| From darkness to light . . . |
| 01/04/2012 |
| From darkness to light . . .
Mission field report from Ethiopia and south India.
Read about saved souls and changed lives.
New opportunities for engagement....Read More |
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| God is Moving in the Fishermen’s Villages |
| 10/01/2011 |
| God is moving in the coastal fishermen’s village of Machiliphatnam on the Bay of Bengal. However, traditional Hindu festivals being held represent a strong spiritual obstacle to reaching the lost with the Good News about Jesus! For centuries, Hindu fishermen have worshiped idols and performed live animal sacrifices to appease their demanding gods....Read More |
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| You don’t have to go anywhere! |
| 07/02/2011 |
| You don’t have to go anywhere!
There are others willing to go on your behalf, but they need your help.
They need Talking Bibles in order to share the Good News about Jesus with Hindus.
You don’t have to go where Christian are not allowed....Read More |
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| My return to Ethiopia . . . a trip to remember! By Harvey T, Hoekstra |
| 06/01/2011 |
| ‘Honey, guess what? – We’re going to Africa!’
My return to Ethiopia . . . a trip to remember! By Harvey T, Hoekstra
“Our family served as missionaries in Africa for nearly 30 years. We began in the Sudan in 1948 and in the rain forest of SW Ethiopia in 1964.”
“When we left Ethiopia in 1976, I never dreamed that I would ever return. But, there I was 35 years later, at 90 years of age, being welcomed back by thousands of these Majangir people among whom we had lived in the forest so long ago. It was unbelievable. I could not have imagined such a welcome. ...Read More |
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| Life-changing Experience |
| 05/10/2011 |
| “This will be a life-changing experience,” the doctor said to me. Just a few days earlier, I was lying on the ground in southwest Ethiopia. I couldn’t get up! As I lay there in agonizing pain, I remember thinking, “What have I done to myself?” I found out later that I had broken both my heels as a result of a fall I suffered during my recent trip to Ethiopia.
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| Majangir Talking Bible - Letter from Talking Bibles Founder |
| 04/10/2011 |
| In February, a group of us traveled to Ethiopia along with my father, Harvey. We went to celebrate and worship God with the Majang people. I thought I would share a report that my dad wrote about our time in Ethiopia. - Paul D. Hoekstra, Vice President for Talking Bibles....Read More |
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| Winter 2011 Newsletter |
| 01/10/2011 |
| In this issue: Mien whole Bible recording underway. Murle language Talking Bible for the Sudan. Majangir language Talking Bibles for Ethiopia. Fishing villages in India and the Telegu Talking Bibles....Read More |
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| Does a Talking Bible have feet? |
| 12/03/2010 |
| Does a Talking Bible have feet? No! Of course not. You might be thinking, “What a silly question to ask.”
Inside the Talking Bible is the Good News many long to
hear. The Bible says, “How beautiful are the feet of
those who bring good news.” It is not just the feet that
bring the Good News to the village that are beautiful....Read More |
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| What is unshakeable in this world? |
| 11/04/2010 |
| In nations rich and poor, you and I face the same hopes and fears. Will my children have a home? Will I have food on the table? Is my job secure? Is my marriage secure? What can I depend on? If the bottom drops out and the very worst happens, who will save me? The Bible is the assurance of God's outreached hand. It's a fortress in the storm showing them the way home. We know it to be true because "for thy name's sake: Thou will lead me and guide me"....Read More |
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| Your gifts have changed an Hindu heart! |
| 10/25/2010 |
| Your gifts have changed an Hindu heart! Lakshme, a young Indian pastor in training, is using the Talking Bible. He goes house to house in the rural village of Chendur in southern India with the same simple outline for all
the Bible studies he teaches....Read More |
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| God Created Every One of us to Make a Difference |
| 10/02/2010 |
| Talking Bibles has a heart for people all over the world. We want to make a difference... A GOD Difference!
When you make a difference in the world, the kind of difference God created you to make, you can't wait to wake up in the morning and do it again, and again.... Every day....Read More |
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| Can you even imagine? 16 converts in one day! And NO BIBLES! |
| 09/28/2010 |
| Can you even imagine? 16 converts in one day! And NO BIBLES!
A discussion was taking place in the middle of an African village. A small group of village chiefs were talking about the future. “How can we study the Bible?” they asked each other, “No one here has a Bible.”
...Read More |
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| It's hard to imagine life with no Bible. |
| 09/14/2010 |
| It's hard to imagine life with no Bible. Look around you. Bibles can be found anywhere: personal Bibles, themed Bibles, digital Bibles, Bibles for children, Bibles for women, Bibles for men, Bibles for devotionals, Bibles for study. Thin, thick, paperback, leather-bound, gold-leafed, red-letter . . ....Read More |
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| How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news! |
| 09/04/2010 |
| It's hard to imagine life with no Bible. Look around you. Bibles can be found anywhere: personal Bibles, themed Bibles, digital Bibles, Bibles for children, Bibles for women, Bibles for men, Bibles for devotionals, Bibles for study....Read More |
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| Would you stay home if you had no legs? |
| 08/15/2010 |
| Would you stay home if you had no legs? Would it be easier to decide if you had to walk on your hands and knees on a sandy path?
There are challenges to being handicapped anywhere in the world, but in rural Mozambique the challenge of traveling through thick mangrove forests and on sandy pathways could convince someone without legs to give up and stay home.
That is not the case for Pastor Rafael Coman Samento. He is on a mission.
...Read More |
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| Can you imagine? Three whole days?! |
| 08/01/2010 |
| Can you imagine? Three whole days?!
It took over three full days walk on the jungle trail to get a Talking Bible to their village. That’s the only way the words of the “Great Spirit” are being heard in the jungle.
It was a dark night in the village round house. The only light illuminating the palm-thatched roof came from the small hearth fires. Hanging around each fire are hammocks with people listening to the words of the “Great Spirit.”
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| Odola Wenyari The Powerful Witchdoctor is Saved |
| 07/01/2010 |
| “If this man believes, everyone will turn to Jesus,” Ezekiel Ochala Alero said.
But how could he? Odola Wenyari was a witchdoctor. A very powerful witchdoctor.
He had cheated them all. He had taken their cows, sheep, goats and chickens. He had deceived all of them for many years. Everyone was afraid of Odola. Everyone knew that he was the witchdoctor.
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| They're Going to Kill us All! |
| 06/01/2010 |
| “They’re going to kill us all!”
“Honey, they’re going to kill us all,” Harvey gasped, as he collapsed into Lavina’s arms.
Just moments before, Harvey had yelled “No, man, no!” as he wheeled around and ran from a big, strong Majang man,
named Ocoor.
Weak from the run down the hill away from a group of drunken Majang men, Harvey had just enough strength to get to Lavina....Read More |
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| Newsletter December 2009 |
| 01/01/2010 |
| Negative Impact, Bucketful of Change, Tonga Talking Bibles, The Forgotten, Xhosa Talking Bible Dedication, Siswati Talking Bibles, Shade Tree Listening...Read More |
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| Newsletter June 2009 |
| 06/01/2009 |
| When my phone rang early that morning, I was hoping for some good news. Since I had landed in Eritrea early the previous morning I sensed that my visit was untimely . . . ...Read More |
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| How does a church get started? |
| 12/01/2008 |
How does a church get started? Pastor Chandru Gowda knows!
He started one.
It began when a 100-year-old lady got saved and then
began bringing her daughter to listen to the Talking Bible . . . there was no Christian witnesses among the
population and outside religions were seen as a threat....Read More |
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| “Even me! |
| 06/01/2008 |
| “Even me!
A blind man since birth,
am now in a position to share the gospel.”...Read More |
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| God’s Word and Pastor Issais Confront the Traditional African Church |
| 12/01/2007 |
| God’s Word and Pastor Issais confront the traditional
African church . . . traditional church means traditional African religion practiced by a witch doctor involving animal sacrifices, curses and divination....Read More |
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| Mangunmet Village in Rural Mozambique |
| 06/01/2007 |
Mangunmet village in rural Mozambique is not easy to get to . . . homes are simple grass huts . . . literacy is under 30-percent. Few people own their own Bibles and even fewer are able to read them.
It’s not an area where people would think a great work of God would happen, until they hear what Pastor Solomon Masulaho Masinga and others say is
currently happening in the little village....Read More |
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| The Advent of the Talking Bible |
| 12/01/2007 |
| The advent of the Talking Bible revolutionizes how we can make the translated Scriptures available in audio for nonreaders, print impaired and the blind....Read More |
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| What if You Thought There Was Only One Bible |
| 06/01/2007 |
| What if you thought there was
only one Bible and it was in
someone else’s language? Can
you imagine how excited you’d
be to find out there was a
Bible in your own language as
well?...Read More |
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