Audio Bible Rwanda

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.

Hope for Rwanda

A JESUS Film Project team in Rwanda has a vision to plant a church on each of the country's 1,000 hills.

This vision is becoming a reality. In one area the film and a Proclaimer helped a church multiply from a single congregation of 50 people to 14 meeting places and 550 attendees in just six months time.

In another place, 14 Proclaimers have produced more than 100 listening groups.

Hope and Restoration

Rwandans are finding the hope and guidance they need to move forward thanks to the portability and usability of the Proclaimer. Click here to watch a presentation demonstrating how Audio Bibles are changing lives across the country.

More Exciting Work

In June of this year, Faith Comes By Hearing International Director Morgan Jackson and his wife Mari visited Rwanda. Reminders of the 1994 genocide were everywhere. In the midst of the Genocide Museum documenting inhumanity throughout history and the adobe ruins along the roadways sitting empty after the inhabitants were murdered, Morgan and Mari met many people who had been listening to the Proclaimer and had came to know Christ’s love.

One of the churches they visited was planted by JESUS Film/Faith Comes By Hearing. When they first tried to play the JESUS film there was a lot of spiritual warfare causing trouble, preventing the projector from working. Once the Kinyarwanda Audio Bible came into the area, the trouble stopped. People began gathering under a banana tree to listen to the Word of God in their heart language. Eventually a church was built and 40 people were baptized. Because of the growth, three other churches have been planted from this one church.

Morgan and Mari visited another church where a 14-year-old boy is the pastor. He told them,

We need more Proclaimers.” When asked what he would do if he had a Proclaimer of his own, he said “I’d go out and reach 1,000 people!”

FCBH in Rwanda

One of the most exciting JESUS Film/Faith Comes By Hearing programs going on is in Rwanda. Rwanda is called the Country of a Thousand Hills. Originally the people wanted to plant one church on each of the thousand hills using the Kinyarwanda Proclaimer. In 2008, Faith Comes By Hearing’s regional manager for Africa visited the director of Campus Crusade for Christ International in Rwanda. The CCCI Director told the Regional Manager an exciting story about a pastor they are working with where the JESUS film is being shown to a church with 50 members. He said,

The Regional Manager came back from his trip and reported that 2 churches were initially planted in another place using 14 Proclaimers forming 63 listening groups. Now there are more than 100 Faith Comes By Hearing listening groups going on using those 14 Proclaimers.

JESUS Film and Faith Comes By Hearing Working Together in Rwanda

Campus Crusade/JESUS Film works really hard to bring the love of Jesus Christ to people all around the world. The partnership between them and Faith Comes By Hearing (FCBH) makes that work easier, as told by FCBH’s International Director Morgan Jackson. Read what Morgan says about this vital partnership he evidenced on his recent trip to Rwanda:

“Campus Crusade goes to an area and shows the JESUS film. After showing it sometimes 7 or 8 times, 100 people would come to faith in Christ. The follow year, only 10 of the 100 people would be in a church or fellowship.

“Now when they go to an area, 10 people come to faith in Christ and a Proclaimer is left in the area to start a listening group. Within just one week, those 10 people have invited 10 people to come listen. Within another week, the group has increased to 30; a month later there are 40 people and they can’t fit under the tree. Some end up standing in the rain because they want to hear God’s Word in their heart language.

“The group of 40 will then divide into 2 separate groups of 20 and within 1 month, those 2 groups are so large they have to divide again. Now the 1 Proclaimer is being used among 4 groups and out of frustration they build a church in order to bring the people together. Pastors are blown away because they had been trying for years to get somebody to build a church but nobody would come. Now Campus Crusade is going to areas where there are no pastors and the churches are being built by the people, on their own.

“The Proclaimer never stops. It is run to its limit: Somebody takes it to one place and starts a listening group. Before you know it, there are 10, 15, 20 groups and it’s reached its limit. Each group asks for its own Proclaimer so they don’t have to share with so many others.

“From translation to recording and all the way through to the listening group until every single person has had the opportunity to hear. So in Rwanda, we want to go end to end – from one end of the country to the other.”

Click here to read more about the recording process.

Morgan’s wife Mari says,

It was significant that they called the Proclaimer the radio because in the past it was the radio that told them they should go out and kill their neighbor. Now, this new radio is giving them words of life, telling them to forgive.”