May 29, 2009
May 29, 2009
Albuquerque, NM: Faith Comes By Hearing (FCBH) offers the world’s largest catalog of Audio Bibles to individuals and nations who hunger to hear the Bible in their native heart-language. Offering every person on our planet equal access to the Bible requires meeting the unique cultural and literacy challenges present in underdeveloped countries. FCBH is attempting to address the biblical illiteracy and unaccessible nature of written language needs of a complex world through modern technology. Their mission is to offer the Bible through this technology in every language or tongue.
For the first time in history, every known language (or ethnos) group has been identified. There are 6,809 in our world today. Along with many other partners (like Synergy Initiatives), FCBH is working hard to record an Audio Bible in 2,000 of these languages and start 2 million listening groups in order to make the Bible accessible to 97% of the world's population by the year 2016.
Synergy Initiatives has been in an ongoing dialogue with FCBH since finding out about their Proclaimer Audio Bibles and listening group program in late 2008. It is our hope and intension to use the audio Bibles to establish weekly Bible listening groups throughout the Circle of Light communities. The listening groups will be hosted at the Christian Training Center and throughout the surrounding community. Training is scheduled for August 3-5, 2009 in Maputo, Mozambique and implementation will begin immediately following. We work together so that faith in God might come to people living in the surrounding villages by providing an opportunity for them to hear the Bible in their own heart-language.