WP Update – February 2022

Just sharing with you a few of the many photographs (and videos) we received from our contacts in Africa, one of which is sister Mary, who has been faithful to distribute the Audio Bibles donated by our team in the several centers and schools for the blind in Kenya. It is encouraging to see how happy the people are for this precious, priceless gift, given to all of us by God, wherefore we are also happy to share with them.

Bless sister Mary for sharing these photos with us.
Sister Mary is the first from the left in this image. At the school for the blind in Machakos.
There was singing and dancing
Other recipients this month.
More recipients here. Thank the Lord for abundant supply of audio Bibles.

Remember to pray for these precious people, whose contact with information, in this age of super information, is only through audio. We pray that their hearts are warmed, their vision strengthened and their souls saved through the Words of our Father and His dear Son. I hope you also consider it a privilege to be part of WP team, no matter in what capacity or form – your prayers, your support or as a co-worker.

Other than that, this month we had the honor to edit and upload more than 100,000 pages – yes, the size of our website is up there – with the new updated interface, which is a beauty and also very functional – you should use it often and also share with your friends and acquaintances – just a suggestion, of course.

Some samples of the new design – remember Gabriel, our designer, in your prayers as he is trying a new life in Portugal.

Not least, here are some comments to our apps, which are most encouraging, as usual – except for a few discontent users that always want more…

Translated from Spanish:
"Excellent I was able to download the audios and listen to them offline and I can listen to the powerful word of God all the time I bless you all with the immense mercy of God very good many successes excellent great." MP
"Excelente pude bajar los audios y escucharlos sin conexion y puedo escuchar la poderosa palabra de dios todo el tiempo los bendigo a todos con la inmesa misericordia de dios muy buena muchos exitos excelente grandiosa"

Translated from French :

"It responds exactly to the support I needed in reading and listening to the word of God. God bless those who have worked to make the application see the light of day and be made available to the community."   CK
"Elle répond exactement à l'appui dont j'avais besoin en lecture et écoute de la parole de Dieu. Dieu bénisse ceux qui ont travaillé pour que l'application voit le jour et sois mise à la disposition de la communauté."

***

I really enjoy the Bible on audio. It's a very easy listening and able to follow each verse and chapter. Names that I cannot pronounce are done for me! I am truly blessed to have WP !! Thank you 🙏 NM

***

Translated from Portuguese :

"I thank the developers of this wonderful app for reading the gospel correctly and without those annoying ads God bless you all amen 🙏 a thousand stars for the app"   IB
"Agradeço aos desenvolvedores deste maguinifico app a leitura do evangelho correticima e sem aqueles anúncio irritantes Deus abençoe a todos vcs amém 🙏 mil estrelas pra o app"

***

I love this app because I have trouble reading small print. Now I can just listen to God's Word. I love that I can pause when I need to and start again where I left off. KT

_______________

And also, no small amount of emails were received at our email box – some with interesting and unexpected questions that we, honestly, do not really know what to answer:

Dear fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.  As I am launching a project of evangelisation, the use of your bible audio files in my youtube videos would be highly appreciated.  The project consists of producing biblical paintings in order to reach out to the art world with the Christian message. Thus, the process of painting will be recorded on video with the aim to link the corresponding audio files to the subject matter. As the finished paintings will be sold on a separate webpage in order to fund for the kingdom of God, I kindly ask for your agreement to use your audio files for the videos. There is going to be a strict separation between selling the artwork and preaching the gospel through creating fine art. If you need further information about my purpose do not hesitate to contact me. Many thanks in advance for your treatment. Best regards S.S.

***

I love this platform and use it daily. I just want to alert you to a broken link. I opened Deuteronomy. From that page, I chose Audio and got a 404 message, "page not found". When I went back to Google and chose the audio link from there it worked. Blessings SP

***

In the Lord, greetings. When I found out about your project, I was very happy. I, while preaching the gospel, I own a small Christian Bible shop. Please, in this project, if possible, I will also work. I want Telugu audio Bibles. Full details for me Inform. Thank you. In GOD. Bro. A.K.

***

Hello! Good Day! I'm Warner, a 16 years old author. I am very grateful I discovered this website! The Tagalog translation are really easy to understand, and it suits a teenager like myself. I also noticed that the translation is a public domain? I'm now writing my first biblical novel. It's historical fiction in genre, a story of a girl in the time of the Lord Jesus. I can't find a free bible online where I can use for my story. Do you mind if I use this website as my source? Your responds is highly appreciated. Thank you! WPJ

***

Hello, Praise the Lord, I'm Anmol a Software Developer from India, I myself am a believer of Christ and by the grace of God, I got this website when I was searching for a verse and I'm amazed to see that this site provides bible verses in many languages and with audio, God put an idea in my mind that I should create a mobile app, I'm a Flutter app developer that's a framework with which we can create both an Android and iOS app with a single codebase I would like to contribute with your vision to spread the word of God to all apple through a mobile app, I also have experience in the past with similar app audio streaming using flutter and NodeJS. Christ's believer. AST

***

Hello, thank you for great work! Please add speed controller to audio bible listening site. It would be very beneficial for many people to be able to slow down audio bible, let's say, to 0.75x speed. Kind regards,CF

***

Dear WordProject, Thank you for the audio bible collections in different languages. I am Kiswahili speaker. I am also a Masters student developing my thesis project on a Kiswahili Text-to-Speech system. Kiswahili language is a low-resource language since there is a limited available dataset. Building a Text-to-Speech system requires a lot of data for training and evaluation. I am therefore requesting you grant me to use the Kiswahili audio bible dataset to build the system. The dataset will require both audio and text. I will download the audio file chapterwise and assign it to the Bible section's corresponding text. Therefore, I will require about 5 Bible books. I will be much thankful if you will allow me. Thank you in advance for your kind consideration. KKR

***

Dear Worldproject. We’re Wehear app (link). Now we would like to ask for your permission to use the English version of the Bible from your website as an audiobook on our APP. Looking forward to your reply. L.
***
Hello, Could you allow me to upload audio Bibles on youtube for non-profit videos? I am a Christian pastor who has a Christian youtube channel and I would like my audience to listen to the bible.  I'll site the link and the source. Thanks for your help. TL

***

Great Bible.  Trying to learn the Russian language with it so I read it first in English and then read it in Russian. Yesterday was the first time I found it and it was in two columns and audio was available. Today it was presented English on top and Russian on bottom but NO audio available. I prefer this presentation but is it possible to have the audio of the Russian language? Thank you for creating this resource. SM

***

Thanks a lot for your ministry to rising the LORD CHRIST at this world. You have very aid for me. Thanksgiving to the LORD WHO sent you to us. TMR
_______________

As you may see, many people are engaged in doing their part in the promotion of the Word. We should not forget that we are at war — not the one you may be thinking about – which is concerning and needs our prayers too – but the kind that talks about in Ephesians 6:12 – “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places”.

________

See monthly online stats here