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Bible App for Kids resources in new languages!

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The Bible App for Kids helps children fall in love with God’s Word. With interactive stories and activities, kids can participate in a Bible experience all their own.

Together with our partner OneHope, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Bible App for Kids website in four new languages: Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian!

Now, parents and church leaders have even more resources to help kids learn about God’s Word.

Switching between languages is as easy as one, two, three!

  1. Visit bibleappforkids.com
  2. Tap the language icon (it’s on the far right of the menu bar)
  3. Select your preferred language

That’s it! Now you can access free parent guides, coloring sheets, curriculum for churches, and more in your selected language.

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YouVersion Podcasts are here.

Update: Podcasts were removed from YouVersion in December 2022. The podcasts listed below are still available in other apps. To continue listening, find them in your favorite podcast app.

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Ever read the Bible and feel like you aren’t “getting it”? Maybe you wish you had more historical context or you’re not sure how to process the difficult parts of Scripture.

With Podcasts, you can learn more about God’s Word with popular shows from our content partners—now right inside YouVersion.

Get started by checking out these episodes:

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What happens when you connect with God through His Word?

Bible for Everyone

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind…

ROMANS 12:2

Think about a time when you’ve felt your mind being renewed, seen some area of your life transformed. If you regularly allow Scripture to wash over you, reading or listening to it, no doubt you’ve experienced its power to inspire, encourage, and even convict you.

Now, more people than ever can enjoy that experience.

Thanks to the generosity of our Bible publishing and Bible society partners, the YouVersion app now offers nearly 2,500 Bible texts and 1,000 audio Bibles!

But, how different would our lives look if all the Bible versions that bring God’s Word to life for us … simply stopped existing? Almost a billion people still don’t have even one complete Bible version in their language.

And you can help.

Those same Bible partners are also working to empower people all over the world to translate Scripture into their own languages. And almost as soon as a new version is completed, it’s uploaded to a digital library, allowing us to share it with the entire YouVersion Community.

Imagine what’s possible.

With just a smartphone and a wireless signal, people who never had the Bible in their language before could access it instantly, from anywhere on earth. When you give to Bible for Everyone, you’re helping make this a reality.

Our Vision for 2033

95% of the global population
will have access to a full Bible

99.96% of the global population
will have access to a New Testament

100% of the global population will have
access to at least some portion of Scripture

We won’t stop until this work is finished.

God gave us His Son, and His Word. When we follow His example of giving generously, we draw closer to Him. And when more of us take part in this vision, the sooner we can get God’s Word to everyone.

Are you in?

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I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb… And they were shouting with a great roar, “Salvation comes from our God who sits on the throne and from the Lamb!”

REVELATION 7:9-10

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All contributions received through the Bible for Everyone campaign will be used exclusively for the purpose of Bible translation, and spread across different, high-impact translation projects. As each project is completed, any remaining funds are then applied toward the next translation project, as selected by YouVersion and its partners.

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Church Online Platform is joining YouVersion!

…to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith… - Ephesians 4:12-13

In 2007, Life.Church launched YouVersion to help people engage with God’s Word every day. In 2016, we updated our YouVersion Events feature to bring the power of the Bible App into your church services.

Even before we started YouVersion, in 2006 Life.Church created the very first church online experience, to reach people outside our physical church walls. When we saw how God moved through this technology, we began freely sharing our Church Online Platform to empower any church with the same ministry opportunity.

Recently, we began asking ourselves, “What Kingdom impact could we see if these two teams at Life.Church joined together as one?”

Youversion + Church Online Platform

Preparing for the future of Church.

We recently posted a video from YouVersion’s founder, Pastor Bobby Gruenewald, describing what we believe to be the future of church—an integrated digital and physical experience that people will participate in throughout their week. Combining these two digital ministry teams allows us to further equip the Church to engage with people from physical to digital experiences … and back again. Our goal is to provide the global Church with content and tools to create experiences that lead people into deeper intimacy with God every day of the week—not just on Sundays.

What does this mean for YouVersion, for Church Online Platform, and for you?

We have several new features already in development, with many additional projects in various planning stages. While we don’t have any specifics to share today, we invite you to dream with us: imagine one day in the near future where more YouVersion resources are inside of Church Online Platform, more Church Online Platform functionality is inside of YouVersion, and new digital tools will help bridge the ministry gap for this new hybrid church model. As we build this new functionality, YouVersion Events will continue to work as normal.

With this expanded vision, we’re also increasing our financial commitment, investing in even more resources for the global Church. And of course, through Open Network, Life.Church will continue providing the same ministry resources that we always have—and all for free—because we believe the local church is the hope of the world.

Dream with us about the future, and let’s bring God’s Kingdom to earth, together.

Would you pray with us that God continues to unite His people all over the world? May He guide and direct us all, equipping His Church to fulfill His will.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

EPHESIANS 3:20-21

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A Journey Through Luke & Acts

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All the believers were united in heart and mind… The apostles testified powerfully to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and God’s great blessing was upon them all.

ACTS 4:32-33

How Jesus and the Church tie the whole Bible together.

Even if you’re not familiar with the New Testament, you probably know that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (the Gospels) tell Jesus’ life story from the perspective of His disciples. The author of Luke also wrote Acts, structuring them as one continuous story. Luke covers Jesus’ life and ministry, then flows directly into the founding of the early Church in Acts.

Today, in a special partnership between YouVersion and BibleProject, we’re announcing A Journey Through Luke & Acts, an all-new video devotional that lets you experience these books together. Throughout the Plan, short narrative videos from BibleProject reveal how Jesus’ life and teachings fulfill Old Testament prophecies about the Savior—and ultimately bring together the overall narrative of the entire Bible.

Even better, A Journey Through Luke & Acts is available in over 20 languages, so you’ll be enjoying it together with other people from all over the world. Start A Journey through Luke & Acts below, and spread the word to all your friends about this exciting new Plan from BibleProject and YouVersion!

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