God's Word in Audio - Testimonies
Faith Comes By Hearing associates gather information and testimonies about what God is doing in and through Audio Bible listening programs in heart languages around the world.
Kekchi Project, a Partnership with Wycliffe
About 400,000 people in Guatemala speak Kekchi as their heart language. Before the Audio New Testament, many of them did not even realize that God could understand their prayers. Now, a local believer says, “Thank you for thinking of us. Now it is clear that the Bible is for us. We are listening twice a week. We listen to a chapter, and then ask questions. We are praying for the people who make it possible for us to have this device. The children also like it a lot.”
Testimonies from Faith Comes By Hearing in Guatemala
Chichicastenango, El Quiché (in the west of the country, 135 km. from Guatemala City).
Pastor Juan has very little biblical education, as is the case with the majority of pastors in the rural areas of the country. The pastor tells how he agreed to take charge of the church with great fear and doubt. Nevertheless, he took the position. Each time he preached and arrived at a text which he did not understand (for his lack of knowledge of Spanish), he simply passed over it without explanation. But one day he heard the New Testament in Quiché, his mother tongue, on a local radio station and it made a great impact on him. From then on he began to understand many things in the Bible.
Even so, an even greater day of rejoicing came when a representative of the Guatemalan Bible Society gave him a set of the Audio New Testament in Quiché. From that day on he could understand things, together with his congregation, that before he had to pass over with shame because he didn’t understand them.
He adds, “Now I am not only a pastor, but this knowledge gives me a new value and importance so I can tell others about Christ.” The members of his congregation say that now he is an evangelist with great impact in the community, because he presents the gospel with such clarity in their own language. “Those materials that they have given us are a blessing, many thanks to Faith Comes By Hearing.”
The pastor of 
Iglesia del Nazareno says that the work has been hard. When he began the ministry, the people did not believe in the change that God had worked in his life. “After I became a pastor by the goodness of God, the people of the community themselves did not believe what I told them. That’s because before I met the Lord I drank a lot and had two women. The people thought that I was a liar. When I preached, the people said that the things I said were good but, since they didn’t understand Spanish, maybe I wasn’t telling them the whole truth. But one day the brothers from Faith Comes By Hearing gave me a set of the Audio New Testament in Kekchi; then things changed.” When the pastor got to this point in his story, tears began to fall. “Now the church is full on Sunday mornings and the people no longer doubt because they listen to the Bible, the Word of God, in their own language. That is changing lives and the people even value the ministry that I am doing more. Now, they believe that God can change and is changing their lives. Glory to God.”
Kekchi Baptist Church: “I don’t know what that New Testament has,” says the pastor, “but the first day that I played it in the church, a whole family accepted Christ. I believe it is because the Bible itself says that the Word of God has power. Since that happened, wherever I go, the NT in Kekchi goes with me. Almost in every new place that I play it, several people accept Christ. Thanks to it I almost don’t preach anymore. All that I do is make the invitation because the Word of God itself speaks to their hearts. The most beautiful of all is that it is in our own language. Thanks to God and to the brothers from Faith Comes By Hearing for giving us this excellent material. I don’t have words to express my appreciation.”
