Faith Comes By Hearing's Audio Bible Outreach Programs Featured in Washington Post Article
The non-profit work of Faith Comes By Hearing was featured in this weekend's Washington Post article "Plugging the Planet Into the Word: Technology Vastly Expands Bible's Audience, Christianity's Influence."
(PRWEB) November 8, 2007 -- Faith Comes By Hearing was featured for their non-profit work in this weekend's Washington Post article "Plugging the Planet Into the Word: Technology Vastly Expands Bible's Audience, Christianity's Influence."
The article, which quotes Faith Comes By Hearing's Laurie Westlake, discusses how new, technologically advanced audio Bible formats, which are being produced in local languages for cultures worldwide, are able to spread the teachings of the Bible to millions of people who have never had access to it before.
"Using the audio Bible to reach out to cultures worldwide is a movement to revitalize religion in the world, and it's huge," says Westlake.
The article also highlights how newly translated audio Bible formats, including MP3s, CDs and downloadable audio Bible Podcasts, are able to teach villagers in impoverished countries how to read through literacy programs and "listening groups" where they can listen to passages of the Bible while following along in their printed copy. Many of these villagers cannot afford to go to school, so these groups are the only educational programs they have ever participated in.
As Westlake explains in the article, the Faith Comes By Hearing organization started over 33,000 of these listening groups during the last year alone. They are currently comprised of approximately 3 million members worldwide, which is three times the number of those attending two years ago.
To date, Faith Comes By Hearing has created 314 audio scripture recordings in 266 languages spoken by more than 4.3 billion people in 92 countries -- making it the largest catalog of recorded scriptures in the world. These recordings can be played by individuals or groups using any of the following Faith Comes By Hearing products:
- The Proclaimer -- a solar powered digital audio player
- The Acclaimer -- a battery-operated portable DVD player and projector
- BibleStick -- a personal digital audio player
- MP3 Audio Bible -- compressed audio files loaded onto CDs
- Audio Bible Podcasts -- audio files that can be uploaded to PCs, iPods or MP3 players
The organization's goal is to record an Audio Bible for 2,000 of the known 6,809 languages in use today, reaching 97% of the population by 2016.
To learn more about Faith Comes By Hearing, please visit the "Who We Are" section of the website: http://www.FaithComesByHearing.com/who-we-are
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