Partnership Creates World’s Largest Repository of Digital Bible Text & Audio
Joining forces increases digital access to meet global demands of an expanding hi-tech population
Faith Comes By Hearing (FCBH) is pleased to announce a new expansion of a longtime partnership with United Bible Societies (UBS). The two Christian organizations, each committed to providing God's Word to all the peoples of the world, have agreed to a collaboration that will lay the groundwork for unprecedented access to digital Bible text and audio. This is accomplished by an agreement that brings together UBS's Digital Bible Library and FCBH's Digital Bible Project in a way that will leverage technology for greater access, while also improving efficiency and reducing duplication of work and services . . .
The Word of God in 618 Languages . . . and Counting!
Including Trio, spoken in Suriname by only 2,300 people
Faith Comes By Hearing has added eight new language recordings to our catalog of Audio Scriptures. The new releases are:
Several Major Milestones reached in 2011
Language recordings, Proclaimers, Military BibleSticks, and Bible Apps
It has been an exciting and productive year for the world's foremost Audio Bible ministry. Faith Comes By Hearing (FCBH) has surpassed several milestones as the ministry continues to reach out with the Word of God in audio. The ministry now has Audio New Testaments in over 600 languages, deployed over 150,000 Military BibleSticks for American troops, delivered more than 300,000 Proclaimers throughout the world, and developed Bible apps for 40 Bible Society partners.
Having passed the 600-language mark this last October, Faith Comes By Hearing finished the year with Audio New Testaments in the heart language of 618 people groups around the globe. All told, these languages are spoken by over 5 billion people, or more than two-thirds of the world's population.
While these language recordings can be listened to through online streaming, podcasts and on the ministry's smartphone app (Bible.is), FCBH also continues to reach out to every village, tribe and people group through their solar-powered, digital audio player called the Proclaimer. With initial production beginning in 2005, the ministry has now shipped more than 300,000 devices - which have resulted in more than 630,000 listening groups worldwide.
Initially started in 2008 to meet the request of a handful of active duty chaplains, the Military BibleStick outreach also saw a landmark number passed this year. There are now more than 150,000 BibleSticks in the hands of America's men and women in uniform, as Faith Comes By Hearing has filled requests from over 900 chaplains seeking to meet the spiritual needs of the troops they serve.
Audio Bibles Have a Global Impact
Audio Bibles connect modern technology to the Word of God, with the timeless result of sharing God's Word with people who hunger for spiritual knowledge. Faith Comes By Hearing has been at the forefront of this movement, working tirelessly to compile the largest catalog of Audio Bibles in the world. Thanks to these efforts, listeners from around the world can now hear the Scriptures in pristine digital recordings in 618 languages.
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