Nepal (MNN) — Imagine growing up in the heart of the Himalayas.
Visitors are an extreme rarity because your tiny village is only accessible by air. Few people can read, so tradition and legend dominate your thought pattern.
This is life in Mugu, Nepal. “If you were to ask these people who Jesus is, many of them would say, ‘I don’t know. Who is his father, or where does he live?’” Keys for Kids’ Greg Yoder says.
Keys for Kids’ partners, Good News Nepal, recently supplied dozens of audio Bibles to a handful of Christians in the region.
“It’s in the northwest center of Nepal, very hard to reach. There’s just one little airstrip that they (Good News Nepal) fly into, and then they walk to the little village,” Yoder says.
“The Mugu region happens to have a church there, but they didn’t have any resources.”
As the Good News Nepal team visited with a handful of Mugu villagers, “they were able to provide Storytellers to kids and teenagers,” Yoder continues.
“Now, the kids have something that they can not only know who Jesus is, but they can grow in their faith.”
Storytellers are solar-powered MP3 players with hours of Keys for Kids stories on them and a dramatized audio Bible in Nepali. More about that here.
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Even though these units were given to young people, they’re reaching the whole family. “Moms and dads are finally learning about God’s Word through the Storytellers because many of them can’t read,” Yoder says.
Now that you know, will you pray? “We can’t do anything without prayer partners,” Yoder says.
“Pray that God will provide the resources we need and safety for our partners on the ground, Good News Nepal. On top of that, you can support us. These units are not cheap. They’re about $35 each” to produce, Yoder adds.
Help Keys for Kids reach the next generation here.
Header image depicts a father and his children on the rooftop of their home in the Mugu district, Nepal. (Wikimedia Commons)
