Spring 2023 Prayer, Partnerships, and Progress Updates

Until I visited the Northern Kenyan desert in January, I’d never experienced such dry and dusty conditions. Four years with little or no rain. It was hard to imagine, until seeing it. Relief organizations say this is the worst regional drought in a decade. Villages move to follow water. Women...

A* and S*, a couple in Greater South Asia, are passionate about sharing God’s Word through stories, trained and mentored by Tara Rye (ASM Bible Engagement Director) and her husband, Greg. Now, A* and S* are training dozens of others in this region! One of this couple’s friends—Mrs. R* and...

So many people are hungry for the truth about God in the Bible. But what if they don’t read their own language? How can they learn and meditate on God’s Word? “We’re bringing you the best gift: we have God’s Word in your language,” a woman (pictured, left) from a...

Meet Luiz (pronounced “Luish,” pictured, below). He delivers coal in Mozambique to support his family. Two or three times every week, he bikes 80-100 miles round-trip to gather charcoal, deep in the bush, and sell it in the village to support his wife and children (including a newborn baby). When...

God’s Word produces a great harvest when it’s shared! This year, your prayer and financial support resulted in more people being equipped to share the Bible in AUDIO with others throughout their daily lives. For Ema (pictured, below), and her family along the coast of southern Mexico, listening to God’s...

Your support of ASM’s Compassionate Care (CC) Team serves rural Mozambican friends in physical need and leaves a lasting spiritual legacy. Led by Dara Vanden Bosch, the Team shares Jesus’ love on weekly visits to patients and their families. Listening, sharing God’s Word, singing, praying, and doing art together brings...

55 church leaders, from 45 different districts of one country in South Asia gathered recently with Dr. Tara Rye and her husband Greg to train in story-centric discipleship. They left eager and equipped to return to their church-planting teams with new tools to share God’s Word through oral Bible storytelling...

“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” 2 Corinthians 9:15 “Indescribable.” The Apostle Paul used the Greek word “anekdiēgētō” (don’t worry, I can’t pronounce it either!) in this verse to indicate a gift so wonderful and so inexpressible that words failed him. As believers, this “indescribable gift” of Jesus...

Praise God for every donor and volunteer, like you, who helps share God’s Word with those around them. Meet ASM Representative Don Lang, a retired engineer from central Oregon. Don began following Jesus when he was 13. He grew up in a Christian home, but in the first years of...

Sharing Jesus with friends and family can sometimes be intimidating. To address this, ASM Bible Engagement director Tara Rye has crafted dozens of Bible Engagement videos to help people share the Bible with others, in a natural storytelling way. Tara says, “Telling Bible stories can open doors that may not...

A new blanket. Regular visits. Prayer and medical care. Your support of ASM’s Compassionate Care (CC) Team in Mozambique is providing these things (and more) for people’s bodies AND souls, bringing practical help and spiritual hope to someone like Celestino (pictured above). Celestino was sleeping in his house, cold air...

“The first time you see a person’s face light up when they hear the Scriptures in their own language, THAT’S why we keep going back to Oaxaca,” said Ed (pictured, far left) recently. Ed, age 74, has been on six short-term mission trips to Mexico hosted by Jim and Jamie...

Prayer •‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎ASM’s next Global Day of Prayer and Fasting will be held on 14 October. Email pray@audioscripture.org for more information. •‎‏‏‎ ‎‎‏‏‎ ‎Pray for an abundant Gospel Harvest! Partnerships •‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎A new partnership dedicated to reaching a group of refugees in South Asia •‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎Potential of...

Fall is harvest time in this part of the world. Driving through Midwest backroads recently, my husband and I saw field after field being readied for an abundant harvest. Huge combines, windrowers, and things I really don’t know the names of, rumbled down roads and in fields. The Amish, using...

Sign up to pray with us so that all may hear God’s Word! www.audioscripture.org/pray PRAISE GOD FOR AN INCREASE IN: PRAYER •‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‎‎‎Hundreds of people praying for Gospel Partnerships and Gospel Progress using weekly and monthly prayer tools, and as part of 2 ASM Global Days of Prayer and...

Prayer coverage is essential for audio Bible recording projects! Your faithful prayers are absolutely essential because the enemy of the soul does not want to lose ground, and once God’s Word is unleashed in a new language, it is a powerful weapon!  As Pastor Hugo (from Albarradas, Mexico) said: “Receiving...

Your prayers and support are helping more people to BE IN THE WORD. One vivid picture of the change you’re bringing is the absolute joy of a beloved grandma such as Nyaduit (pictured, above), now able to listen to God’s Word regularly. When ASM Bible Engagement Director Tara Rye and...

Access to water is so important that ”springs of living water” is the very illustration Jesus used, when He promised His Spirit to those who believe in Him (John 7:37-39).  In June, ASM’s New Harvest Farm team celebrated a successful well drilling, providing fresh water to the farm, thanks to...

Go.  The word can be a stern command (“go away!”) or a joyful exclamation (“we’re going!”).   God reminds us frequently in His Holy Word of the importance of going in obedience to Him.  In fact, the word “go” or “going” appears thousands of times in Scripture.  A friend of mine...

“Everyone who follows Jesus, stay right there!” the witch doctor commanded. She still wanted ASM’s Compassionate Care (CC) Team to come and help care for her sick sister-in-law–but not to come too close. She later stated, angrily, that the demons have started leaving her and she’s having trouble “getting business”...

A 20-year-old studio mic, an antique Herman Miller chair, and a bookshelf were just three of the hundreds of items sold last week at ASM’s Warehouse Moving Sale. Thank you to everyone attending or volunteering who helped us raise almost $5,000 of the $15,000 needed to record the Old Testament...

Of Mexico’s 250+ spoken languages, 120 are spoken in Oaxaca state. Only 1 indigenous language of the 120 has the full Old Testament available! Your gifts will help record these books for thousands of Nahuatl people who do not yet read their heart language!

Alaska is considered by many to be America’s “last frontier” because of its vast untamed beauty. Yet like many states, the last frontier struggles with high prison recidivism. Alaska prison Chaplain Scott Thompson says more than two thirds of inmates in Alaska “are re-incarcerated within 3 years,” which he attributes...

A recent Zoom training session with 12 East African pastors proved that sometimes it feels like things just go wrong. Yet in the midst of it all, God had a plan. ASM’s Bible Engagement Director, Tara Rye was asked earlier this year by a Ugandan leader to teach local pastors...

At age 15, Edi Martinez began working with Jim and Jamie Loker in Mexico. Born and raised in Mitla, Oaxaca, Edi has a passion for bringing God’s Word to the many people groups of Mexico, in their own heart language. After joining the ASM Mexico team, Edi quickly learned recording...

Praise God for how your investment in Bible recording is expanding the spread of the Gospel—now through Bible videos dubbed in many indigenous languages of Mexico! Jim and Jamie Loker, ASM Latin America Directors, described how excited people were to freely receive these Bible videos by direct download to their...

“Lord, please help me to be generous,” is my prayer every day. I’ve found, maybe you have too, that praying to live generously is like asking God for patience.  Opportunities to live that prayer generously toward others come at the most “inconvenient” times! British evangelist and theologian John Wesley said,...

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The beginning of 2022 has been one of celebration for ASM’s Team in Mexico. Thanks to your prayers and support, several Bible recordings were completed including the dramatized New Testaments in Nuyoo and Ayautla, a Luke Video, Jesus Film, and Deditos films, as well as a few single (Bible) book...