Program areas at Faith Comes By Hearing
Faith Comes By hearing(fcbh) bible engagement programs worldwide: for the fiscal year ended march 31, 2023, Hosanna began 141,021 new listening projects in over 80 countries, with approximately 12,691,880 new listeners Hearing the entire new testament in their indigenous language. Each church or group was given a free audio new testament in their indigenous tongue and listened at least once a week for 30 minutes. Some 114,825 of these groups received proclaimer units. The proclaimer is a dedicated audio player containing a dramatized recording of the new testament in a translated indigenous language. With no moving parts to the playback mechanism, it is practically indestructible, and plays for hours at a time. It can run on rechargeable batteries, solar power, hand-crank or ac adapter.
Deaf bible society grants: in many cultures the deaf are ostracized, recordings in-process at year-end. Hidden away, denied access to school, and difficult to reach. Less than one-fifth of all deaf people in poor nations receive any education. Even for those who can read, written text is a second language. Their heart language is sign language. There are more than 400 sign languages in use around the world. Each has their own system of gestures and expressions, including american sign language, which is as different from english as any other foreign language. Faith come By Hearing began providing the bible in video to the deaf community By developing and launching the first deaf bible app available through use of smartphones, video phones, or computers. Since the inception of the deaf bible app, there are now 19 sign languages available on the app.
Fcbh new testament recordings: during the year ended march 31, 2023, 251 audio recordings were completed with 160 new languages, bringing the total number of languages with a complete audio new testament to 1,785 languages spoken in 190 countries By over 7.0 billion people. Hosanna also had 91 recordings in final mastering and editing, and 57 recordings inprocess at yearend.