Online community hosts Bible reading event to celebrate KJV anniversary
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
EDMOND, OK (ANS) -- In honor of the 400th Anniversary of the King James Version Bible, YouVersion is organizing the largest and fastest Bible-reading event in history. YouVersion is asking for individuals to participate in reading an assigned portion of the KJV Bible during a 6 minute 40 second time-frame, or 400 seconds total, beginning at 12:00 p.m. EST on May 2.
Anyone interested in participating can sign up on http://www.youversion.com/kjv400.
“We’re celebrating history by making history,” said Bobby Gruenewald, Innovation leader at Lifechurch.tv, creators of YouVersion. “Access to the Bible was greatly increased with the King James Version. Now, 400 years later, people are still being influenced by this translation.”
According to a news release from A. Larry Ross Communications (www.alarryross.com), on the day of the event, participants are invited to read their passages out loud, share photos and posts on Twitter and Facebook, or even arrange a meet up to read their passages with friends. YouVersion will also switch the default online Bible version to the King James Version.
“I believe this global Bible reading event shows just how far we have come and where we are going with access and interaction with the Bible,” Gruenewald said.
Earlier this year, YouVersion teamed up with Zondervan and Biblica to give away 1 million digital Bibles in 400 hours as part of the KJV Bible’s 400th Anniversary.
YouVersion and the Bible App were created by a team at LifeChurch.tv in Edmond, Okla., to help increase access and engagement with the Bible. YouVersion.com launched in September 2007 and the Bible app launched in July 2008. YouVersion and its mobile app also allow users to bookmark verses, share Scripture through email, Twitter, and Facebook, journal their thoughts and more.
Featuring more than 100 different translations and nearly 40 languages, YouVersion was created to help people with busy, on-the-go lifestyles read the Bible at anytime and in any place.
Since its creation, YouVersion has remained in the top five downloaded apps in the reference category and is the No. 1 downloaded Bible on iTunes. The Bible App has been listed in the all-time top 10 apps for the iPad and the top 50 apps for the iPhone. The app has been installed on millions of mobile devices and users have spent billions of minutes using the Bible App to engage with Scripture. For additional information, visit http://www.YouVersion.com.
Note to Editors: For information or to arrange an interview, please contact Julie Shutley or Lauren Williams at 972.267.1111, julie@alarryross.com or lauren@alarryross.com.
Dan Wooding, 70, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 47 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren who all live in the UK. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS) and was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. He now hosts the weekly “Front Page Radio” show on KWVE in Southern California which is also carried on the Calvary Radio Network throughout the United States. The program is also aired in Great Britain on Calvary Chapel Radio UK. Besides this, Wooding is a host for His Channel Live, which is carried via the Internet to some 200 countries. You can follow Dan on Facebook under his name there or at ASSIST News Service. He is the author of some 44 books. Two of the latest include his autobiography, “From Tabloid to Truth”, which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, press this link. Wooding, who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, has also recently released his first novel “Red Dagger” which is available this link.
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