The second phase of David and Lynn's career began when they were asked to lead the
Gullah New Testament translation to completion, which had been started many
years earlier. With regular trips to the South Carolina Lowcountry, they
reassembled the Sea Island Translation Team, and the Gullah New Testament was
published in 2005.

The present stage of the Franks' career is focused on consulting, teaching,
writing and editing. The Franks began serving as Bible translation consultants
in the West African country of Guinea-Bissau, and a few years later, the same in Nigeria.
Lynn began editing academic publications in translation
and linguistics for SIL. For a dozen years, David was editor of the Journal
of Translation. The two of them helped, as consultants, bring about the
completion of three New Testament translations in Nigeria.

Now in addition to editing, researching and writing, the focus is on Old Testament
translation on both sides of the Atlantic. In Guinea-Bissau, with the New
Testament completed, the Franks are working on the rest of the Bible, which
will take a few more years to complete. A newer project is the Old Testament
for a cluster of Caribbean English Creoles, including Jamaican, Belize
Kriol and Islander Creole (Colombia), which will take many more years to
complete.