Resources We Use to Empower the Suffering Sudanese Church

Recognition Certificate for CRM from FCBH

Resources We Use to Empower the Suffering Sudanese Church

The picture's bottom plate may be tough to read, but in brief it recognizes CRM for the amount of money it used to purchase solar powered MP3 players from Faith Comes by Hearing (FCBH).  That group is based in Albuquerque, NM and has been instrumental in pulling together the New Testament in digital format in over 2,000 languages.  You can check out their work at www.bible.is.  

Since 2016, we have used over $50,000 to purchase such players not only from FCBH, but also groups like Talking Bibles and Renew World Outreach.  We utilize such digital resources because the illiteracy rate among Sudanese, women in particular, is very high.  This tool also enables people who have attended one of our training conferences to at least hear all the stories of the NT once they return home.  Of course it is also used by them to share the Word with their friends and neighbors and thus stimulate evangelism and help with discipleship.  

In Touch with Charles Stanley has been a very generous partner of ours.  They have donated 1,025 players thus far, and we are hopeful we will be granted hundreds more in the future.  Their players are not only loaded with the Bible in English, but also the NT in tribal languages.  They also place 36 messages by Dr. Stanley on the internal memory.  Sudanese pastors report listening to these messages have helped them become better preachers.  Many refer to Dr. Stanley as their mentor in ministry.

We also utilize other digital resources for our partners to use in their camps.  We have given out 7 battery powered video projectors made by Anker (Nebula Capsule).  When its battery is fully charged, it can last up to 4 hours.  We load Gospel films on 16gb flash drives to be used with the projector.  The films include those produced by the Jesus Film Project, two films granted to us by the ministry of Bruce Marchiano, Acts and the Gospel of Matthew, and others.  Viewing such films helps those who are illiterate, and who have not been exposed to many movies or TV shows, to see the type of contexts in which Bible stories occurred.  We also loaded on to them the 1 hour 20 minute video of Nabeel Qureshi giving his testimony.  It is found on You Tube and is helpful to those who have left Islam.  

We have also begun to utilize the Light Stream sold by Renew World Outreach.  It is a 16gb device we can load here in the USA with films, digital Bibles and books.  It has a port for micro-SD cards and can download its contents onto one in just minutes.  The card can then be placed in a cell phone for viewing/reading/listening.  Folks can also stream its contents with their phone as it produces a signal only requiring the phone have internet capability.

We have also bought and loaded SD cards here in the USA, and carried them to the field loaded with the NT in up to 13 Sudanese languages.  These cards can also hold the same films.

Such resources are not cheap, but they are effective and only God knows how much fruit they have
produced for the Kingdom.    

Please help us purchase and provide more of these resources.  Visit www.calvaryroadministries.com and if God so leads, use the "Donate" button.  BTW, the cost of 1 MP3 player is $54, a video projector is $320, SD cards fully loaded cost $7 each and each Light Stream is $85.

David