AUDIO CONTENT ON THE PLAYERS THAT YOU ORDER
- for orders from China: By default, there is no content on the players when they ship. However, the manufacturer will load the players with the content that you provide him with or give you the password to the players so that you can upload the content to the players yourself.
- for orders from distributors: Each distributor is free to handle this as they wish. If you provide the distributor with the content, they can load the players with your content or give you the password so that you can load the units yourself.
GOAL TO LICENSE FREE CONTENT (THE CHRISTIAN COMMONS / UNLOCKED CONTENT)
The audio Bible without useful audio content (audio files) is useless just as much as the audio content is useless without the content. With the Omega Audio Bible, we are making a step of progress towards solving the hardware side, but it’s important that we as a Christian community focus even more so on the audio content side.
Today, one of the big “bottle necks” in making the Gospel available to Unreached People Groups and Unengaged People Groups is the lack of freely available audio Bible translations. In some cases, audio Bible does not exist (or only small parts) and in other cases, the audio Bible files are not released by the owner of the copyrights.
It’s critical that the Christian community commits to working on license free audio Bible content or Bible content that is published under the Christian commons. To learn more about the Christian commons, read Tim Jore’s book: “The Christian Commons”: https://unfoldingword.org/tcc/
On this website, we plan to gather as many links as possible to other sites where you can find resources to audio files for Christian missions (i.e. Bible recordings in heart languages, oral Bible Stories, etc.), as well resources to help you with oral methodologies for discipling programs.
Note: if you know of (or are part of) an organization that you think should be included in this list, then please let us know at info@OmegaAudioBible.com
AUDIO CONTENT LINKS
https://www.info-bible.org/tables/liste.htm?table=niveau1
Note: please let know of any other sites that offer unlocked content and we’ll add the link on this website!
WEBSITES FOR RESOURCES
| ORGANIZATION | SIGNIFICANCE | WEB | WIKI | |
| Ethnologue | SIL International | lists all living languages, lists Bible translations in each language | www.ethnologue.com | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnologue |
| Operationworld.org | prayer guide to each country in the world | http://www.operationworld.org/ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_World | |
| Global Mapping Intl. (GMI) | databases for missions and church planting | http://www.gmi.org/about-us/our-history/ | N/A | |
| The Joshua Project (formerly part of AD2000) | U.S. Center of World Missions | highlights ethnic uups for church planting purposes | www.joshuaproject.net | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Project |
| PEOPLEGROUPS.ORG (imb.org) | IMB | research of UUPS | www.peoplegroups.org | |
| Global Research Center | IMB | http://public.imb.org/globalresearch/Pages/AboutUs.aspx | ||
| Issachar Initiative | maintains database and connects donors with “count for zero” organizations) | http://issacharinitiative.org/ |
WEBSITES THAT YOU MAY FIND USEFUL
Note: please let us know if you’d like us to add your website link or if you’d like to request a change on the information provided below.
| ORGANIZATION | WHAT THEY DO | WEBSITE |
| WEC Intern. | sending missionaries to indigenous and UPGs | http://www.wecinternational.org/ |
| LifeWords SGM (formerly Scripture Gift Mission and then as SGM Lifewords) | prepares and distributes Bible resources for target audiences | http://www.sgmlifewords.com/uk/ |
| Intern. Missionary Council (IMC; incorp. into WCC in 1961) | became part of WCC together with Life/Word and Faith/Order | N/A |
| Global Recordings Network (GRN; formerly “Gospel Recordings”) | huge resource of audio recordings | http://globalrecordings.net/en/ |
| New Tribes Mission (NTM) | sends missionaries to tribes that have never heard the Gospel (oral learners) | https://usa.ntm.org/about/our-heritage |
| Wycliffe Bible Translators (in 1991 Wycliffe Intl. and 2011 Wycliffe Global Alliance) | translating and distributing the Bible | https://www.wycliffe.net/en/ |
| United Bible Societies | works with national Bible societies to translate the Bible and distribute resources | http://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org/ |
| Every Home For Christ (EHFC) | sends missionaries to bring the Gospel to every home and plants churches | http://www.ehc.org/ |
| Trans World Radio (TWR) | mass media for Christ (radio, internet, etc.) | www.TWR.org |
| OC International (One Challenge) | research and training to indigenous church leaders for effective missions | http://www.onechallenge.org/about-2/ |
| World Council of Churches | world-wide fellowship of churches, incl. mainline and evangl. protestant churches and pentecostals | https://www.oikoumene.org/en/ |
| Voice of Peace (VOP) | first cassette ministry; now predominantly products radio and TV content in Thailand | http://www.voiceofpeace.org/main/?p=1133&lang=en |
| Audio Scripture Ministries (ASM – formerly “Portable Recording Min.”) | records and distributes audio Bibles | http://asmtoday.org/ |
| ASM | http://asmtoday.org/ | |
| The Spoken Word of God (SWOG) | radio minstry; recording and distribution of audio Bibles | http://spokenwordofgod.org/ |
| Faith comes by hearing (formerly “Hasanna”) | recordings in heart-languages, discipleship programs and distribution of audio Bibles | https://www.faithcomesbyhearing.com/ |
| Christian Aid Mission | first global organization assisting native missionaries; focused on reaching the unreached | http://www.christianaid.org/home/1/home.aspx |
| Jesus Film Project | distributes the “Jesus Film” in many heart languages of the world | http://www.jesusfilm.org/ |
| Pioneer Bible Translators | combines Bible translation ministries with church planting (McGavran) | https://www.pioneerbible.org/about |
| World Cassette Outreach of India | records and distributes audio Bibles primarily in India | http://wcoi.org/ |
| Mini-Bible College | offers a complete survey of the Bible and other teachings free of charge online | http://mbc.icm.org/ |
| Global Mapping Project (GMI) | sends missionaries to indigenous and UPGs | http://www.gmi.org/about-us/our-history/ |
| Scripture in Use (SIU) | training local, oral leaders through storytelling in unreached people groups | http://www.scripturesinuse.org/pages/about-us/ |
| E3 Partners (formerly “Global Missions Fellowship”) | sends missionaries to plant churches in unreached people groups | http://e3partners.org/about-us/ |
| Talking Bible (formerly Audio Scriptures Intern.) | records and distributes audio bibles | https://www.talkingbibles.org/ |
| Forum of Bible Agencies International | brings Bible agencies together for cooperation and sets standards of translation | http://www.forum-intl.org/about-us/history |
| The Seed Company (subsidiary of Wycliffe USA) | links donors with Bible translation projects by local people | https://theseedcompany.org/ |
| Renew Outreach | develops media presentation and development tools to spread the Gospel | http://www.renewoutreach.com/ |
| The God Story Project (TGSP) | creates DVDs and audio recordings of Bible stories in native languages | http://www.gods-story.org/ |
| Wordproject | royalty free online translations of the Bible; intial focus was China, now it’s global | www.wordproject.org |
| Table 71 | cooperative strategy centered on orality and Bible storying | http://www.table71.org/ |
| International Orality Network (ION; formerly Oral Bible Network OBN) | http://www.orality.net/ | |
| Story Runners | creates oral story translations | www.storyrunners.org |
| The Luke Partnership | http://www.lausanneworldpulse.com/themedarticles-php/993/08-2008 | |
| Story4All | Podcasts about church-planting progress amongst the oral, unreached people groups | http://story4all.com/aboutus.shtml |
| OneStory | representatives of Table 71 and ION strategically coordinating the reaching of the UPGs | http://onestory.org/partners/ywam/ |
| Simply the Story (STS) | http://simplythestory.org/oralbiblestories/ | |
| T4Global | creates audio teaching programs for oral and unreached people groups | https://t4global.org/ |
| Ethne 06 | http://www.ethne.net/history/global-ethne-gatherings/ethne-06 | |
| The Visual Story Network (VSM) | connects media ministries and focuses on strategic use of film in ministries | http://www.visualstorynetwork.org/page/in-the-beginning |
| Davar Partners | audio Scripture engagement programs in UPG’s | http://www.davarpartners.com/ |
| Every Tribe Every Nation | http://www.everytribeeverynation.org/charter | |
| Unleashed for the Unengaged (U4theU) (formerly | www.u4theu.com | |
| Renew Outreach | http:/// | |
| Rhema for the Nations | http://www.rhemaforthenations.com/ | |
| IMB (Orality Network) | https://orality.imb.org/events/ |