WP Progress – August

A month of trials and tests and a struggle to remain focused. Still, made progress in several fronts: We took weekly trips into China among other things to collect the Tamil recordings concluded this month. In fact we have reached the recording of the book of Job this week. From September we should be living closer to Raj and his family as we found an apartment that meets our needs and therefore we will be staying on that side of the border and dedicating more time to that field.

The rented apartment in Zhuhai

Meanwhile, the shipment of audio Bibles to Africa arrived in Nairobi and distribution has started. We have several main contacts who in turn will distribute the audio Bibles to individuals, according to their criteria. Those main contacts are people whom we met when we were there and in whom we bestow  a lot of trust, namely, Samuel, Paul, Grace, Pamela, Safari, Issac, Benjamin, Jack, Judith and Sserugo.

Packages of Audio Bibles arrived in Nairobi

Samuel has sent us the following pictures of individual who were blessed with the new Audio Bibles in Swahili, and Safari sent us the picture of his football team, which he manages in this predominantly Muslim area.

Audio Bibles gifts to Africa

Not least, the Cantonese audio narration has been greatly improved with a new narration granted to us by an online Chinese ministry. That is something we have been praying for  a long time and although we are still searching for a male narrator, the female narrator in this version does a very good job and quite pleasant to listen to.

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Super nice best /  Praise the lord / Very nice application! / God bless you / Love this audio Bible / It’s what I was looking for / The holy Bible is word of almighty God. This is true and effective / Nice app, God bless u all, Calist from Tanzania / Good / Great. Just what I was looking for. Offline + audio / I keep getting the message unfortunately word project has stopped working. / This application is excellent, be blessed. / best / Auto-translated from Indonesian – Nice /  God bless you all and your family. / Very Nice i liked this. And BEST BIBLE ON PHONE.ever. / I hear god s word daily / I like this app. It is helping me read the Bible in Portuguese. / good app / Auto-translated from Portuguese – Need to put voice options in Portuguese BR a Portuguese Portuguese both male voice and another female option and some incomplete audios although this does not prevent reading / Amazing thanks for making this app amazing.

Below two favorite emails received this past month:

  • To God be the Glory for the good online Holy Bible which has made life so wonderful to everybody. I have read SWAHILI BIBLE for more than a year now and it has changed my life since I can listen or read. In SWAHILI version I would like you to make a simple correction in (Isaya 45:1) there is a word written (name instead of nami) Thank you and God Bless you H.M.
  • To whom it may concern: Greetings in the Lord. My name is H.K, a M.div. candidate in Graduate School of Baekseok University in Seoul, Korea which follows reformed theology. At the same time, I am a producer, composer and guitarist in Korean jazz band “Tough Talk”. My team is a small group which consists of 4 musicians who compose and play instrumental music with christian world view. I’m writing to get your permission for using audio resource provided by “WordProject” in my upcoming track of which the theme is Matthew 13:13-17. It is an instrumental piece named “Eyes to Open” in which I add sound effect of flipping through pages of the Bible and I would like to embed audio bible source to make the theme remarkable. I ask for your assent to use your audio resource of Matthew 13:13. You may find how it would like to used if you listen to the sample track attached. Thank you for your time. I look forward to a favorable reply from you. Sincerely,H.K.

Alexa ranking August

 

Family update – August

By Donna

August flew by like the wind. Perhaps it was due to the fact that it rained 3 weeks out of 4, so our forecast of swimming and outdoor activities to enjoy the end of summer holidays was out the window! But God has been good to us and there is no need to complain. The rain did lower the heat level, it did not enter our house, no big typhoons and wind like last year, no serious flooding, and we are alive and well to tell the story!

August Macau skies

Many of us returned to school this month. Both Ben and Gloria resumed uni studies. Gloria was granted a monetary scholarship for her high academic achievements last year and she made the Dean’s List.  Jason has entered his 10th year and is currently studying, among other things, English, Portuguese, Algebra 2 and Biology. Guilherme has been studying for his upcoming law exam in September and little Isabel will be starting her kindergarten tomorrow! Teachers Mandy and Gabriel will be back in class this week. A high learning curve is forecast for this coming academic season!

Gloria, 5th from the left, receiving her award

Jo and Guilherme made a trip to Portugal, and were happy to spend time with Gui’s family in Seixal and Cristiana in Lisboa. It was a short visit but filled with fun days and great memories.

Cristiana and Joana – two sisters in Lisbon

Cristiana ventured to Morocco with her colleagues and was introduced to the culture there, including camel rides and culinary treats!

Cristiana in North Africa

This month was another birthday bonanza! 24 yr. old Joana started us off on the 2nd of August, 3 yr old Isabel followed close behind on the 3rd,  Jason checked in at 15 on the 23rd and Jorge’s birthday was on the 31st! We enjoyed every celebration of life, with Isabel definitely blowing out more candles per year than anyone on the birthday roster!

Jay’s Birthday

Jorge’s birthday (with Bel-Bel)