The mission of Listen to Learn International is to strengthen the spiritual life and ministry of resource-poor, learning-disadvantaged church leaders around the world, by making audio Bible training in indigenous languages available to, accessible by and affordable for them.
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Listen to Learn News and Updates
School Update
Demand continues to outpace capacity presently with long-waiting lists of eager students. Highlights include: Kenya board approved the shift to more focused course-ending student evaluation. New school rules developed to define…
Translation Update
The unique innovation of Listen to Learn isn’t the great teachers or MP3 players through which they are heard (although they are critical elements of our program). The special contribution Listen to Learn makes is gathering a comprehensive…
Listen to Learn Institute and Knox Presbyterian Team Up
In downtown Toronto stands a historic and well known city landmark - the large home of the community of Christians who gather together as Knox Presbyterian Church. Established in 1820, Knox has been a dominant voice supporting both a faithful…
International Teams Canada Leadership Prepare for Africa Vision Trip
International Teams Canada CEO, Neil Ostrander; Chairman of the Board, Gerry Fowler; and Director of Development, Brian Carney, part of a team of 10, will visit four East African program sites, new potential refugee ministry sites, and Listen to…
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International Teams’ Involvement
Listen to Learn Institute International selects teaching from established international teachers and arranges for its translation into the indigenous languages of Rwanda, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda. Listen to Learn Institute aims to record a thousand hours of translated Bible teaching, covering all the elements of a typical Bible College curriculum. Recordings in 10 indigenous languages will be complete by mid-2009.
The translated recordings are distributed in different ways. The primary method is by organizing regional cohorts, or classes who share the same language. A cohort proceeds through eight modules of study, with the majority of the study being done individually via portable, solar-charged MP3 players that may be listened to at the student’s convenience.
Often rural African churches are led by lay-pastors who would love the opportunity for more Christian education but are too poor to pay for formal Bible school education. These rural pastor’s lives are filled with caring for their farms and families. Listen to Learn Institute puts a Bible school in their pockets. Pastors can listen to Christian teaching while tending their fields and cows.
In urban centres, churches organize classes of lay leaders to work their way through the audio teaching together. Listen to Learn Institute’s responsibility then, apart from supplying the translated audio, is to train those who lead these classes.
Quarterly seminars provide students with two days of personal interaction with mentors who encourage them, share in their learning experiences, and guide them in application and discipleship.