Faith Comes By Hearing, the world’s foremost Audio Bible ministry, recently released nine more Audio Drama New Testament recordings.
The following Audio Drama New Testaments are the first of many that will be recorded and released during 2009:
• Lokpa (Lukpa) – Benin
• Tampulma – Ghana
• Idoma – Nigeria
• Marghi – Nigeria
• Nahuatl Huasteca Central – Mexico
• Nahuatl Huasteca Western – Mexico
• Quechua Northern Conchucos – Peru
• Khmer Central - Cambodia
• Arabic Standard – Worldwide
These new Audio Bibles are recorded in the heart languages, or primary languages, of 216 million people. Altogether, Faith Comes By Hearing now has 403 Audio Scripture recordings available in 341 languages.
Indigenous missionaries, local church leaders and ministry workers will take these Audio Drama New Testaments into villages and communities around the world and begin listening groups. Villagers in groups from 10 to 300 will gather to listen to the Word and then discuss what they've heard.
Faith Comes By Hearing is diligently working to fulfill the Great Commission by bringing the Word of God to every nation, tribe and tongue. Research shows that there are 6,809 distinct people groups who make up more than 6.5 billion people.
“For the first time in history, every language group has been identified,” said Morgan Jackson, international director for Faith Comes By Hearing.
“Many of these groups transmit their beliefs, history and values through stories, proverbs, poetry, chants, songs and ceremonies,” said Jackson. “Cultures that primarily communicate their information using these forms are called ‘oral cultures.’”
About 70% of people live and learn in oral cultures.
“People from oral cultures learn differently than you and I do,” he said. “It is not enough to simply take materials created for literate people and read them onto a recorded format. It’s the power of stories that unlocks the Bible for them.”
Many people do not realize that about 70% of the Bible is in a narrative format. Jackson said he’s seen how Audio Bibles impact people firsthand.
“When you go into these villages you see people packed inside these one-room huts and people gathered all around the windows outside. They say, ‘No one wants to miss the stories,’ and they walk for miles to get here,” Jackson said. “When they listen to the Word, they enter into the story; like they are there actually experiencing what’s happening.”
“When Jesus speaks, they feel like He is speaking directly to them. And when they interact with the Word of God this way, people come to know and follow the God of the Bible,” he said.
“There are still language groups that need an Audio Bible in their heart language. There are people who wait to hear God's Word because they cannot read it,” Jackson said.
Faith Comes By Hearing’s goal is to record Audio Bibles in 2,000 languages by 2016, reaching 97% of the world’s population.
In 2008, Faith Comes By Hearing completed and released 86 new Audio Bible recordings, providing nearly one million Audio Bibles throughout the world.
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