To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven:  “ Ecc 3:1”  Right now in Kenya it is the rainy season! Recently, it has been raining so intensely that shoddily made houses, walls, and buildings are collapsing, killing innocent people along the way. Roads are flooded, and at times people have had to depart from matatus (the local transport vans) through the windows when the vans get stuck in the deep swamps that accumulate in the inadequately constructed roads! Young entrepreneurs are cashing in during the crisis by ferrying pedestrians through the city streets for a small fee! Water and power shortages are the norm and temperatures have dropped . We are blessed to live in a usually dry compound, nevertheless, we and many homes around us still suffered flooding issues. Thankfully, we were at home at the time and able to sop up the water, thus sustaining only minimal damage to the floor. Join us in prayer that the rain does not exceed its limits or the crops will all be ruined and that will be bad news for the entire country.

Matato in flood road in Nairobi

Out in Limuro muddy road

We enjoyed a visit from Joseph, the Swahili narrator. He stopped by to record the verse section for the Wordproject audio section in Swahili. It was a pleasure to have him, and we were able to catch up as a few years have passed since we’ve worked together on the project. It also was happy to receive 5 samples of the new SR600 audio Bible device, which he took with him back to the coast. Samuel, from Trinity Fellowship, has also received 20 audio Bibles to take on his mission to Congo, where he is at the moment. There are also contacts to take audio Bibles to Mombasa. Morogoro, in Tanzania, and Nangololo in Mozambique. Thank you for your prayers for a courier or means to deliver audio Bibles to these areas.

Joseph recording Swahili Bible verses

Joseph (with Jason and Gloria) showing his new audio Bible

Samuel receives audio Bible

Although always more discreet and “behind the scenes”, the online work gives us a very strong sense of accomplishment, especially when we see, as through our online monitors, the great need being fulfilled with the distribution of text and audio bibles to the whole world. Recently we have noticed increasing traffic from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, for example, where the majority of the people are Muslims and where, of course, Bibles are not available for sale. On the other hand, we also noticed increasing traffic from countries such as Germany and Sweden, and after a close look at the reports we verify that the contents being downloaded and pages accessed are in large part in Arabic, Farsi, Turkish and other Middle East languages. We find this very fascinating and, again, our sense of mission towards this world in constant change is renewed. Recently we heard the President of Portugal saying on TV, when asked what would he take in a backpack if he (hypothetically) would be a refugee – in his TV statement, part of a campaign towards more sympathy and support for refugees in Europe, among other things that he considers essential, he mentioned he would take a Bible. (http://observador.pt/2016/04/06/marcelo-levaria-na-mala-presidente-apoia-campanha-sensibilizacao/)
Well, in line with the intents of this campaign,  we have been  providing free Bibles to those (including refugees) who do not have the money to buy, or most likely cannot find one easily available in the countries they live or come from.

Here are a few pictures of our online statistics to give you an idea of Wordproject’s outreach. Some of these are related to a certain time of the day, when the image was captured not the whole day, week or month.

Please clik to get detailed statistics from our 4 servers (interesting and will give you a brother idea of the size of this outreach):

Wordproject April : http://wordprolog.org/stats/wp_april2016.pdf

Wordpocket April: http://wordprolog.org/stats/wpocket_april.htm

Wordproaudio April: http://wordprolog.org/stats/wproaudio_april.htm

Wordprokids April: http://wordprolog.org/stats/wordprokids_april.htm