2024 Impact Report | Serving seniors in 50 languages

CBS has long recognized the spiritual and emotional needs of vulnerable elderly in long-term care. In 2020, CBS launched audio Scriptures to support them, offering audio Bibles and music on user-friendly audio devices.

• Content is now available in 50 languages in Canada.
• Distribution includes hospices, long-term care wards in hospitals and churches with a direct ministry to the elderly.
• CBS commissioned a version of the MegaVoice that is easier for those with cognitive challenges.
• CBS is assisting MegaVoice USA in introducing a similar program there.

Learn more about CBS’ initiative to provide Scriptures to vulnerable elderly.

VANCOUVER CHURCH INVESTS IN CHINESE-SPEAKING SENIORS

In 2023, Pentecostal Tabernacle Vancouver (PTV) partnered with CBS to fund and distribute a large number of MegaVoice devices for Mandarin and Cantonese-speaking seniors.

To start, PTV gave a $50,000 gift. This enabled securing the best possible prices for the technology, hire voice actors, secure studio space, prepare instructions, and design and print labels. Recording and production began in June 2023. By April 2024, CBS started distributing the units.

PTV also established a $1 million endowment to support the CBS program. Their visionary investment will continue to make the MegaVoice devices loaded with Scriptures and instrumental music available to senior Chinese Canadians, offering them comfort and spiritual guidance in languages closest to their heart.