Distribute the Spoken Word on Your Next Mission Trip

FREE SOLAR POWERED PLAYERS AVAILABLE TO CHURCHES FROM FAITH COMES BY HEARING

God’s Word is for every tribe, people, and tongue.

What is Faith Comes By Hearing?

Faith Comes By Hearing 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. To accomplish this enormous task, the Lord has assembled a group of committed leaders and dedicated servants of His Word to develop into a reality the vision of bringing His church together and making disciples.

Reaching poor and illiterate people from oral cultures with God’s Word requires unique strategies. Faith Comes By Hearing is based on the belief and evidence that oral cultures can more fully understand and live the Gospel when they hear the Word in their own language. Through FCBH listening programs, believers are discipled, churches are strengthened, new churches are planted, and new converts come to Christ.

Faith Comes By Hearing offers the world’s largest catalog of Audio Bibles to individuals and nations who hunger to hear. Currently, Faith Comes By Hearing offers 528 Audio Scripture recordings in 473 languages reaching more than 4.5 billion people in more than 154 countries.

Internationally, Faith Comes By Hearing works among people who have little or no resources, and limited or no education. These are the people who have, for generations, learned and shared information through community exchange.

Through national workers, the Faith Comes By Hearing program is introduced to churches and villages. Pastors and village leaders are asked to commit to listen through the New Testament with their people for at least 30 minutes a week, followed by a time of discussion. Once a group has journeyed through the New Testament together (listening and discussing), every member of the group is considered discipled. 

What is the Proclaimer?

The Proclaimer is a digital player dedicated to playing God’s Word in the local heart language. Here’s how it works:

• An installed microchip contains Scriptures in the heart language; the chip will not erase or wear out from frequent playing.
• The battery will play for 15 hours and can be recharged enough times to play the entire New Testament more than 1,000 times.
• The Proclaimer has a built-in generator and solar panel to charge the battery.
• The solar panel, in addition to charging the battery, will run the Proclaimer even without battery power as long as there is sunlight.
• The sound is digital quality and loud enough to be heard clearly by groups as large as 300.

The Proclaimer was developed primarily as a playback device for poor and illiterate people who may not have any other source to hear God’s Word. Our goal is to use the Proclaimer in the majority of our FCBH programs worldwide.

Distribution and Discipleship

The Faith Comes By Hearing program is introduced to churches and villages through national workers called colporteurs. “Colporteur” is a French word that literally means “a person who carries the Word of God.”

FCBH colporteurs are indigenous church workers who know the culture and language of the region. They oversee Faith Comes By Hearing programs in rural villages, communities, slums, and other hard to-reach areas. They travel on foot, bicycle, canoe, motorcycle, or by any other means available to reach these communities.

Colporteurs identify church or community leaders in villages to oversee listening programs. Participants listen to the pure Word of God in their heart language. Most are exposed to God’s Word in an understandable format for the first time in their lives.  After hearing Scripture in the mother tongue, they often exclaim,

“God speaks our language!”

By listening through the entire New Testament and participating in discussion groups, those involved with the program begin to internalize God’s truths. By offering God’s Word in an oral form and in the heart language, disciples of Christ are made.

How Can I Be Involved?

If you are planning an overseas mission trip it may be that your team qualifies to take some PROCLAIMERS in with you. Due to a donations to the program “Every Church, Every Village”, the devices will be shipped to you FREE of CHARGE. You are only asked to send in a report and pictures of the Proclaimer being used by the nationals. For more information about this ministry go to www.faithcomesbyhearing.com . To see if your project qualifies, send an email to SNutter@fcbhmail.com or call the Every Church Every Village coordinator at 1-800-545-6552.  Her name is Margaret Fisher.