This month we spent some time putting together the following videos for youtube. We are still experimenting in this area but the goal is to create content that blesses people with the Word, while walking them, or flying them (!) through scenery that is calm and pleasant, soothing to the mind and Spirit. I personally find nature relaxing and helpful in times of stress – I imagine how hard it is, for those who love nature, that for one reason or another, are not able to walk in natural environments (say due to sickness, rainy and stormy days, busy lifestyle, etc). Hopefully, as we gradually improve and diversify our content, we will reach some with the Word and render yet another service to our weary world.

While we do this, our webpages will continue to serve and bless many around the world. After a major setback with our wordplanet domain last month, we are bouncing back with a replacement: www.wordplanet.net. The interface is being improved but the old version is already there.

Below is the stats page for our IOS app. If I know how to read this well, of the 432 thousand times the app has been downloaded, around 61 thousand kept the app. I think that is fine. Let them keep it ans use it because it can only do them good. 🙂

As for the Android Apps (2) they bless around 30 thousand users, as you may see below:

The SR600 audio player is a blessing to those who have one, as we all know. We continue to receive words and videos of appreciation from several blind communities in Kenya. This month a communitee in Machakos sent the images and clip below.

While we are happy with our impact and outreach, if an average of 60 thousand visitors per day and 20 Terabytes of audio this month is considered, we are aware of our minimality when compared with the size and scale of the internet, which outputs kazillions of megabytes to a world starving for information and eager for input of all kinds. Never mind. We are here to be faithful. We thank you and Praise the Lord for your help and cooperation in reaching that goal.

Wordproject campervan allow us to move and live cheap and healthy lifestyle while on the road. Here we paid 12 Euros for 2 people for the night and enjoyed the peace of the country side and being close to the sea. We also met people who, for the most part, had time to talk. We gave an audio Bible to a couple staying right next to us in this campground. When we gave them the little box as a gift, the young lady said – ‘I already know what is inside’. I asked her: – ‘How do you know?’. She replied: – ‘I have been to your website…[long pause] it is written right there on the door of your autocaravan’. Cute.

Wordplanet.net – a different approach with the same purpose.

Above are three samples of our other site, Wordplanet. This site has been there for 16 years and also receives many visitors and has many permanent users, although not as many as Wordproject. This month we had an incidend, a rather sad incident. Somehow, the renewal fee for the domain Wordplanet.org did not get paid on time. The registrar, instead of waiting for us to renew it, or try to contact us through other means, since we did not see their notices sent by email (a strange thing we are still trying to figure out), they went ahead and sold the domain to someone else – guess who? You would think someone interested in spreading the Word, or a benign product of some kind. No so, they sold it to a gambling company, who obviously thinks they will benefit from the thousands of links already populated online from years of use. We hope they will be defeated and we are planing to protest this, but not before we move out all our domains from this unscrupulous registrar – by the way, initially this was a Christian business, which was later sold to this less idealistic company. This to say that we have to be alert and watch and pray daily. The good news is that we have another domain, wordplanet.net and that one is now being used for the same purpose,

3 websites, one goal: To spread the Word of God to the whole wide World.

To those who may question why we have several sites with the same content (the Holy Bible in different languages), I say that this is a drop in a bucket, in the vast sea that is the Internet. According to statistics there are over 40 million pornographic and gambling sites on the internet. Then, there are millions of idialogues, youtubers, debaters and booksellers of all kinds, trying to sell their worldviews, fake news, opinions and propaganda. If anything we should have many more sites and content publicizing the Good News, proclaiming the Salvation in Jesus Christ.
Thank you for being part of this effort.

Our shipment of Audio Bibles to Kenya and Uganda went well and after arrival in Nairobi, brother Samuel was faithful to distribute the devices to Mary of the Blind Association and to send the package to Uganda, which also arrived safe there.

We thank all those involved in this shipment, with financial support and also with prayers and their efforts, in Macau, China and Africa. Thank you and God bless you.

Above are records of the activity at our main website on the day of this report, August 4th. Several improvements and amendments were made this month to the site and also many corrctions reported by the field. This is a work in progress and each month the site is getting better and more accurate.

Production of SR600

“Only one life, it will soon be past, only what is done for Christ will last”.

Samuel, our dear long time friend who has been with us in the recordings of the Swahili Bible, took a trip to Congo to bring the Gospel to the region of Kisangani, in Eastern Congo. He took with him a gift of audio Bibles from Wordproject.  Among the many testimonies of people receiving the Gospel and the excitement of those who were blessed with the audio players, he mentioned that during the 36-hour bus ride he sat next to a young Congolese man with whom he shared the Gospel. At a certain point  he gave this young man an audio Bible, which he immediately plugged himself into and listened all the way through.  Samuel reported that the need for Audio Bibles is very great there, not only because Bibles are hard to find but also because audio Bibles make it possible for people who never learned to read to hear the Word of God.  Thank you for your prayers for greater supply.

Here are several pictures of Samuel’s trip that started in Nairobi, through Uganda and then into the eastern part of Congo on the way to Kisangani. This will also give you a glimpse of the conditions and the need in many areas in central Africa. (click picture to enlarge)

This month we were blessed with increased communication from India. We were contacted by Anil, in Chandigar, offering to record our verse section in Hindi and Punjabi. We arranged for a financial reward to help with his daughter’s education and the project went ahead. We are happy to announce that as a result we have a new verse narration of the Hindi Bible Verses Selection a sample thereof you may find  HERE and also the same for the Punjabi language, which you may find HERE. We are also honored and blessed to share the picture of Anil and his precious family, and we invite you to pray for them and also for the Word of God being heard and changing hearts in India.

The Dhaliwal family in India

Dhaliwal’s family daughter, Hephzibah – her voice is on the Hindi narration.