A creative new experience in using the Bible launches on New Year’s Day. Scripture Union’s WordLive website goes live.
The free resource will allow online users a wide range of creative approaches to God’s Word, including audio Bible passages, video clips, worship songs and prayer activities, as well as a daily Bible reading and reflection.
Known for its wide range of printed Bible reading guides, Scripture Union has developed its first digital Bible experience to make engagement with God’s Word easier and more accessible to more people.
Chief Executive Keith Civval reckons WordLive is probably Scripture Union’s most significant development for a generation.
‘Our vision is for every 21st century Christian to be engaging enthusiastically with the Bible and growing in their faith,’ says Keith. ‘WordLive engages with today’s generation, who live a lot of their lives online, so we’re meeting them where they are.’
WordLive
, a year in the making, is a response to a 36% growth in internet use in the past five years. Government statistics show that in Britain today 15 million households (61%) are connected to the internet, a rise of four million on 2002. And while three-quarters of users are under 50, almost 20% of over-65s surf the net. Many other people access the internet at school, in their office and in public libraries.
‘We believe WordLive will help to bring God’s Word alive across the generations,’ says Keith. ‘We’re able to give people access to whole range of multi-media ways into the Bible that we haven’t been able to do before in print.
‘The beauty of WordLive is the freedom to use a whole range of different approaches to the Bible, however, whenever and wherever you want to use them.’
WordLive
, designed for personal use but also usable by groups, enables people to sign up for a daily
WordLive email, or access WordLive through a mobile phone.
WordLive (www.wordlive.org) is updated every day with new notes, images, videos and audio, and it also boasts an extensive searchable archive of material.
Notes to Newsdesk:
1) For more information please contact Richard Wells in Scripture Union’s media team on 01908 856161 (office hours), 07905 223980 (mobile).
2) Also attached: Background piece on Scripture Union Bible reading.
3) Pictured: Keith Civval, Chief Executive Photo credit: Scripture Union
Also pictured: Screen shot of WordLive.
4) Scripture Union is an international mission movement working with churches in more than 140 countries to bring the good news of Jesus Christ to children, young people and families, and to encourage them to develop spiritually through the Bible and prayer.