Grandfather’s Bible Audio Gift Inspires Generations Online
A grandfather’s thoughtful gift will touch his family for generations – an audio recording of him reading the entire Bible. A video of him giving a flash drive containing the recording to each of his grandchildren has been viewed more than a million times.
“That’s the Bible — the whole Bible read,” the grandfather can be seen telling his grandchild, according to “Church Leaders.” “And also a bunch of pictures from Facebook that I posted.”
Each grandchild received a different colored flash drive containing the MP3 files. The grandfather said that the project took him more than a year to complete. “No way!” one child said. “You actually did it?”
Tiffany Shabazz, the granddaughter who posted the video, said she has received numerous requests for the grandfather’s voice recordings.
“God is doing something right now in our family,” she said. “He’s showing us what way to go. We are up to needing 118 copies for people all over the world. We shared one video of Grandpa giving us such a personal meaningful gift, and now everyone wants a copy. I can’t believe how many people this has reached. God is definitely in this story.”
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Reading the Bible from Genesis to Revelation with no breaks takes at least 75 to 80 hours, and even professional voice actors typically require two to three hours of studio time to produce one finished hour due to retakes. Voice actor Max McLean told “Crosswalk Headlines” that recording an audio is “very time consuming. I would probably say I would maybe spend 150 hours in the studio to get those 80 hours.”
Comments have flooded in across social media, with some describing the recordings as “a generational heirloom gift” and others expressing that they feel inspired to offer a similar gift to their own children or grandchildren.
“I would have cried, I’d give anything to have a parent or grandparent gift me their voice reading the Bible,” another person said. “Wat a lovely gift to give. This was certainly a labor of love.”
–Alan Goforth
