LILONGWE, MALAWI | 8 NOVEMBER 2026

After 60 days of listening, reading, watching and sharing God’s Word, the Bible Langa 60 Days Experience reached its celebratory finale in Lilongwe on Sunday, 8 November 2026, marking the completion of an ambitious Urban Scripture Engagement Campaign that brought churches together around one simple challenge: to make engagement with God’s Word a daily way of life. Developed by the Bible Society of Malawi in partnership with Faith Comes By Hearing, Bible Langa was designed to explore new and relevant ways of engaging urban Christians with Scripture. Rather than relying on Bible reading alone, the campaign combined digital, audio and visual Scripture engagement over three 20-day phases.

At the heart of the initiative was the newly developed Bible Langa App, complemented by Proclaimer audio devices and Acclaimer audio-visual devices, giving participants different ways of encountering the Word of God. The vision from the beginning was simple but ambitious: to help urban Christians develop a consistent habit of hearing, reading, watching, discussing and living God’s Word.

From an Idea to a Movement

Preparations began months before the September launch. Church leaders were mobilised and oriented on Bible Langa as an urban Scripture enrichment and evangelism initiative that could strengthen individual faith while deepening engagement with Scripture within their congregations. The scale of preparation reflected the ambition of the campaign. Bible Langa was therefore never intended to be simply another church event. It was conceived as an Urban Scripture Engagement Campaign, exploring what could happen when the Church, technology, local-language Scriptures and accessible digital resources came together around the discipline of daily engagement with God’s Word.

60 Days, Three Ways of Experiencing Scripture

The campaign formally began on 1 September 2026 and unfolded through three 20-day phases. Participants encountered Scripture through three complementary experiences: digital engagement through the Bible Langa App, audio listening through Proclaimers, and audio-visual engagement through Acclaimers. Technology played an important role in making this possible.

The Bible Langa App, developed by Faith Comes By Hearing, gives users access to Scripture in several Malawian languages alongside English, including Chichewa, Chitumbuka, Ellomwe, Tonga and Yao. Its features enable users to read and listen to Scripture, access Bible study questions, highlight passages, take notes, bookmark verses and share Scripture with others. This approach is particularly relevant to an urban audience increasingly accustomed to accessing information through smartphones and other digital platforms. The campaign recognised a simple reality: people encounter God’s Word differently. Some learn best by reading. Others connect more deeply by hearing. Others engage when Scripture is experienced visually or explored within a group. Bible Langa sought to bring these experiences together.

The Church at the Centre

Technology, however, was only the tool. At the heart of Bible Langa were the local churches and the men, women and young people who committed themselves to the 60-day journey. Rather than Scripture engagement being an occasional activity, participants were challenged to establish a daily rhythm around God’s Word. Churches provided communities in which people could listen together, encourage one another, discuss Scripture and reflect on how God’s Word should shape their everyday lives. The church-centred model was important because Bible Langa was not principally about distributing devices or introducing a new application. It sought to move people from access to engagement, from engagement to understanding, and ultimately from understanding to transformation. It also demonstrated how innovation and technology can be used to take God’s Word to a new generation while challenging Christians not only to hear the Word, but also to become doers of the Word.

A Celebration, But Not the End

Sunday’s finale brought the 60-day journey full circle. What had begun months earlier with planning, mobilisation of churches, training of facilitators, development of the Bible Langa App and preparation of Scripture resources culminated in a celebration of the churches and participants who had journeyed through the experience together. Yet the greater measure of Bible Langa’s success will not be found in the closing ceremony, certificates presented or the number of devices distributed. It will be found in what happens after the 60 days.

• Will participants continue listening to Scripture in their homes?
• Will families continue discussing God’s Word?
• Will young people continue opening Bible Langa on their phones?
• Will churches continue creating spaces where people can hear and explore Scripture together?
• And, most importantly, will hearing God’s Word translate into living God’s Word?

These questions lie at the heart of the campaign’s longer-term impact.

Taking God’s Word Beyond the Printed Page

Bible Langa demonstrates how the Bible Society of Malawi’s mission is responding to changes in the way people, particularly those living in urban communities, access and consume information. Printed Scriptures remain fundamental to the Society’s ministry. But audio, video and mobile technologies are opening additional pathways through which people can encounter God’s Word. For someone travelling to work, Scripture can be heard. For a family gathered at home, it can be listened to and discussed together. For a young person accustomed to a smartphone, Scripture can be read, heard, studied and shared from the same device.

The partnership between the Bible Society of Malawi and Faith Comes By Hearing demonstrates what can happen when traditional Bible ministry embraces digital innovation without losing sight of its central purpose: connecting people meaningfully with the Word of God. The local-language dimension makes that engagement even more powerful, giving people opportunities to encounter God’s Word in languages through which they think, pray, worship and experience everyday life.

From 60 Days to a Lifetime

Perhaps the most powerful measure of Bible Langa’s impact is found not only in statistics or technology, but in the experiences of individual participants. For Yvonne Mpakesambo of Redeemed Charismatic Church, the 60-day experience became more than completing the different phases of a campaign. She attested to the transformation the campaign brought to her spiritual life and the personal spiritual growth she experienced through sustained engagement with God’s Word. Her experience reflects what Bible Langa ultimately set out to achieve: not simply greater access to Scripture, but a deeper and more personal relationship with the Word of God.

The conclusion of Bible Langa 60 Days is therefore less an ending than an invitation. For participating churches, it is an invitation to continue nurturing communities centred on Scripture. For participants, it is an invitation to carry forward the habits developed during the 60 days. For partners and supporters of Bible ministry, Bible Langa provides a glimpse of what sustained investment in Scripture engagement can achieve when the local church, local languages, digital technology, audio-visual Scripture and community participation come together.The devices may eventually be switched off. The campaign banners will come down. The certificates will be taken home. But the Word that has been heard must continue to be lived. That is perhaps the most important legacy of Bible Langa 60 Days. Because ultimately, the challenge was never simply about engaging with a programme for 60 days. It was about beginning a lifelong encounter with God’s Word.