{"id":4199,"date":"2019-10-03T23:45:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T23:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2019-10-04T01:44:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T01:44:02","slug":"september-2019-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/?p=4199","title":{"rendered":"September 2019 – Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘…Because they have no changes therefore they fear not God’.\nPsalms 55:19<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The month of September was marked by our move across the\nborder. It was not a long distance move, however it is significant to our work.\nAs far as being practical, in terms of producing, ordering, shipping Audio Bibles,\nand many other aspects, it works great! All our production contacts are located\nhere. The companies are extremely efficient and get things done without much\nhassle and bureaucracy. Also, it is a better place for us to focus on language study:\nwe continue with our home study but refocus again on Chinese language. We thank\nGod for this open door, that is, the opportunity to live and work here once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our new area in China<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As to be expected, many things are different here, mostly for\nbetter. There are setbacks though:  the\ninternet being one of them. Google, Youtube and other international online\nservices do not work here, although there are ways to get around that filter.\nThankfully, all our sites are visible and access to all our servers, including Amazon,\nis not filtered, thus we have no major problems along that line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter where we are, there is a great calling for every\nChristian in this world – besides our personal battles, our family, our work,\nwe have the world around us: the conflicts that pop up everywhere, the natural\nand sometimes not natural disasters, the trends and fads that change minds and behavior\n– seldom for better and, now-a-days, the changes and concerns about the\nenvironment. For all this and much more we have to keep in prayer! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In local news, in recent days we have been having surrounded\nby the great celebrations of the 70 years of the PRC, that is, modern China,\nand we watched some amazing displays on TV. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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October 1st in Beijing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.koreus.com\/embed\/20000-choregraphes-nouvel-an-chinois-2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is amazing to us how disciplined and uniformed the\nChinese people can become in occasions like this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not least, we also celebrated the Chinese Mid Autumn Festival\na. k. a. Moon Festival, on the 15th moon day of the 8th Chinese Lunar month,\nbased on the Chinese lunar calendar. This festival has a long story, but in\nsummary, people are usually happy and celebrate it enthusiastically. We were\nable to go outside on Sept. 13, near the seaside, and enjoy the children, the\nlanterns, the moon and the moon-cakes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moon Cake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Moon Festival: Lanterns at local beach <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We worked hard on several WP fronts: 1. We have been contacted by a person in the Middle East, more precisely Cyprus, who offer us the use of the Hebrew Audio Bible. She has contacted and obtain permission from regional Bible Societies for us to use it on our site for non-profit, mission purposes. Also, she supplied us with a public domain version of the New Testament audio in Hungarian. Both of these are now available on our site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hebrew audio Bible now on WP site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hungarian New Testament audio now also available<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

2. Gloria, and Jason have worked on the Chinese text and audio synchronization aiming to prepare the upcoming APP, while  Anit and his brother Ajay, from India, have been working on the Hindi. We are getting there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Audio editor program to sync audio with text for upcoming APP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

3. We made a breakthrough contact with a Pastor in Pakistan, who requested to supply him with Urdu audio Bibles for his congregation, which includes several people who cannot read. We have prepared a special home-made edition of our SR600 in Urdu (we changed the audio language through  our own computers) and sent a package of 50 audio Bibles that should be arriving there as we write this. Praying for these to go through customs of this majority  Muslim country without any problems for the brothers there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is this? A forest of audio SR600 Bibles being prepared for Pakistan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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sr600: FREE audio Bible <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our new contacts in Pakistan. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We always receive many emails and comments on our site and Apps every month. This month we chose this as our favorite:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Went through other audio Bible apps.. Came back to this with a much healthier appreciation of this app! Thanks for providing the audio word of God, without distractions, and easy presentation.’ <\/em>RT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The home front is mainly back to school. Besides the home-schooling here, we have Gloria reporting very interesting and sometimes gory details of her course at medical school in Lisbon. The grandchildren are now starting to attend their first kindergarten and it is a new day. One more thing to pray for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gloria: enjoying medical school<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grandchildren: Bel Bel, of Emanuel and Mandy, back to school<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grandchildren: Zach, of Philip and Julie – first day to school<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A little thing is a little thing but sometimes they mean a lot. Raj, our faithful brother in Christ, is a specialist in preparing Indian tea, which we love very much. Here he is serving us his specialty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Raj: Some Indian Tea!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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