New KJV Bible Recording to be released 2007
Dr. Mims, a retired pastor, moved to the mountains of north Georgia to spend his retirement years. When he arrived, it did not take long for the Cornerstone Baptist Church, in Cherry Log, Georgia, to have him preach. They finally persuaded him to become their pastor, but gave him liberty to travel and write — and thankfully, use his great voice in making a fresh recording of the complete Bible.In early 2006 arrangements were made for Dr. Paul Mims (the mellow voice of the original KJV Bible) to come to the studios of the Spoken Word of God Ministries headquarters in Orlando, Florida, to make a new recording of the Bible. Over a period of 3 months the special recording sessions produced a brand new recording of the entire Bible.
Dr. Paul Mims recording the Bible
As Paul read at the microphone, a professional sound engineer (John Blanche Audio Productions) and as many as four to six “proofers” followed Paul's reading in Bibles from different publishing companies. Corrections were made on the fly. Paul’s wife, Janice — an English teacher — was the chief "proofer."
A real sense of victory and accomplishment was experienced after many days of hard work!!
The initial proof-version of the CD’s are then made from these recordings, and proofers read these, filling out corrections sheets (yes, there are corrections that even the on-site proofers often miss, too!). These corrections are sent to the sound engineers, and final-proofed again. At the manufacturing plant where the CD’s are transferred to the digital audio chips used in the Spoken Word Pocket Bibles, another proofing occurs, And then we proof the digital chip of the whole Bible before it is actually placed on the market!
This is quite a process, but worth the effort and expense when considering the fact that it is the Word of God we are making available to people all over the world!
We plan to place all 23 of our archived language narrations of Scripture on the Pocket Bibles as God provides. And as the Lord leads we will target broadcasts to specific countries of the 10/40 window.
We have already begun targeted broadcasts in Arabic to Iraq, and foresee that language being one of the first we will place on Pocket Bibles for distribution in Iraq and other Arabic speaking countries. Also, a faithful supporter has financed 500 of these Pocket Bibles in Telegu to use in India, so the Telegu language is also a top priority.
God willing, we would like, in this decade, to get the Word of God narrated in the major languages spoken in the countries of the 10/40 window, and begin broadcast projects in those countries until all have heard!
We are currently praying and working toward getting the Bible narrated into the Indonesian language. If you would like to partner with us in narrating the Word of God into a new language click here.