Growing roots and fruits
Greetings friends and family,
ROOTS: WE HAVE A HOME!
It is a great joy for us to share with you that we have moved into more appropriate housing. After living on the University of the Nations campus for 5 months, we as a family needed something different…and God knew that. We are now renting a unit in a housing complex right beside the campus where we volunteer. And God gave us great neighbors as well. God is so good!
FRUITS: BIBLE DISTRIBUTION APP (SHARE BIBLES) IS PUBLIC!
After almost 2 long years of building an app to record Bible distribution, we were finally able to make version 1.0 public. Here’s what people are saying…
“We used the app yesterday and it worked really well, love the fact that you can export data and actually see the numbers! Good job brother!”
– Johan (Bibles For Costa Rica)“God is awesome! We’re going to move forward more and more with the Word of God. I’m so pleased with your [app building] team!”
– Unknown user (comment originally in Portuguese language)“[The Share Bibles App is] awesome!!! We are so happy with it!! I know your team and this app will help us so much!!”
– YWAM Spain“I think it is a good tool to track Bible distribution. Thank you for all your hard work on this great tool!”
– Faith Comes By Hearing“This app is a game-changer!”
– End Bible Poverty Now
Here’s a brief video (click the image) that walks you through the app:
Download the app by clicking the appropriate icons:
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FRUITS: THAI SOURCEVIEW BIBLE GOING DIGITAL!
The Bible distribution ministry that we pioneered in Thailand distributes the Thai SourceView Bible. We had been distributing a portion of the Bible (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John & Acts). The cost of that Bible was $2USD each. In our desire to give the people of Thailand more Scripture and lower the costs of printing, Rob set out to design a mobile version of the Thai SourceView Bible.
This project has been one of the major focuses for us since we arrived in Kona and it is almost ready. Our current goal is to have it ready for a major YWAM event in Pattaya, Thailand September 1-8, 2018 (just 3 months from now).
Here are a couple images of what it will look like:
Our original goal was just to produce this in the Thai language. However, our leader got a hold of it and shared it with other leaders. Currently there are requests to get dozens of languages into this mobile version (English being one of them). When we have a finished product, we’ll share it with all of you.
FRUITS: MAJOR BIBLE DISTRIBUTION EVENT!
The large gathering of missionaries and local believers in Asia is happening in September in Thailand (as previously mentioned). At this week-long event there will be one day in which everyone will flood the city and do outreach. One of the outreaches that will be happening is Bible distribution home by home. I, Rob, have been tasked to coordinate that ministry for 1,000 participants.
The first main goal for our project is to raise the money to print the Thai Bibles. The goal is to print 100,000 gospels of Luke. Because we’re only printing the gospel of Luke, the cost goes down 75% (just $0.50USD/gospel). Each gospel will have the promo information on the front cover so that they can access the rest of the Thai SourceView Bible through their mobile device.
GOAL: $50,000USD = 100,000 gospel of Luke
(NOTE: For non-Canadian donations, please make a note that it’s for the
“Thai SourceView Bible YT2018” )
We hope that this update has encouraged you. We thank God for each one of you because your care, love and support (both practical and prayerful support) has made our transition sweet rather than bitter. May the Lord Jesus, King of all nations, receive the reward he deserves through our lives!