“Think of the millions who never have heard,
One precious promise from God’s Holy Word.” ¹
You may recognize some of the hymns she composed, “More About Jesus Would I Know,” and “When We All Get To Heaven,” but her name may be less familiar. A contemporary of Fanny Crosby, Eliza E. Hewitt penned over 500 hymns, including the one above, “All Over the World.”
Your prayers and financial support of Audio Scripture Ministries (ASM) helps spread God’s Word all over the world, among people groups and in locations that just a few years ago were inaccessible to our Team.
God has led ASM to develop trusted partnerships in almost every region of the world so that His Word goes forward with boldness and generosity. Thank you for your commitment to sharing God’s Word—we can’t do it without you.
I’m excited to report that since the beginning of this fiscal year (October 2024), over 14,312 audio Bibles have been distributed to waiting listeners in places like Nigeria, South Sudan, South Asia (country names removed for security), Mexico, Kenya, Mozambique—and others. Praise God for every Gospel Partner!
Gospel Momentum 2030 means that together we’re pressing forward so that the name of Jesus is lifted high on the continents of Asia, Africa, South America, Europe, Oceania, and North America. We believe everyone has the right and the need to hear God’s Word in their own heart language, and you do too.
People like our new friends in Uganda (pictured, above left), a husband and wife who are blind themselves yet pastor a church and run a school for blind children. Not only are they listening to God’s Word, they’re sharing it with their congregation and the children God has entrusted to their care.
This friend from South Sudan (pictured, above middle) listens intently to God’s Word, finding comfort from Scripture in a war-torn region. Another partner in South Asia (pictured, right) shares God’s Word courageously in locations hostile to the Gospel with those who are eager to hear. Would you please pray with us for these partners, and those who are hearing “precious promise from God’s Holy Word” that they would “… live according to [God’s] Word (Psalms 119:9)?
The most recent statistics from The Joshua Project show that Gospel progress is being made, yet 42% of the world remains “unreached” and still waits to hear God’s Word. ²
What will it take to spread God’s Word all over the world? First, and most importantly, it will take you, and me, and all our friends praying earnestly for God to send more laborers into the harvest (Matthew 9:37-38). Would you join in prayer for those still waiting to hear? Then, prayerfully consider how God might expand your opportunities to share His Word.
Eliza Hewitt ends her hymn with the following:
“Oh, what a song shall in Heaven be sung!
By every nation and kindred and tongue;
Some may be there through our efforts and prayer,
Joy everlasting together we’ll share.” ³
Let’s pray, work, and give, so that the voices of the Gospel Redeemed from all over the world will join in praise to God! I can’t wait for that day to come!
¹ Eliza E. Hewitt, in Songs of Love and Praise No. 3, by John R. Sweney & William Kirkpatrick (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John J. Hood, 1896), page 134.
² The Joshua Project Status of World Evangelization, accessed 2 May 2025, www.joshuaproject.net.
³ See Footnote 1
