Partnering to Bring God’s Word to Poor and

Illiterate People

Radio Bible ProjectRadio Bible Project

Even in today’s high-tech world, radio is a powerful medium of communication:• Radio reaches across social

barriers.• Radio can access closed homes.• Radio reaches people who cannot, will not or choose not to read.• Radio is believed, more validity to on-air content

• Governments use radio to reach and teach the masses.

• In Rwanda, Hutu extremists used radio to inspire hatred toward Tutsis.

“In terms of the developing world and the sheer number of people who can be reached, radio is far and away the most important medium.”

(Red Cross/Red Crescent)

There are 3.3 billion non-readers in the world. Radio reaches virtually all of them.

Godly Partnerships to Fulfill the Great Commission

Radio Bible PartnersRadio Bible Partners

The United Bible Societies (UBS) is a fellowship of 145 national Bible Societies working to place God’s Word in the hearts and minds of the people they serve across 200 countries and territories.

Trans World Radio produces programs in more than 225 languages and dialects aired from more than 2,000 outlets around the world, reaching the world for Christ by mass media so that lasting fruit is produced

The American Bible Society's mission is to make the Bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford, so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Faith Comes By Hearing, the world’s foremost Audio Bible ministry, is committed to reaching the nations with the Word of God in Audio, offering the Bible in a format that will connect with the world's 50% illiterate population.

$225,000 provides one year of daily broadcasts of Old Testament stories, the whole New Testament, and follow up material for each

language

100 languages = $22.5 million total

The goal of the Radio Bible Project is for people to know the Bible and to apply lessons from the Scriptures to their lives.

LANGUAGES:LANGUAGES:• Mandarin (800 million)• Spanish (270 million)• Arabic (200 million)• Bengali (170 million)• Russian (140 million)• Indonesian (162 million)• Malayalam (36 million)• Swahili (30 million)

The FormatThe Format• 365, 15-minute radio broadcasts • Dramatized recording • 220 Old Testament stories & whole New Testament• 8 - 10 minutes of word-for-word Scripture• 5 - 7 minutes of intro and bridge material• Interaction and follow-up material• 100 languages – reaching 70% of world’s population

Ashante Twi language• 2.8 million speakers • 30% to 60% literacy

• Projected lasted 2 years • More than 60% of population listened daily

• Broadcast removed from air after 2 years• Locals protested (both believers and non-believers)

• TWR team placed Audio Bible program back on the air

Pilot in Pilot in GhanaGhana

“TWR has been able to put a blanket of the Gospel in many parts of the world that no one else could reach.”

-- Dr. Billy Graham, Evangelist and TWR Broadcaster

“We greet you from all of the Uzbek listeners. We listen to your programs with great interest and satisfaction.” -- Uzbek listener

“I am really happy and encouraged to have such a program broadcast to me and others who are thirsty for the Word of God and have no other way to listen to it.”

-- North Africa

What they are saying about TWR and What they are saying about TWR and The Radio The Radio BibleBible

“Reading the Bible is very difficult for me as I am illiterate. I thank God very much because He has provided me the radio. Now I know more about God’s Word and am growing spiritually. May God bless your hard work.”

-- China

“We are glad that God’s Word can be sent through radio. We are His servants who live in a small village far from anywhere. Your programs help us a lot in gaining strength from God to serve Him more.” -- Indonesia“Could you please help me know how to become a Christian?”

-- Iraq

“The Radio Bible has helped me; I am illiterate. I have no more worries that I can’t read the Bible. I thank the brothers and sisters who contribute to this.” -- Chinese listener

Partnering to Bring God’s Word to Poor and

Illiterate People

Radio Bible ProjectRadio Bible Project