Joshy Kurian

📲 Data with a Mission: What Digital Scripture Engagement Is Teaching Us Today

by Joshy Kurian
May 5, 2025May 9, 2025
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In this digital age, the question for missions is no longer “Should we go digital?” but “How effectively are we engaging?” Are individuals not only accessing Scripture online but also experiencing transformative interactions with it? These considerations are at the heart of our Digital Scripture Engagement campaigns, guiding how we utilize data to assess and enhance our outreach efforts.

Exploring Audio and Video Devices for Scripture Engagement

by Joshy Kurian
February 5, 2025May 9, 2025

In an increasingly digital world, accessing and engaging with Scripture has become more versatile than ever. Traditional print Bibles remain essential, but for many, audio and video devices provide an accessible, practical, and immersive way to experience God’s Word. Whether serving communities with low literacy rates, reaching remote locations, or supporting believers with disabilities, these devices bridge gaps and enable more people to hear and understand Scripture in their language.

The Word at Our Fingertips

by Joshy Kurian
November 2, 2022May 9, 2025

The Bible has the distinction of being translated and read in the largest number of languages across the world. Technology has come to the aid to present the Word to all people groups speaking diverse languages. The divine plan of God behind such developments can be understood when we examine the recent historical account. The technological advancements are making major contributions to the fulfillment of the last command and associated Bible translation activities. The relevance of technology in mission activities in the 21st century is highly significant. In order to share the gospel as well as for church activities, most churches and mission organizations are extensively using digital technology. In today’s digital world, social media serves as a powerful communication channel to reach out across the world with great speed. To present the Word to a larger group, digital media takes precedence in the present time. The emergence of the Apple store on 10 July 2008 and the Android market (Google Play store) on 22 October 2008 marked a paradigm shift in receiving the Word at our fingertips. Read More »The Word at Our Fingertips

Global Bible Apps

by Joshy Kurian
April 28, 2021May 9, 2025

God is limitless. Access to His Word, the Bible, should be too! The mission of Faith Comes By Hearing (FCBH) is to provide people everywhere with free access to God’s Word through Audio Bibles in every translated language.

The Global Bible App initiative makes the Word of God available to the worldwide community of Android smartphone users. The major focus is on people who are not connected to the internet. Global Bible Apps are designed and built by Faith Comes By Hearing using SIL’s Scripture App Builder tool for Android devices and contain the Bible text and audio in the language of preference. These standalone Bible Apps synchronize the text and audio in a “karaoke” style, enhancing the user experience.

LUMO Gospel Films

by Joshy Kurian
January 20, 2021May 9, 2025
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This is the story of Jesus. This is the story of hope for mankind.

This is the greatest story ever told.

The Lumo Project is a multi-language biblical film resource engaging us with the life of Jesus through the four New Testament Gospels. It presents four films – one for each Gospel account – where we could experience the story of Jesus and the world of First Century Palestine in which he lived. This full-length feature film about the life of Jesus takes the actual four individual Gospel text as its script, word for word, unedited. Five years in the making, this epic production has been critically acclaimed by leading religious scholars as a unique and highly authentic telling of the Jesus story. Narrated by leading British actor David Harewood (‘Homeland’, ‘Blood Diamond’, ‘Merchant of Venice’) it is based on the latest theological, historical and archaeological research. With specially constructed sets and the extraordinarily authentic villages and countryside of rural Morocco, it immerses the viewer in the world of first century Palestine, and also breaking the stereotypical tradition of a westernised Jesus and his life story and presents it as it really was 2000 years ago.