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IN AFRICA: Just after Christmas an EVBP was
hand delivered to Malawi to a very poor evangelist who we had first
met at Amsterdam. How poor? This pastor/evangelist contacted us
during the translation process of his language Chewa and Yao, two of
the five he committed to orchestrate. He asked, "We have located
paper, but could you send us some erasers?"
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Our God-provided courier, a Malawian
student at Wheaton, brought back pictures.
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The photos show the church, a "building" built of
branches supported and laid across poles for a sun shade. "Inside"
they show the elders laying their hands on the EV
backpack for a dedication ceremony.
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A letter just arrived a month later telling of the first use
of the Backpack. The pastor said "In the first four show
times we saw 4 then 7 then 3 then 11 come to Jesus."
Imagine, many are finding New Life, and they do not yet have
a God's Story version in their native tongue to show on the
player! Lord willing we plan to record Chewa in May and
deliver the finished version for use in Malawi and Zambia in July.
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One at a time the requests for EVBPs are
being filled. Each goes to an evangelist who walks or bicycles to
remote villages to deliver the Gospel. In spots
antagonistic to Christians, the small player can be unobtrusively
carried in to homes to show GS. In more open countries the PA
carried in the EVBP is used to amplify God's Story for large
crowds and for the evangelist to preach to hundreds, even thousands.
We have yet unfilled requests for over 500, not counting the
Nigerian project which is scheduled for 500 to start. Although
our primary focus is getting new languages produced, our hearts go out
to the evangelists who wait for these EVBPs
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