Mission Moroto Stories: Digital Bible Society
In late 2020 we were planning to head to Moroto Uganda for the first time. We taken over Mission Moroto on September 1, 2020 but due to COVID-19 we hadn’t been able to physically go there yet. Airports kept closing and flights kept cancelling. We finally went there in January of 2021 for a week and Rebekah came home and sold everything and booked her flight to move to Moroto permanently. Just before she left a friend told us about a place in our own Houston suburb called Digital Bible Society of Conroe. They make and sell audio Bibles and much much more. So, Rebekah, Mama Lisa, and Papa Matthew went and visited them just before Rebekah moved. We had such a wonderful time and caught a vision for bringing audio Bibles in Karamojong to the largely illiterate, non-English speaking, Karamojong people. Rebekah went to Moroto and Papa Matthew ordered some audio Bibles that he and Mama Lisa could bring to the mission. While the people of DBS (Digital Bible Society) were preparing the audio Bibles they had an idea, “Matthew, you have sermons that have been recorded as they were interpreted into Karamojong? Right? We will add those to the audio Bibles as well.” It was done and Papa Matthew and Mama Lisa brought the first audio Bibles in October 2021. We handed them out to some of our indigenous pastor friends to share in the villages. One of their sons, disabled by Cerebral Palsy, would take the audio Bible to Nakiloro Village and set it on a stump and play it loud and the people would gather to listen. Soon everyone in the villages were asking for audio Bibles. We were reaching into new and more villages and preaching the gospel and handing out the audio Bibles and it spread like wildfire. Eventually, we brought hundreds of these audio Bibles with as many as 70 of Papa Matthew’s sermons and the Bible in Karamojong, English, Ateso, Acholi, and Swahili. The impact is indescribable. We brought every child at Mission Moroto one and it was wonderful to see them walking around the mission with an audio Bible to their ear. We are always praying for more funds to order more of these Bibles and spread them all over Karamoja. www.missionmoroto.org #missionmorotostories