As international aid agencies rush food, water and medicine to Haiti’s earthquake victims, a U.S. faith-based group is sending Bibles to Haitians in their hour of need.
Not any Bible. These are solar-powered audible Bibles that can broadcast the holy scriptures in Haitian Creole to 300 people at a time.
Called the “Proclaimer,” the audio Bible delivers “digital quality” and is designed for “poor and illiterate people,” the Faith Comes By Hearing group said. It added 600 of the devices were already on their way to Haiti.
The Albuquerque-based organization said it was responding to the Haitian crisis by “providing faith, hope and love through God’s Word in audio.”
Providing sectarian evangelism to a people struggling through enormous natural disaster – is not civilized disaster aid.
So let me get this straight. We can’t put enough food and medical supplies to keep people alive, and this group is using valuable space on electronic bibles?
They are welcome to send these things, but they should have to wait until the physical essentials are no longer in competition for cargo space.
– me -
Sounds like they’ve got their act together.
“We already have 600 Proclaimers on their way through our ministry partner, Convoy of Hope,” said Jon Wilke, Faith Comes By Hearing’s spokesperson.”
Convoy of Hope is committed to eliminating as much death and despair as it can in Haiti. With your help we’ve already distributed more than 350,000 meals”
“Our warehouse in Haiti had just been restocked with food and supplies before the earthquake,” says Donaldson. “That allowed us to begin meeting needs in Haiti immediately…”
Convoy of Hope has 1 million pounds of food and supplies currently headed to Haiti.”
RBG
The audio Bibles are a blessing.
FYI: I wrote a favorable mention of them and a refutation of atheist condemnations of them here:
Audio Bibles and Atheist Hypocrisy.
Meanwhile, atheists internet wide are taking umbrage at this while not bothering to note that FCBY is teamed up with another org and are supplying food for the body and soul.
For the past few years atheists worldwide have literally wasted enormous amounts of money during times of recession, war and poverty not in helping anyone in any material need but in order to purchase bus ads and billboards attempting to demonstrated just how clever they consider themselves to be; and now they want to become the charity police—please!