Audio Bibles Proclaim Word Despite Illiteracy, Poverty
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Faith Comes By Hearing, the world's foremost Audio Bible ministry, recently released nine more Audio New Testament recordings.
The following Audio New Testaments are now available for ministry purposes:
These new offerings represent more than 4.7 million people on three continents. Faith Comes By Hearing now has 412 Audio Scripture recordings available in 350 languages. More than 370 of these Audio Bibles are available for free download.
- 6.6 Billion – World population
- 50 – Percent of illiterate people
- $157.50 – Cost to sponsor a village
- 126 – People groups in Tanzania
- $700 – Average Income in Sierra Leone
- 200 – Audio Bibles set to record in 2009
- 18 – Audio Bibles recordings released in 2009
The mission of Faith Comes By Hearing is to record the New Testament in 2,000 languages and to start 2 million Bible listening groups by 2016 to reach the 50% of the world who cannot read and are poor.
"Our calling is to reach the poor and illiterate people, and we do that by recording the Bible in the heart languages of the people and then by starting listening groups," said Morgan Jackson, international director of Faith Comes By Hearing. "We desire to have every single person hear God's Word in their own mother tongue from Matthew to Revelation so that they'll become disciples of Christ."
"Modern technology is helping overcome centuries-old barriers of distance, language, illiteracy and culture," said Jackson.
"For the first time in history, we have the tools to reach every person in the world with the Word of God—no matter where they are," he said.
One of these tools is the Proclaimer®, a self-powered audio player that is used in the most remote and rugged locations. The Proclaimer's® embedded microchip is pre-loaded with the Audio Drama New Testament in the heart languages of people around the world. Indigenous believers take these life-changing Audio Bibles into their villages and towns and start Bible listening groups. Villagers in groups as large as 300 gather around to listen and then discuss what they've heard. As God's Word goes forth, lives, families and villages are changed.
Morgan Jackson explains how the ministry of Faith Comes By Hearing received the call to record Audio Bibles in other languages.
"I wish people could go into a village somewhere in the world and watch people as they hear—for the first time—the Word in their own mother tongue," Jackson said. "They would see people holding up the Proclaimer® and talking about the joy they now have as they hear God's Word. They would feel their excitement at being able to use these Proclaimers® to bring family, friends and whole communities to the Lord."