PSALM 119 ASSOCIATION INC

In China, there is only 1 trained pastor for every 60,000 house church believers. Our organization is translating The HELIOS Projects in Mandarin so we can train more pastors for the Chinese church. One recent study suggested that of the 2.2 to 3.4 million pastors in the world today, only 5% have had any formal training. The goal of The HELIOS Projects is to address this critical need.

There are three portions to our HELIOS projects: preparation (create content, translate content, professional recording), production (the production of the HELIOS devices [solar, flash, print, or app], and distribution. We currently have under contract the preparation portion in Afrikaans, Creole, English, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili and Thai. With regard to distribution, we have a strategy for each country or region to have a country coordinator who will determine how many HELIOS units and what device will best serve his/her people. Anyone may purchase the units, but the strategy provides the units at "market basket" pricing. This essentially means the $120 unit will be provided to pastors and Christian leaders at whatever the market in their country will bear. The market basket price is determined by how much money a family of four needs to live for one month. That amount is compared to the U.S. amount and the price of the HELIOS units are determined accordingly.

The teaching content, which takes one full year to produce, is done by well-known, international Bible teacher Dr. Woodrow Kroll. For 23 years Dr. Kroll served as President and Senior Bible Teacher of the international radio program Back to the Bible. His daily international audience was 10,000,000 listeners. Author of 50 books, upon retirement from Back to the Bible, Woodrow Kroll began his "retirement ministry" of creating The HELIOS Projects.

The translators of the projects are highly qualified Christians.

Financially, our ministry has been blessed by God in remarkable ways. In the first two years of operation, starting from scratch with nothing, God provided through individual donors who saw the amazing potential of The HELIOS Projects nearly $1,000,000 USD in gifts. Several Foundations have provided grants to us.

We are in a very strong position to accomplish the goals of our ministry.

We have two projects in the program:
1). HELIOS CT "Talking Thru the Christian faith" [a conversational approach to teaching Christian theology -- not teacher and student but "two friends sitting across an imaginary table talking about what we Christians believe and why we believe it."]
2). HELIOS GS "Telling God's Story" [retelling 372 stories from the Bible with spiritual insights and practical applications drawn from each story. This is especially for oral learners.]

HELIOS CT is completed in English, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish. The content is currently being translated in Afrikaans, Creole, Russian and Swahili.

HELIOS GS is completed in English and Spanish. Soon the process for translating it in Portuguese and Swahili will begin. When HELIOS CT is finished in Afrikaans, Creole, Russian and Thai, then work will begin in those languages to translate HELIOS GS.