New MP3-Style Audio Players Help Spread the Gospel
A new MP3-style audio player is being used as a communication tool to spread the Gospel to where missionaries cannot go and where people are illiterate.
A new MP3-style audio player is being used as a communication tool to spread the Gospel to where missionaries cannot go and where people are illiterate.
The MegaVoice audio player designed by former champion Australian sculler and snow skier Tom Treseder was developed specifically to broadcast the Bible to remote corners of the globe in any language. He said that in effect, the MegaVoice has been developed as the Bible on one single microchip.
“MegaVoice is as revolutionary as the Guttenberg press!” exclaimed Treseder, who is also a former state director of the Bible Society in Australia. “It’s a powerful tool to potentially communicate the Bible to the nearly three billion people—half the world's population—who are functionally illiterate.”
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In Australia, the Megavoice audio player has the support of two former federal politicians who are helping the Bible Society in Queensland raise funds to purchase 9,000 of the players to be sent to the Gulf States such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Treseder had set out to develop an audio player that would overcome the problems encountered in remote locations with traditional audio technology. The goal was to develop durable, low-cost, digital audio solutions for Christian evangelism in the developing world.
A unique feature about the player is that the message has been recorded onto the player and it cannot be erase by the user. Supporters of the audio player have also pointed out that the audio player will make the Gospel available to the 90 million people around the world who are blind and cannot read the Bible by themselves.
The Megavoice Messenger is about the size of a credit card and weighs under an ounce.
