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Look around…everywhere you go, people are on their cell phones, chatting with others, playing video games and texting their friends.
In fact, texting is now one of the most common ways to communicate. In the U.S. alone, people send around 530 million text messages every single day.
Faith Comes By Hearing, the world’s foremost Audio Bible ministry, is now using text messaging to deliver God’s Word in audio.
By texting “BIBLE” to 80672, people can have the encouraging Word of God sent directly to their mobile phone. Once subscribed, people will receive a chapter a day of the Audio Drama Bible. In less than a year, people can listen through the entire New Testament.*
Fast Facts
- 298 Million – Americans with cell phones
- 303 Million – U.S. population (July 2008 est.)
- 6.7 Billion – World population (Nov. 2008 est.)
- 3.5 Billion – Global cell phone users (Nov. 2008 est.)
- 46 – Cell phones activated every minute in U.S.
- 723 – Cell phones activated every minute in world.
“The cell phone is a perfect way to deliver God’s Word,” said Troy Carl, national director for Faith Comes By Hearing. “What do you do with a phone? You put it to your ear and listen. Phones are inherently made for listening, so it just makes sense.”
Carl said people can easily get into God’s Word wherever they are.
One man took Troy’s advice, signed up and reports that listening through his cell phone has become an important way to start his day.
"Just the other day, I was listening to the ‘Sermon on the Mount,’ and it struck me and prepared me for my day,” one man said. “This was a strong reminder of how to respond when the day brings pressure, disappointments and joys. This is wonderful way to get into God’s Word.”
Faith Comes By Hearing launched this outreach effort because of the potential number of people that can only be reached through mobile devices.
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“Mobile phone distribution is a critical element to spreading the gospel,” said Carl. “Here in the U.S., and worldwide, cell phones are actually growing at a more rapid rate than internet access and capability.”
“Research shows more than 298 million people in the U.S. own cell phones,” he said. “That’s not the future; that’s right now. We can reach millions of people with the Word of God right now.”
The tech research firm, Gartner, reports that 46 people in the U.S. become new cell phone subscribers every minute. Worldwide this number jumps to 723 new cell phone subscribers every 60 seconds.
“That’s more than one million new cell phone users everyday,” said Carl. “In many places, there are more cell phones than people, and many of those phones are multi-media compatible.”
In 2009, the ministry will add over 300 languages to this new text messaging outreach.
*Standard text messaging and data transfer rates apply. Check your cell phone plan for details.
