I just got off the phone with Lee Sonius, our regional director for Sub-Saharan Africa in Accra, Ghana. He was updating me on a medical team that HCJB Global currently has on the ground there, and today they saw over 250 patients in a village near Accra. This is in alliance with a new strategic partner that has been focused for years on media work, but is now using health care as part of their efforts to reach people in Ghana. Karen and I will be there next month and will be able to see what God is doing through these efforts.
Here's the recent press release:
HCJB Global recently began a strategic partnership with Theovision International, a large mission organization that has been working in Accra, Ghana, for nearly 20 years. HCJB Global joined with the organization, specializing in recording audio New Testaments, because of its growing interest in radio, said Sub-Saharan Africa Executive Director Lee Sonius. “Audio Scriptures and radio go hand in hand,” he explained. “Theovision has just received three FM radio permits from the Ghana authorities for three different towns. We are committed to helping them get these stations on the air, and we want this to be accomplished in the coming years.”
The primary focus of Theovision, which also has offices in Nigeria and Kenya, is the recording of the New Testament in African languages. So far Theovision has completed recordings in 168 languages, covering 80 percent of the languages spoken in 28 countries.
“In the villages where the audio Scriptures are used in listening clubs, we will also help Theovision as they begin to provide community healthcare and development,” Sonius added. “This will be done mainly with a four-wheel-drive, mobile medical clinic that can access even the remotest areas of Ghana. We’re also looking at helping to provide clean water to villages, through wells with hand pumps.”
“In the villages where the audio Scriptures are used in listening clubs, we will also help Theovision as they begin to provide community healthcare and development,” Sonius added. “This will be done mainly with a four-wheel-drive, mobile medical clinic that can access even the remotest areas of Ghana. We’re also looking at helping to provide clean water to villages, through wells with hand pumps.”
Theovision’s ministry is important because “50 percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa is illiterate, so even if the Bible has been translated into a specific language, many of the speakers cannot read it,” he said.
