Faith Comes By Hearing

But it's really cool to meet someone who's involved in it.

But before we do that, So you are part of a ministry called Faith Comes by Hearing.

So why don't you, I was looking at your website this morning.

So why don't you just give us like a 36,000 foot view of what that, what you guys do, what it's all about and what you're trying to achieve.

Sure.

You bet.

So Faith Comes by Hearing was founded in 1972 by Jerry and Annette Jackson and They were missionaries.

They were in a school bus, a 1958 school bus, ministering to the Hopi and Navajo hippie communities of the 70s.

The goal of this podcast is to encourage current and future leaders in the Bible translation movement around the world, and we do that through conversations with current leaders who are willing to share their journey of following Jesus and serving in Bible translation.

So I'm thrilled today to welcome some dear friends, a husband and wife team, Swapna and Alex Mathew, who both currently serve with Faith Comes By Hearing.

Alex is the vice president of Oral Bible Translation, and Swapna is the global translation quality manager, and they're connecting from their, their office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with Faith Comes By Hearing.

So Swapna and Alex, thank you so much for joining today, and I'm delighted to have you both as a couple.

This is new for me to interview two together, but to have you both on the podcast today.

And it's a, it's a very heavy moment when I look back.

I was weighed down by this reality that we had the word of God which we were translating, but how do we get people to engage with it? And Alex took that very seriously, and I'm glad he did, and he started thinking about that.

And, uh, that is when he sought out the possibility of partnering with Faith Comes by Hearing to do a recording of our Gospel of Mark.