When learning about the availability of free Audio Bibles for her visually impaired patients, a diabetes educator said, “This is wonderful! I had a patient just last week who was asking me if I knew where she could get an Audio Bible. She had lost her sight and she said the one thing she missed the most was being able to read her Bible. Can you please send me an Audio Bible to give to her? You don’t know what this will mean to her.”

It was a wonderful opportunity to be an exhibitor at the American Association of Diabetes Educators meeting in San Antonio, Texas with thousands of diabetes educators in attendance. Diabetes is the number one cause of new blindness in adults. More than 21 million people in the United States have diabetes. People with diabetes are 40 percent more likely to develop glaucoma and 60 percent more likely to develop cataracts. Medical experts say that the number of eye disease is expected to soar due to the diabetes epidemic. We continually receive requests for Audio Bibles from people who have lost their vision due to diabetes. When I got back to the office Monday and reviewed the many orders received at the conference, and saw the stack of additional orders that came in the morning mail, I wondered how we are going to be able to meet the ever growing demand. Without the help of our ministry partners, there is no way we can. We are deeply grateful in these difficult financial times for all those who are compassionately giving to help us put an Audio Bible into the hands and the Word of God into the hearts of those who can no longer see to read.