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George is one of those 1.8 million Americans.

As the senior pastor of his church, George was someone who many in the community came to for guidance and support during difficult times. For those in the hospital or too sick to read the Bible on their own, he would sit and read to them for hours. As the years went on, he found that this became more and more difficult.

In 2003, George was diagnosed with Macular Degeneration. He tried to continue reading his Bible to others and preparing Sunday messages, like he had done for so many years, but it became too painful as he would develop headaches from trying to focus on the words.

Realizing he couldn’t continue his role as a pastor, George struggled, like so many others, with what the future held for him. He spent hours on his knees praying that God would guide him and give him the strength to keep fighting thoughts of depression.

He would often sing his favorite hymns and quote his favorite scriptures. George tells us, “I love to shout Psalm 28:7 every time I feel down and defeated.”

“The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.”
The church members knew that not being able to read the Bible was extremely painful for George – even more than any physical pain he had, so they presented him with a Bible on audio compact discs. George was grateful for the gift.

His joy soon diminished, however, as he found it difficult to keep up with so many CDs. He couldn’t read which books of the Bible were on which discs, and many of the discs were starting to skip as a result of him shuffling them around so much. The church members had never realized just how hard it was for someone without sight to read or listen to the Bible.

That’s when Ruth, a member from George’s church, found Audio Bibles for the Blind on the internet. Ruth began to read everything she could on the website to educate herself with all the different options available to help the print disabled read the Bible.

As we spoke with Ruth on the phone, she told us, “I never even stopped to think about how someone who was blind reads the Bible. Not until we knew someone and tried to help, did we realize just how difficult it was!”

Today, George uses his new Audio Bible every day. What George really likes about his Audio Bible is that he can sit with others and read God’s Word to them once again!

George, Ruth, and the other members of that small church know just how valuable an Audio Bible is to someone who needs to hear God’s Word. They also understand that we cannot produce Audio Bibles and place them into the hands of those who need them unless people support Audio Bibles for the Blind. It is the generous donations from our partners that allow us to give away thousands of Audio Bibles each year.

But there are still thousands of people throughout America and around the world who are waiting for the opportunity to read their Bible again. And that number will continue to grow as the number of people with AMD is estimated to reach 2.95 million in 2020.

Won’t you please consider sending a generous gift today? Your gift will be greatly appreciated and will be a tremendous blessing to someone like George.  Thank you in advance for your support.

Lula was born in the United States of America, but had moved with her family to her father’s small hometown of Kalamata in Greece.  Four years after the move, World War II erupted and the effects of war reached beyond the battlefield to touch the life of this fifteen-year-old girl.

With no money and only raisins and figs left by the previous tenant for food, Lula and her family had to either grow or manufacture everything they needed to survive. Her father planted crops and kept goats for milk. They had no refrigeration, so the pork meat from the pigs they raised had to be preserved in jars of oil. Her mother took apart old sweaters they had brought from the States and turned umbrella spokes into knitting needles so the material could be re-knit into sizes that fit. Lula and her sister made their own shoes from cardboard and braided strips of bamboo.  Lula by herself hauled water from three miles away in ceramic jugs which she carried on her shoulders.

Any time not spent laboring and learning to improvise to meet basic needs, was drawn out in boredom. With only one magazine she brought from the States to occupy her time, Lula memorized every sentence. Cold evenings were spent huddled around a single kettle for warmth since they had no heat or electricity. Once the light of day faded into night the family retired to their beds for lack of anything else to do. Their only recreation was going to church where Lula occupied her mind with memorizing scripture.

Five years had gone by and Lulu was grateful to have survived frequent bombings and to have escaped the imprisonment she would have faced had she been betrayed as an American to the Germans who raided their village for supplies.  Soon she found work as an interpreter with the United Nations and there experienced one of the highlights of her life. While in Athens, she sat in a meeting and interpreted for General Eisenhower, as he spoke with her boss.  She was delighted to find him to be “a wonderful man” who spoke cordially to her.

Soon thereafter, Lula and her family were able to leave Greece and return to her hometown of Detroit, Michigan.  Amid exuberant friends and family, Lula knelt down on the pavement and kissed the ground, saying:

“Thank you, God, for allowing me to come back to my birthplace where I belong.”

Many years later, Lula became visually impaired when an infection developed in her right eye following cataract surgery. Sadly, she lost sight in that eye the following day.  Combined with the macular degeneration in her other eye, she was left visually impaired and unable to read her Bible.

Referred by her local library, Lula contacted Audio Bibles for the Blind and was able to get an entire Audio Bible loaded on a cartridge for use with her Digital Talking Book player. Audio Bibles for the Blind has nearly 25 different languages available for the library’s Digital Talking Book format, including Greek which we are providing for Lula along with an English version.

Lula is thrilled to not only have access to God’s Word again but in such an easy-to-use format as well.  Speaking on behalf of all those who have received Bibles from Audio Bibles for the Blind, Lula wants us to know “how much joy it brings us to be able to listen to the Bible when we are cooped up and don’t know what the future holds.”

Lula’s story may be unique but not her joy and gratitude.  We hear all the time from those who have suffered the loss of their vision and, in many cases, can’t afford an Audio Bible.  These grateful recipients are simply overjoyed to receive their own Bible from Audio Bibles for the Blind in a format they can easily use.

That’s why I feel hopeful asking you to offer your faithful, generous gift to Audio Bibles for the Blind.  Your gift will help place Bibles into peoples’ hands all around the globe.  Whatever you send will make an eternal difference in the lives of people living with visual impairment.

Will you send a generous gift of God’s healing, sustaining Word today?  Thank you for your interest and for your prayerful consideration.

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