Oral Bible Story App Reaches Remote Area

“He’s from a really remote area. When he’s sending us audio messages you can hear crickets in the background because he’s messaging at night time.” One of the teams we are supporting recently relayed a story to us regarding an app designed to help a hard to reach Muslim minority group understand oral Bible stories in southeast Asia.

The representative from the missionary team continued, “This guy sent me a screenshot and said, ‘I’ve listened to 6 of the 36 stories already.’ It’s some guy in the middle of nowhere and you couldn’t really go there if you wanted to.” This team has received multiple messages from users who are interested in conversing about the Bible stories they heard on the app.

This particular group of people is hard to reach, has special language challenges, is displaced by war and politically sensitive. While physically it’s hard to be on the ground ministering to these people, a special app containing oral Bible stories in their language, designed for low-bandwidth contexts, has been distributed amongst some living in refugee camps and in turn is spreading to others, desperate for hope and knowing what God is really like.

For security reasons, we can’t be more specific, but we praise God for how his Word is going forth to new people and places through digital strategies. Many are hearing the good news of Jesus for the first time. Your faithful support enables projects like this. Thank you for your friendship and your partnership in leading the next generation of global missions.

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