Accepted!

When our key partners Faith Comes By Hearing started distributing Spanish Bible recordings among Quechua people in Bolivia, it was soon obvious that most of

them did not understand. So FCBH produced Quechua recordings for them.

One year later, church leaders reported that tremendous changes were taking place.

In every village it was the same story. People had enjoyed listening to the Spanish recordings, in groups of 25 – 30. But when the Quechua recordings arrived attendance

swelled to 85 – 115. Sometimes 90% of the village came to listen. Lives were transformed, drunkenness and domestic

violence used to be common but now ceased; families were reconciled and there was peace in their homes.

They didn’t only listen to the dramatised stories; whoever they identified with, they became that person. The story that had the most powerful impact was the one about the

woman with the haemorrhage in Mark 5. As Quechuas, they were used to being treated as dirty and backward. When they asked to use one of the city churches, people would say, “No, we don’t want dirty, filthy Quechuas sitting in our pews.”

As long as the Bible was only in Spanish, Quechuas thought God didn’t want to know them. But when they heard the Scriptures in their language, they began to wonder—perhaps they weren’t rejected…

An unclean woman sneaking through a respectable crowd to reach Jesus. Naturally, the Quechua women identified with her; they went too. When she reached out to

touch Jesus’ clothes, they did the same. Something happened inside her and something happened to them.

And when Jesus turned round and asked, “Who

touched my clothes?” they cried out in fear. So when Jesus asked, “Who touched my clothes?” they thought he would say, “You dirty, stinking Quechua, why did you touch me?” But instead he said, “Daughter, your faith has healed you.”

That just made them weep and they said, “My heart

hurts!” The Quechua leaders told them, “You're accepted!