God’s Word is being shared and cherished among many languages and people groups around the world! Listen below to John 3:16 spoken in the native tongues of several people groups

“Our Manyatta [encampment] is bursting with God’s Word”!—the village chief told Pastor David, one day after our national partner delivered the audio Bibles you provided. Your gifts to “Audio Bibles – Where Most Needed” meant Pastor David, and Helen at TheoVision Kenya, could equip young leaders, pastors, and other church...

“We’re broadcasting the Bible in our Mixteco [language], thanks to the audio Bible you brought!” the national partner told Jim and Jamie Loker, ASM’s Latin America Directors.  After Jim’s latest trip re-visiting villages in southern Mexico, we heard more good news: several new low-wattage “community radio stations,” many operating informally...

What if the only Scriptures you could share were the ones you had hidden in your heart? In June, a young man reached out to ASM’s Bible Engagement Director, Dr. Tara Rye, with the request that she help teach Biblical storytelling to him and his wife. They live in a...

When you serve God and love people, sometimes God gives you a “holy moment.” Dara Vanden Bosch, ASM’s Compassionate Care Coordinator, explains. Click on the play button to hear the full story from Dara. Since the 2021 Mozambique Container had just arrived, thanks to your generosity, at the appropriate moment, Dara...

Wanda Maloy joined ASM in 1999 having moved to Michigan with her husband and two children in the late 90s. She had felt God leading her into some form of mission work and was eventually directed to ASM. Since then she has played a vital role in missions by coordinating...

How often do you suppose you’ve heard or read John 3:16? I was raised in a Christian family, and became a follower of Jesus at age 13.  If I calculate hearing or reading John 3:16 even once a month since then, it’s conceivable that I’ve heard the Truth of that...

Your prayers were answered! On 30 July the 40-foot container you helped send to Mozambique arrived safely, filled with much-needed audio recording and agricultural equipment, medical and humanitarian supplies. Despite some intense adventures with a winch and chain snapping while hoisting the already-unloaded 4-ton container off the truck, we praise...

Thank you so much. YOUR gifts to “Audio Bibles – Where Most Needed” helped send 101 audio Bibles to Hope Academy in Ethiopia. They are already making a beautiful difference in the lives of these precious orphans and refugee children from South Sudan.  Our friends who delivered these audio Bibles...

Jonathan Stoimenoff joined Audio Scripture Ministries (ASM) in October 2020 as Resource Department Coordinator.  With a background in audio production and experience in manufacturing, Jonathan brings unique expertise to ASM.  Since coming on board, Jonathan has been diligently preparing and sending audio Bibles to areas in need, and strengthening ministry...

Pain.  Loneliness.  Hopelessness.  Covered in the gloom of despair.  These were the daily realities Roda faced, with no end in sight.  When Dara Vanden Bosch, ASM Compassionate Care Coordinator, and her team first visited her, Roda was grateful for the blanket they provided, “so there will be something nice to...

“Can you imagine—not having the Psalms?!” Availability of the full Bible in audio is something God has been putting on the hearts of Jim and Jamie Loker, ASM’s Latin America Directors.  While the Old Testament (OT) in Spanish is available and may be understood by some, heart language translations of...

That isn’t a typo and YES you did read that right.   Of course, there really isn’t a “g” in the spelling of the word partnership, at least not in its English spelling!  Yet, there is a “g” in partnerships at Audio Scripture Ministries (ASM) because the ‘“g” represents Gospel Partnerships.  ASM...

“This will make it easier for me to share about Jesus with others” one excited young leader exclaimed at a recent Bible storying training led by Dr. Tara Rye, ASM’s Bible Engagement Director. In April, Tara led two such training events. At First Baptist Church (Bellevue, NE), she had the...

What real difference can one hand-knitted hat make in someone’s life, you might wonder.  The 3 or 4 hours you invested in knitting each hat, choosing just the right yarn and pattern, praying for the person who will wear it, is making a difference in Mozambique.  “People here in rural...

“Not a day goes by that we don’t use something that came in the last container,” is a statement often said by Chad and Dara Vanden Bosch. Only God knew how crucial the 2019 Container would be for the Vanden Bosch’s continued ministry in Mozambique, as the pandemic shut down...

For the average family in central Mozambique, it has been a painful start to 2021. Two back-to-back cyclones in January brought 10-15 inches of sudden rain. Because 90% of the community are subsistence farmers, living off whatever they can grow in an acre or so, this was devastating. As Chad...

Tara Rye began serving with ASM in December 2020 as Bible Engagement Director. She holds a doctorate in Educational Ministry and has served in many contexts, from her own home in Nebraska to international training seminars. Along with her husband Greg and their two adult children, Tara loves to share...

In many Oaxacan villages in Mexico, the TV and entertainment are not in the local language. So, an audio Bible in the village’s language opens incredible doors for evangelism and discipleship, as people listen to the Good News in the words their heart can best understand. Imagine: a knock on...

You’ve likely seen the statement, “The worst purchase I made in 2020 was a calendar day planner!” 2020 was, and 2021 is, a year of surrender—surrendering our routines, plans, and comforts. Trusting, adjusting, and planning for the unknown. Many of us are ready to go on vacation, go out to...

Why Send Art Supplies to Mozambique? A few years ago, after many challenges in Mozambique, an adoption that was making us feel “trapped” (within a small radius in a foreign land with a small support system), someone said to me, “Dara, go back to your younger self. Who were you...

It’s about people. Stepping into the midst of heart-wrenching stories of extreme poverty, abuse, alcoholism, and spiritual bondage—with the hope of Jesus Christ. Serving, learning, training, equipping and investing in people. This model of evangelism and discipleship isn’t always the easiest way to do mission, but Chad and Dara Vanden...

ASM Latin America Directors Jim and Jamie Loker have been serving Jesus as “partners in reaching the unreached” and under-reached since 1986. Their residence has shifted from Guatemala to Oaxaca (Mexico), and now to Holland (Michigan). In 2020, God creatively intersected the three. During the travel restrictions, Jim and Jamie...

Our 2020 theme verse was: “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.” Isaiah 54:2 (NIV) 2020—with all of it’s twists and turns, disappointments and surprises—wasn’t a surprise to God. I praise God that throughout a difficult...

Mozambique is considered one of the poorest countries in the world (usatoday.com), a situation compounded by social and political upheavel.  “Wars and rumors of war” (Matthew 24) can be a daily reality for many Mozambicans. Our Compassionate Care (CC) Team is on the front lines of serving the critically ill and...

Your gifts are helping provide audio Bibles for young Christian believers who are being persecuted for their faith in one village of Oaxaca, Mexico! Before the global health pandemic, people in the Zapotec village of Santa Cruz were jailed as a way to discourage them from attending church services in...

As ASM Africa Director Chad Vanden Bosch stood waiting along a hot, dusty stretch of road in central Mozambique, a well-used bus slowed to a crawl, as its brakes loudly protested. A hand holding a small bubble-wrapped package was thrust out the door. This little package, which had been hand-carried...

Photo by Josh Hild on Unsplash “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.” Isaiah 54:2 My family did a lot of camping when I was a child. To this day, I don’t know how my parents...

“Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will act” (Psalm 37:5, ESV) is one of Estêvão (Steve) Macambaco’s favorite Bible verses.  Steve says this verse is an important reminder that God is our Provider: “We need to give everything to God and have confidence that He...

“God is in heaven and you are His angels,” a patient told ASM’s Mozambique Compassionate Care Team.  As hospitals in the region prepared for the spread of COVID-19 earlier this year, unfortunately, some basic health care needs were not met.  Fernando, a young teacher, had called the Compassionate Care Team...