This past month we worked on improving the Portuguese audio on the Verse Selection. Using our improvised home studio – a wardrobe – we managed to re-record and improve the audio quality in the verses section: see sample here https://www.wordproject.org/bibles/verses/portuguese/19_creation_evolution.htm
Our recording ‘studio’ – yes it is a wardrobe.
Also, along other audio recording initiatives, we received Eddy, from Hong Kong, who is now equipped to start the recordings of the Cantonese audio Bible. We have been wrestling with some delays but finally it seems that it is starting to move in the right direction.
Consulting with Eddy and planning for audio recordings
From India, our friend Anil has sent the recordings of 3 books in Punjabi, Matthew, Mark and John. This is a very good effort to update the Punjabi Bible and we are thankful for those who have the vision to use their talents and skills to help broadcast the Word of God in their own language. Raj is also working on the Tamil audio.
The android and IOS applications are a great blessing to many and we are thankful for the developers, Konstantin, in Greece, and Hison, in Korea, who continue to give us assistance and invest their talent in improving this wonderful tool for sharing the Word with millions all over the world, through Mobile devices. One of those users, from France, sent this reaction to our Bible App:
Superbe ! Superbe ! Superbe ! Fantastique !!! Dieu vous bénisse d’avantage !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! J’ai pu enfin télécharger complètement l’application et elle est << Wouhaouu (Incroyable je veux dire)>>. Le souci que j’avais était du au fait que le réseau auquel mon téléphone était connecté n’était pas fixe (il balançait entre la 3G et la 4G MTN); mais après avoir fixé la connexion de mon portable uniquement en 3G, j’ai pu enfin … Trouver mon bonheur …
Auto-translated from French :
Superb! Superb! Superb! Fantastic !!! God bless you benefit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was finally able to completely download the application and is Wouhaouu << (Unbelievable I mean) >>. The concern I had was due to the fact that the network was connected my phone was not fixed (it swung between 3G and 4G MTN); but after fixing the connecting my laptop only on 3G, I could finally … Find My happiness …
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Thank God for enthusiastic users, who spare no words of appreciation for something that, indeed, we should all be very excited about.
Adjusting audio recording at Raj’s
Just at the closing of this month’s activities we received the surprise visit of Ling, a sister now based in Ningbo, who took the time between flights to come and visit with us. It has been many years, but we still remember the time when we first shared the message of Christ with her up on the mountains of Yunan. She is now active with her house church ministry and we were blessed to share a short but meaningful time with her. I Cor 3:6.
Donna with Ling at our home in ZH.
We have been exploring and experiencing on how to make our outreach in China more effective. We have made some adjustments to the reality of the Chinese internet – things do not work here the way they work everywhere else. For example, you cannot download apps from Google App Store because there is no direct access due to the so called greatwall filtering. Thus, we are offering a loophole in our site… you may download te APK file, the file that installs the APP, straight from our servers. Coincidence or not, this month traffic from China has surpassed any other country, with 22%. See below.
Get it (the APP) in China
22 % from China, 12% from India, 10% USA : Wordproject traffic in March.