Teaches The Bible In Spanish By Radio

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30745, 8 May 1965, Page 2

Teaches The Bible In Spanish By Radio

Helping to prepare Bible correspondence courses and to give Bible tuition in Spanish by radio to 18,000 students in 35 countries is the work of Mrs Faith Turner.

Mrs Turner works with the Bible Institute of the Andes, one of the many departments of the Voice Of The Andes, in Quito, Ecuador.

Mrs Turner left Christchurch last evening to go to Australia after spending a month in New Zealand talking to churches and groups of the work of the Voice of the Andes.

"The Voice of the Andes brings programmes to New Zealand every evening on short-wave,” said Mrs Turner yesterday. ‘There are 170 foreigners and more than that number of Ecuadorians working with the Voice of the Andes. It is an inter-denominational faith mission,” she said. "The Voice of the Andes, which has been established since 1931, was the first mis- . sionary broadcasting station >in the world and our own telecasting station, HCJB, is the first telecasting mission ■ station.”

Mrs Turner has been working with the Voice of the Andes in Quito for 27 years

with her husband, Mr D. Turner, who writes the Bible correspondence courses in Spanish and has broadcasting programmes. “We went to South America on our honeymoon and have been there ever since,” said Mrs Turner. “We spent 16 years working with the Orinoco River Mission, in Venezuela, before going to Ecuador.”

Mrs Turner speaks fluent Spanish. “It is a very rhythmical language and beautifully spoken, and both these aspects made it very easy to learn,” she said. Mrs Turner has four children and three are missionaries. One is with the Orinoco River Mission, one with the Voice of the Andes and the third with Wycliffe Bible Translators in the Ecuadorian jungles working with the Jivaro tribe, known as the head-shrinking tribe.