How do you buy 48* Creole Bibles for Haiti at a cost of over $1,440? One or two at a time!
I published this post soliciting help purchasing Bibles on Oct 11 and they've been trickling in since. Mostly one Bible at a time. Sometimes two, a couple of times, four at a time.
They were purchased predominantly by people from Oakbrook but I know of at least one from a friend in West Virginia. They were purchased by 20-somethings to senior citizens and every age in between.
If people say that Facebook and Twitter are only noise, I have 48* reasons that say this isn't so. It was through social media that I was able to get the message out and how people responded.
We will take many of these with us this Saturday. I expect that we have enough Bibles to send some with subsequent trips heading down in the next few months.
It's important to note that there is a genuine desire to know God and His Word among the Haitian people. These will be highly appreciated and prized.
Cynics often ask, "Why take Bibles to starving people in Haiti?"
The answer is simple. We are trying to minister to them holistically--to their hunger for food and their hunger for God. Missions isn't base needs OR spiritual needs. It's base needs AND spiritual needs because people hunger for both. People need food to get through today and hope to want to rise tomorrow.
A huge heart-felt thanks to everyone who bought a Creole Bible!
One more request: If you bought one, pray for the future recipient of it...
Our team will be there Nov 12-21. If you'd like to pray for us:
Jason & Cole Braun
Didi Petty
Brad Downing
Bruce Donaldson
Chris & Linda Herr
Shelia Miller
Julie Baldini
(of the "Flying Baldinis" circus fame)
Maggie Duncan
Monty Sanders
Joel Larison
Rex Byers
Morgan Young
