Over 70 Haitian Relief Teams Deliver Audio Bibles
Aid Workers Report God's Word Bringing Comfort
Over a month has passed since that devastating earthquake near Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. The quake is blamed for killing more than 212,000 people, injuring 300,000 and leaving more than 1 million homeless in the city of 3 million and surrounding communities. The U.N. reports that more than 600 registered aid groups are working there now.
Faith Comes By Hearing, the global Audio Bible ministry leader, is providing solar-powered Audio Bibles called Proclaimers® to over 70 aid groups. These small, self-contained digital players are loaded with the New Testament in Haitian Creole and can broadcast to about 300 people at once.
Convoy of Hope, a disaster relief organization, is delivering 600 Proclaimers® to Haitian pastors and priests, taking them on a space- and weight-available basis along with their containers of food and relief essentials.
Jeff Nene, Convoy of Hope's director of communications, said they decided to include and employ these Audio Bibles in their recovery efforts because . . .
Audio Bibles Proclaim God's Message in Mother Tongue
Quechua People: "The Word has changed me!"
The Quechua people of South America didn't believe God understood their language—as far as they could tell, God only spoke Spanish.
Like many of his fellow Quechuans, Ricardo is unable to read his own language and often heard about spiritual things in Spanish, his second language.
Ricardo grew up as the son of the local curandera, a witchcraft healer. The local law and cultural customs required him to take over his father's practice; but, after sitting in on a Bible listening session, Ricardo realized there was another way to live.
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 with ongoing translations being worked on as we speak. Thanks to these efforts, listeners from around the world can now hear the Scriptures in pristine digital recordings in 435 languages.
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