2015 - A Great Year!
The Lord has brought more languages over the past year, to reach the amazing number of 120. And during the 12 month period, 5.1 million Bible stories were down-loaded in all those languages. That brings our total downloads (from the start of BFC outreach) to over 30 million.
It seems like a lot of languages, yet estimates of how many languages exist in the world exceed six thousand.
It also seems like a lot of downloads (and we are thankful to God for each one), but the number of downloads is small compared to the number of children (2 billion) in the world today. To put it in perspective, 30 million is just over half of one percent of 2 billion. So we have much to do in reaching all the children of today’s world.
Eight of the languages from India are already in the top 40, (in terms of the number of people who use that language). This is also true of another 13 Asian languages. Please continue to pray that God will provide many more languages and many more downloads in 2016.
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Another outreach tool
This new glossy-page publication combines six BFC stories that bring the reader from the account of Creation - to the entrance of human sin - to the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus - to Heaven and the millennial Kingdom.
Top 40’ Downloads in 2015
Don't see mere numbers here
- see little fingers dancing on keyboards;
see little faces wreathed in smiles;
see little hearts letting in God's Light;
- and give God glory.
English 1,677,421
Spanish 1,312,027
Portuguese 614,409
Indonesian 281,432
French 196,811
Chinese Traditional 161,473
Dutch 128,741
Tagalog 125,355
Arabic 120,969
Chinese Simplified 36,411
Japanese 27,988
German 26,798
Romanian 26,544
Tamil 23,876
Telugu 23,814
Russian 23,142
Finnish 22,845
Hungarian 22,729
Hebrew 19,395
Vietnamese 19,027
Hindi 18,385
Polish 15,696
Bulgarian 15,543
Afrikaans 14,438
Ukrainian 14,127
Korean 11,705
Low German 7,638
Turkish 7,563
Thai 6,715
Estonian 6,196
Serbian 5,603
Albanian 5,335
Bengali 4,670
Icelandic 4,210
Hakha 3,988
Malayalam 3,971
Armenian 3,460
Malay 3,369
Malagasy 3,125
Swahili 2,856
Mission Fest Report
We have set up our display booth in Vancouver, Winnipeg and Edmonton, with Halifax coming up soon.
Our primary give-away is a 24 page booklet in which we combined our 6 main Bible stories. The whole history of the world, from Creation to Christ, is in this booklet. Our pagan society needs to see the whole story, including the origin and destructiveness of sin, along with God’s answer, which is Christ.
These booklets have been very popular, and we will have given away about 1,500 of them as we complete the Mission Fest events. They have led to a possible open door where a pastor wants to add them to his ministry of distributing ‘Our Daily Bread’ through Vancouver businesses. Please pray for this.
Our best contacts have been with other ministries at these events, and many of them will be using our website Bible stories and other resources in the future.
We also picked up over a dozen more potential languages. Praise the Lord for providing the funds for us to attend these Mission events.
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