Where Are The Bibles?

5A

What About In Your Community?

1. What book promotion, distribution, and sales mechanisms already exist?
2. Do people in the language group know about the Bible translation?
3. Could a person in the language group find and get Scripture materials without much difficulty?
4. What would be the process for a person to acquire the following: Print Bible? Audio Bible (various formats)? What other Scripture products are available? (list all other Scripture based products and their various formats)?
5. Considering these things, how available is the Bible in print and digital forms?
6. What can you do to make the Bible and related products easier for people to know about and get hold of now, and be sure they remain available in the future?

Phones and Players

5B (no video)

Technology can change fast but not everyone has access to it in the same ways. Think about what different people have access to and how technology can be used well.

What kind of mobile phone coverage exists or is planned where the people you want to use the Bible live?

1. What percentage of people only have talk/text phones (non-internet enabled)? What percentage have smartphones?
2. How do people use phones? Only as phones? Also as media players, and/or web surfing devices?
3. In what ways are people currently using micro-SD cards and transferring files with Bluetooth to distribute media?
4. What efforts (if any) have been made to use these digital distribution channels?

People living in other places

6B (no video)

Whether seeking new opportunities or fleeing conflicts, huge numbers of people find themselves living away from their traditional homeland. Sometimes they are isolated, and at other times part of a diaspora community. Jesus himself spent his childhood as a refugee and many others in the Bible have this experience, including those in the early church who fled Jerusalem and took the gospel with them. How are people living away from their home community getting Bibles and other helpful materials?

Summary Question

1. Where do significant diaspora communities live outside the home area? (in the same country or different countries)
2. Are they aware of and do they have access to mother tongue Scripture materials?
3. How can Scripture be promoted among diaspora communities?
4. Which ministries working in the areas where diaspora populations live could be partnered with to distribute Scripture products?

What distribution strategy is needed for the diaspora people of this group?