MicroBibles are the solution God provided to help us break through the five barriers which prevent access to the Word of God. The MicroSD card is smaller than your thumbnail, so government officials will find it very difficult to stop you from bringing one of them into their country. They can be played on MicroSD Card players, available worldwide.
And you don’t need access to the internet to read these Bibles. In fact, you don’t even have to know how to read! These Bibles read themselves to the person who receives them, in the language of their heart.
What is a MicroBible?
Technically speaking, a MicroBible is an SD Card to TF Card adapter, and a TF Card (usually 2 to 4 Gigabytes in size). We load it with a Bible that reads itself to the owners in their own language. Then we add the best Good News video and audio resources we can find. Each MicroBible is tailor-made to reach its audience with God’s Love as expressed by what Christ did for them.
However, MicroBibles are much, much more than the metal and plastic they are made of. They are even far more than the audio and video files within them.
When you dig deeper, this is what a MicroBible is:
God is doing some amazing things through Desert Springs Ministries! Yet, we want to be honest with you. It’s not about us… that is, our family. In reality, it’s about you. God uses wonderful people like you to bring His Word to the Nations through MicroBibles and Scripture translation.
One of the greatest illustrations of this reality is the story of how He used a wedding ring to get us back to Chad.
In a time of struggle
It was 2009. We were having a difficult time raising our support to return to Chad.
Since joining AGWM, our support budget had more than doubled. My fellow workers were finding it easy, but we just couldn’t let people know about our ministry like they could. Also, there were so many of us trying to get to the foreign field that year. And almost every pastor I called or visited was already supporting as many of God’s overseas laborers as they possibly could.
One afternoon, while I was out shopping for groceries, I got “THE phone call”. It was the support raising supervisor at Headquarters. He told me that, if something didn’t change in our budget soon, we couldn’t return to Chad.
Around the time of that call, I was scheduled to speak at a missions breakfast at Calvary Temple Assembly of God in Fall River, Massachusetts. We were all given five minutes to speak. When it was my turn, I poured out my heart about our struggle to get back to Chad to continue the work we had started in 1992.
A wedding ring and some change
When the missions banquet was over, a teenage girl and her Mom came up to me. They had been collecting pocket change in a large jar, and the jar was full. And they wanted us to have it.
And in response to the LORD’s prompting, the mother slipped her wedding ring into the jar.
I felt overwhelmed… and didn’t want to receive this gift! But they insisted, “This is meant to go towards your airfare.”
We definitely needed help with our airfare. It was going to cost about $5,000 for all of us to get back there.
At the time, we mentioned this wedding ring to you, my prayer warriors and supporters. Would anyone be willing to buy this ring to help us with our airfare? So, we planned on giving it to the highest bidder.
So, you began to pray. Bids and gifts began to pour in from everywhere. “Keep this, and use it to get back to Chad!”
Finally, the time period for receiving bids for the jarful of change and the ring was over. I contacted the winning bidder. “How would you like us to get this jar to you?,” I asked.
This family replied, “Please, keep the change and send the wedding ring back to the mother who gave it.”
And that’s what we did! We were so relieved.
But before the end of the story, God provided the funds for us to return to Chad… plus a bit more, which we would need for meals and other expenses along the way!
Thanks for all you do to bring the Gospel to your backyard, your nation and beyond, through your prayers and support of ministries like ours.
We load it with a Bible that reads itself to the owners in their own language. Then we add the best Good News video and audio resources we can find. Each MicroBible is tailor-made to reach its audience with God’s Love as expressed by what Christ did for them.
It’s not about us… that is, our family. In reality, it’s about you. God uses wonderful people like 
When the missions banquet was over, a teenage girl and her Mom came up to me. They had been collecting pocket change in a large jar, and the jar was full. And they wanted us to have it.