In 1949, Peeke joined Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics and worked throughout Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador as a linguist and translator. She then received her doctorate in Anthropological Linguistics in 1968 from Indiana University. Since the dedication of the Waorani New Testament in 1992, Peeke has retired, but has returned to Ecuador several times as a volunteer. She and Rosi Jung, who assisted Peeke with the translation of the New Testament, continued to travel to jungle villages to teach the Waorani in the use of the translated scriptures. She is currently compiling a bilingual dictionary in Waorani and Spanish.
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The school began an undergraduate major in missions at the beginning of this spring semester and is expected to offer its first master's level classes in 2002. The school will also offer an international health ministries program to serve medical missionaries and other health care professionals.