Jorge:
Only 28 days in February but so many things happened in such a short time. Many ‘long’ hours have been invested in developing and improving WP website. One of the new features, just introduced, is the ‘Verse of the Day’. This is a very useful feature as with a copy and paste stroke we can send a different verse everyday to our friends and acquaintances, and of course read it ourselves. Every day the verse changes with the date and therefore a different verse will be available for 365 days of the year. This feature is nothing new and actually being offered by several online Bible sites. However, what is more unusual is the fact that we offer it in many languages – and that is where those many long hours went. For the moment we offer it in 12 languages, besides English. You may try it here:
https://www.wordproject.org/bibles/votd/
Just check and see what verse is there for you (us) today.
Coming down to the South has been a good break and it was suppose to be a short holiday. Indeed it was a break for our lungs, the air and the weather here is just fantastic. However, I have been more busy than before – mostly housekeeping. But the experience has been enriching: around us there are many people who are suffering, mostly from their ageing ailments. It is natural to try to add some years to physical life and some comfort and quality too. Life is beautiful but inevitably it has trials because, among so many other things, the decay brought by the “fall” (yes, Adam and Eve’s). Healing and renewal are the antidotes for decay – but, most of all, we have to learn to rely on GRACE – that capacity to be resilient and to endure, to go through, not eliminate, pain and suffering. We hope to contribute to this great effort, with our modest but sincere contribution, broadcasting the Word of God:
Our stats this month show that again: over 61,000 visitors per day, average, and almost 7 million page views for all our sites. We thank the Lord for that.
APP: Some comments at our Android APP, show that we are moving in the right direction in that field to:
“Best Bible application in the market! Both text and audio, night mode, continues listening, offline mode. The only problem is that it can not be played if the screen is locked/turned off. The Apple iOS users do NOT have this issue. People here reported this issue but seems like the developer do not give a care about it as he answered like “click on continues play and listen only in screen on mode“. [A.R.]
Our answer: ” Thank you for your suggestions. We are working on a new version of the APP that should solve that and a few other issues. Please, be patient and give us a little more time.”
Indeed, we are reaching a new phase in the development of the new APP and Phil, in Thailand, is doing a great job although long and laborious. Keep him in your prayers.
On the other hand, about the same APP, we received this month super comments like these:
– “Excellent application, use constantly to read and listen!” [..]
– “Excellent, exquisite work, and a most precious work, the best I’ve ever encountered.” […]
– “It’s the best application I like everything.” […]
– “Easy to use It is important to have you open the Word with listening to reading the Bible” [Y.M.]
On other news: Raj came back from India but we have not yet met. Certainly he left the 50 audio Bibles there… Meanwhile, we shipped 100 audio devices to Portugal. They should arrive there soon. Cristiana is in charge to pick them up and they will be waiting for distribution. As we go back to our base, and now that the factories are back into production, we should place our new orders for this year. Specifying and quantifying languages is the hardest part because it depends on how we going to get the machines shipped and delivered to the field. Thank you for your prayers.
