[Coming Soon] A Kids Bible Read By Kids
Those of us with kids spend a good chunk of our time in the car. According to research, around 7 hours a week. That figure surprised me until I began crunching the numbers on all the back and forth between school, church, soccer practice, piano lessons, and the other excursions I undertake with my own kids each week.
On average, parents spend about 7 hours a week in a vehicle with their kids.
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As a parent, I’m eager to fill that time with good and beautiful experiences: good conversation and beautiful music, among other things. I’ve also longed to weave Scripture listening into those mini-van moments, but have found my own app, Dwell, to be less than ideal for my eight, six, and four-year olds.
Of course, I love Dwell, but my kids have a difficult time grasping the language of the ESV or NKJV. When we listen together I’ve noticed them tune out the adult narrators, assuming that “adult voices” equals “adult things.”
So for the last year, we’ve been asking ourselves a couple of questions:
1) Where can we find a version of the Bible that’s kid-friendly but also maintains fidelity to the original text?
2) And how can we keep kids engaged as they listen to it?
Today, we’re excited to announce our solution! We’re recording the International Children’s Bible (ICB) in kids’ voices. This will be the first-ever recording of the Bible narrated by children from all over the world.
We’ve partnered with the International Children’s Bible to create the first-ever recording of the Bible narrated by children from all over the world.
The ICB is an incredible resource for parents who want to immerse their kids in Scripture. Unlike many Bibles for kids, the ICB is a complete translation, based upon the original Hebrew and Greek and overseen by a team of trusted scholars, many of whom were involved with the NIV and NKJV. At the same time, it’s totally geared for children, translated at a third grade reading level, making it easier to understand, study, and memorize! And to hear the ICB actually narrated by children…it really brings the Scriptures to life!
We’re making great progress on the recording, and we’d like to introduce you to some of the newest kid voices coming to Dwell!*
*Kids’ names and faces have been changed to protect their privacy.
As wonderful as these five narrators are, we’re not stopping there! Our mission is to provide at least a dozen diverse and unique kids’ voices from all over the English speaking world. We’ll keep you posted as we find more!
Our hope is to have the New Testament released this holiday season; we’d love for it to be our gift to you, our subscribers! 🎁
As always, thanks for your continued support of Dwell! You make it possible for our small team to continue to bring projects like Dwell Kids to life. In the near future, parents, we’ll have a new resource in which to immerse our kids between piano and soccer practices (and beyond)!