. He shared his journey, and talked to us about his own involvement, from the home end, in the worldwide ministry of Bible translation. He was approachable, kind, straightforward, and wise. It was one of those early encounters where a light-bulb went on and I thought “I want to work with people like this”. He and Rosemary also introduced us to the Myers-Briggs personality tests which, years later, played a major part in helping me to realise that the best way I could contribute to Bible translation was not as a translator but as a linguistic researcher. He always took a personal interest in me, though it wouldn’t surprise me if everyone he ever met said the same thing. - David Roberts