"God delivered me from bad situations."
Elizabeth’s parents passed away early in her childhood, forcing her to leave school around the 3rd grade. Then, at 14, she was married off to a cruel husband. He would abuse and beat her, eventually marrying a second wife.
As the years passed, Elizabeth felt she was only an object to be abused; she found no worth in her life.
One night, as hopeless tears poured down her face, she heard someone calling her. It was a voice she had never heard, but it kept calling to her.
“Eliza, Eliza! I am God talking to you. I have cleansed you. Stand firm to serve me now,” the voice told her.
Before that night, no one had ever told Elizabeth about Jesus or our creator God. She only knew of Ngai, a god who lived on a far-off mountain and would never speak directly to anyone, especially a woman. From that night on, Elizabeth knew the true, loving God.
Immediately after encountering Him, Elizabeth found a local church where God gave her a spiritual father to mentor and teach her more about Jesus.
“My spiritual father, a servant of God, was helpful because I was new to the faith. [Through him,] God trained me in the ministry, and I began to pray for people. God began to use me to do many things that I could not explain,” Elizabeth recounts.
Miraculously, Elizabeth’s husband began to notice the significant changes occurring in his first wife’s life, and soon, he, too, decided to follow Jesus.
As his life began to transform, his abuse of Elizabeth stopped. His second wife refused to join him and Elizabeth in worshipping Jesus and finally returned to her family home.
“God delivered me from bad situations,” Elizabeth says. She relates her life and experience of God with the story of the Samaritan woman who encountered Jesus at a well in John 4. “What I like about that story is how that woman went and told other people, ‘Come and see this man, he has told me all about my own story.’”
She had heard the story before, but a popular interpretation of the passage she had heard from others cast Jesus in a poor light.
Due to leaving school so young, Elizabeth never felt confident enough to study the passage herself, so her spiritual father gave her a Talking Bible.
With her Talking Bible, she could finally listen deeply to John 4 and confidently know that the story does not support the cruel interpretations others told her.
Elizabeth also started using her Talking Bible to teach the children at her church.
Elizabeth says she felt God calling her to teach children and help rescue them from their difficulties because God had once saved her from a difficult life.
Previously, she would meet with the children once a week and struggled to teach them. Since introducing the Talking Bible to the children, more kids are coming, even some from outside the church, and she is now meeting with them three times a week. She says now the children understand much and are excited to learn about Jesus.
What an amazing testimony! God turned Elizabeth’s life of tragedy into a life of redemption. And just like the Samaritan woman at the well, Elizabeth is not keeping it to herself.
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“My Heart Was Beating to Know God” Ashura didn’t know what her heart was searching for. One day while walking through the market, she noticed a group of people singing together. She didn’t recognize the songs or understand the words, but something about their joy stirred her deeply. Quietly, she joined them. Only later did she realize they were a church choir praising God—and among them was someone she recognized: her neighbor. A few days later, Ashura saw that same neighbor sitting beneath a tree with a small group gathered around a Talking Bible. Curious and still thinking about what she had experienced in the market, Ashura sat down to listen. That day, they were listening to John 3. As the words were spoken aloud, Ashura leaned in. And when they reached verse 16, something happened she could not explain. “My heart was beating to know God,” she says. Wanting to understand more, Ashura later bought a printed New Testament and tried reading the same passage for herself. But even though she had completed 9th grade, the words were difficult to fully grasp. She could read the words—but she could not truly understand them. Then she heard the passage again through the Talking Bible. This time, everything became clear . The meaning reached her heart in a way printed words never had. Because someone provided a Talking Bible, Ashura was finally able to hear and understand God’s Word in a way she could fully grasp. She continued listening with the group, learning more about Jesus each week. Before long, Ashura gave her life to Christ. Today, she is growing in her faith through a Talking Bible listening group that meets twice each week beneath a large tree outside Kigoma. Together, the group listens to God’s Word, asks questions, and learns in community. Ashura’s story is one of many lives being transformed through the power of God’s Word in audio form. For millions of oral learners around the world, hearing the Bible is the key to understanding it. And when people hear and understand God’s Word, lives are changed forever.
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Prasad Can Finally Hear God's Word! Prasad often sits quietly in the darkness of his small home in India, listening as the voice of Scripture fills the room. Through the Talking Bible, he can finally hear God's Word for himself. Blind since birth, Prasad is now 55 years old and lives with his brother and sister-in-law in a farming community where life depends on hard physical labor. While others spend their days working in the fields, Prasad often remains at home with little freedom to travel on his own. As a boy, he loved going to church and listening carefully to the sermons. But once the service ended, the rest of the week was spent longing to hear more of the Bible—something that always remained beyond his reach. Although Prasad learned Braille as a student, he never had access to a Braille Bible. For decades, the only Scripture available to him came through a short Christian radio program each evening. Every day he waited for those precious thirty minutes, knowing they would soon end. Then the radio program stopped. Prasad's sister-in-law had watched his longing for God's Word for years. When she learned about the Talking Bible, she knew it would change his life. For the first time, Prasad could listen whenever he wanted. "I cannot read the Bible," he says simply. "I cannot read." Now he returns to God's Word again and again. If he wants to hear a passage another time, he simply presses play. Scripture is no longer limited to a brief radio broadcast—it is always within reach. One Bible story has especially touched his heart: the story of Job. Prasad sees his own life reflected in Job's suffering, loneliness, and perseverance. Because of his blindness, he explains that no one would marry him. Yet Job's faith reminds him to continue trusting God despite hardship. "Job's life shows me that I should not go away from Christ." Though Prasad has never been able to see the words of Scripture on a page, he now hears them clearly for himself. In the quiet darkness of his home, God's Word has become a light—bringing comfort in loneliness, strength in hardship, and the assurance that God knows him, loves him, and speaks to him through His Word. Today, millions of people around the world are just like Prasad. They are blind, cannot read, or have no access to the Bible in a format they can understand. The Talking Bible is changing that—one listener, one family, and one community at a time. Give a Talking Bible>>
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Prasad Can Finally Hear God's Word! Prasad often sits quietly in the darkness of his small home in India, listening as the voice of Scripture fills the room. Through the Talking Bible, he can finally hear God's Word for himself. Blind since birth, Prasad is now 55 years old and lives with his brother and sister-in-law in a farming community where life depends on hard physical labor. While others spend their days working in the fields, Prasad often remains at home with little freedom to travel on his own. As a boy, he loved going to church and listening carefully to the sermons. But once the service ended, the rest of the week was spent longing to hear more of the Bible—something that always remained beyond his reach. Although Prasad learned Braille as a student, he never had access to a Braille Bible. For decades, the only Scripture available to him came through a short Christian radio program each evening. Every day he waited for those precious thirty minutes, knowing they would soon end. Then the radio program stopped. Prasad's sister-in-law had watched his longing for God's Word for years. When she learned about the Talking Bible, she knew it would change his life. For the first time, Prasad could listen whenever he wanted. "I cannot read the Bible," he says simply. "I cannot read." Now he returns to God's Word again and again. If he wants to hear a passage another time, he simply presses play. Scripture is no longer limited to a brief radio broadcast—it is always within reach. One Bible story has especially touched his heart: the story of Job. Prasad sees his own life reflected in Job's suffering, loneliness, and perseverance. Because of his blindness, he explains that no one would marry him. Yet Job's faith reminds him to continue trusting God despite hardship. "Job's life shows me that I should not go away from Christ." Though Prasad has never been able to see the words of Scripture on a page, he now hears them clearly for himself. In the quiet darkness of his home, God's Word has become a light—bringing comfort in loneliness, strength in hardship, and the assurance that God knows him, loves him, and speaks to him through His Word. Today, millions of people around the world are just like Prasad. They are blind, cannot read, or have no access to the Bible in a format they can understand. The Talking Bible is changing that—one listener, one family, and one community at a time. Give a Talking Bible>>
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“My Heart Was Beating to Know God” Ashura didn’t know what her heart was searching for. One day while walking through the market, she noticed a group of people singing together. She didn’t recognize the songs or understand the words, but something about their joy stirred her deeply. Quietly, she joined them. Only later did she realize they were a church choir praising God—and among them was someone she recognized: her neighbor. A few days later, Ashura saw that same neighbor sitting beneath a tree with a small group gathered around a Talking Bible. Curious and still thinking about what she had experienced in the market, Ashura sat down to listen. That day, they were listening to John 3. As the words were spoken aloud, Ashura leaned in. And when they reached verse 16, something happened she could not explain. “My heart was beating to know God,” she says. Wanting to understand more, Ashura later bought a printed New Testament and tried reading the same passage for herself. But even though she had completed 9th grade, the words were difficult to fully grasp. She could read the words—but she could not truly understand them. Then she heard the passage again through the Talking Bible. This time, everything became clear . The meaning reached her heart in a way printed words never had. Because someone provided a Talking Bible, Ashura was finally able to hear and understand God’s Word in a way she could fully grasp. She continued listening with the group, learning more about Jesus each week. Before long, Ashura gave her life to Christ. Today, she is growing in her faith through a Talking Bible listening group that meets twice each week beneath a large tree outside Kigoma. Together, the group listens to God’s Word, asks questions, and learns in community. Ashura’s story is one of many lives being transformed through the power of God’s Word in audio form. For millions of oral learners around the world, hearing the Bible is the key to understanding it. And when people hear and understand God’s Word, lives are changed forever.
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HELP! She Had No Way to Read the Bible—Until Now No one in Devi's family can read—not her, not her husband, not her children. “We never knew the Lord… but when we started hearing this Talking Bible, we came to know our God.” For years, the Bible was completely out of reach. No way to read it… no way to understand it… no way to truly know God. Right now, hundreds of millions of people are still living in that same reality—unable to read and without access to the Bible. Then everything changed. Someone placed a Talking Bible in Devi’s hands. Now, each day, she presses play—and the Bible fills their home. For the first time, her family is hearing the Bible together. Before receiving the Talking Bible, Devi’s life was filled with hardship, sickness, and constant worry. The religion she knew was centered on rituals—things done out of obligation, not relationship. She did not know Jesus. She had never heard the Gospel in a way she could understand. There was no personal connection with God—only traditions followed without truly knowing Him. But as she listened to the Talking Bible, everything began to change. She discovered that God is not distant or unknown—He is a loving Father who speaks, who listens, and who desires a relationship with His children. She began to pray: “Thank you, Father… thank you for making us Your children… thank you for healing us…” Now, Devi prays for her husband working far from home. She prays for her children as they go into the fields. Even while working long days for a small wage, she carries a new joy in her heart. She is a child of God. Though others mock and oppose her, she continues to listen—because now she knows the truth. Everything has changed. This is what happens when someone who cannot read is given access to the Bible. One Talking Bible can reach an entire family—bringing hope, truth, and the opportunity to know God. There are still hundreds of millions of people like Devi—waiting for the chance to hear the Bible for the very first time. You can help place a Talking Bible into the hands of someone still waiting.
